We performed a comparison between GitLab and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Release Automation solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I have found the most valuable features of GitLab are the GitClone, GitPush, GitPull, GitMatch, GitMit, GitCommit, and GitStatus."
"The most valuable features of GitLab are the CI/CD pipeline and code management."
"The dashboard and interface make it easy to use."
"GitLab's best features are maintenance, branch integration, and development infrastructure."
"GitLab is a solution for source code management, container registry, pipelines, testing, and deployment."
"It is scalable."
"This is a scalable solution. We had around 200 users working with it."
"As a developer, this solution is useful as a repository holder because most of the POC projects that we have are on GitLab."
"The most valuable features of the solution are automation and patching."
"It has improved our organization through provisioning and security hardening. When we do get a new VM, we have been able to bring on a provisioned machine in less than a day. This morning alone, I provisioned two machines within an hour. I am talking about hardening, installing antivirus software on it, and creating user accounts because the Playbooks were predesigned. From the time we got the servers to the actual hand-off, it takes less than an hour. We are talking about having the servers actually authenticate Red Hat Satellites and run the yum updates. All of that can be done within an hour."
"Feature-wise, the solution is a good open-source software offering broad support. Also, it's reliable."
"I like the fact that Ansible is agentless."
"It increases our company's efficiency, automating all the simple tasks which used to take hours of somebody's time."
"It was easy to read and learn. It is a YAML-based syntax, which makes it easily understand and pick up."
"The playbooks and the code the solution uses are quite useful."
"Ansible Tower provides a GUI, which is an enhancement, and a well-liked feature by operation teams."
"It is a little complex to set up the pipelines within the solution."
"I would like configuration of a YML file to be done via UI rather than a code file."
"The integration and storage capabilities could be better."
"This solution could be improved by adding modifications such as slack notifications."
"It can be free for commercial use."
"Merge conflicts and repository maintenance could improve. If there is someone new to the system they would not know if there is a conflict."
"The user interface could be more user-friendly. We do most of our operations through the website interface but it could be better."
"GitLab can improve by integrating with more tools, such as servers with Docker."
"It is a little slow on the network side because every time you call a module, it's initiating an SSH or an API call to a network device, and it just slows things down."
"The tool should allow us to create infrastructure. It has everything when it comes to management, but it lacks the provisioning aspect."
"For Ansible Tower, there are three tiers with ten nodes. I would like them to expand those ten nodes to 20, because ten nodes is not enough to test on."
"It would be helpful to have templates for common configurations. It would make it much easier and faster rather than creating a whole script. The templates would decrease the learning curve as well."
"The solution is slightly expensive, and its pricing could be improved."
"Performance has been an issue on larger environments, but it has gotten a lot better over the past two years."
"The solution should add a nice self-service portal."
"On the Dashboard, when you view a template run, it shows all the output. There is a search filter, but it would be nice to able to select one server in that run and then see all that output from just that one server, instead of having to do the search on that one server and find the results."
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GitLab is ranked 2nd in Release Automation with 70 reviews while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is ranked 3rd in Release Automation with 58 reviews. GitLab is rated 8.6, while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform writes "Capable of broad integrations with easy-to-operate infrastructure and user controls". GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline and SonarQube, whereas Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is most compared with Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager, VMware Aria Automation, Microsoft Azure DevOps and Microsoft Intune. See our GitLab vs. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform report.
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