We performed a comparison between GitLab and Harness based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about GitLab, Jenkins, Google and others in Build Automation."We're only using the basic features of GitLab and haven't used any advanced features. The solution works fine, so that's what we like about GitLab. We're party using GitHub and GitLab. We have a GitHub server, while we use GitLab locally or only within our team, and it works okay. We don't have any significant problems with the solution. We also found the straightforward setup, stability, and scalability of GitLab valuable."
"Of all available products, it was the easiest to use and easy to install."
"GitLab is very useful for pipelines, continuous integration, and continuous deployment. It is also stable."
"The initial setup of GitLab is pretty simple, with no complications."
"We have seen a couple of merge requests or pull requests raised in GitLab. I see the interface, the way it shows the difference between the two source codes, that it is easy for anyone to do the review and then accept the request; the pull request is the valuable feature."
"Git hosting has an integration with ACD which is why we liked this solution in the first place."
"We like that we can have an all-encompassing product and don't have to implement different solutions."
"The best thing is that as the developers work on separate tasks, all of the code goes there and the other team members don't have to wait on each other to finish."
"It's a highly customizable DevOps tool."
"I would like to see better integration with project management tools such as Jira."
"In the free version, when a merge request is raised, there is no way to enforce certain rules. We can't enforce that this merge request must be reviewed or approved by two or three people in the team before it is pushed to the master branch. That's why we are exploring using some agents."
"The integration and storage capabilities could be better."
"We'd always like to see better pricing on the product."
"Their RBAC is role-based access, which is fine but not very good."
"We'd like to see better integration with the Atlassian ecosystem."
"The solution does not have many built-in functions or variables so scripting is required."
"We are having a few problems integrating with Jira at the moment, which is something that our IT department is investigating."
"There's also room for improvement in debugging pipeline issues, which can sometimes become complex."
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GitLab is ranked 1st in Build Automation with 70 reviews while Harness is ranked 12th in Build Automation with 1 review. GitLab is rated 8.6, while Harness is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Harness writes "Provides a good graphical interface, but the initial setup process needs improvement ". GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline, SonarQube and Tekton, whereas Harness is most compared with Tekton, Jenkins, Bamboo, TeamCity and Cloudability.
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