We performed a comparison between GitLab and Spinnaker 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."The solution's service delivery model is fantastic."
"Of all available products, it was the easiest to use and easy to install."
"The SaaS setup is impressive, and it has DAST solutioning."
"I find the features and version control history to be most valuable for our development workflow. These aspects provide us with a clear view of changes and help us manage requests efficiently."
"GitLab's best features are continuous integration and fast deployment."
"It is a speedy platform compared to the others I have used. I have also enjoyed using the platform as this solution offers a good user experience."
"The most valuable feature of GitLab is the ability to upload scripts and make changes when needed and then reupload them. Additionally, the solution is user-friendly."
"Key features allow creation of well-presented Wiki that includes ideas, development, and domains."
"The most valuable feature of Spinnaker is the rollback."
"There is a good community around the product that makes troubleshooting possible."
"The pricing model of GitLab is an issue for me."
"The documentation is confusing."
"GitLab can improve by integrating with more tools, such as servers with Docker."
"I would like to see static analysis also embedded in GitLab. That would also help us. If there's something that it does internally by GitLab and then that is already tied up with your pipeline and then it can tell you that you're coding is good or your code is not great. Based on that, it would pass or fail. That should be streamlined. I would think that would help to a greater extent, in terms of having one solution rather than depending on multiple vendors."
"The initial setup was quite challenging because it takes some time to understand how to pull out or push the code."
"We would like to generate document pages from the sources."
"There is a need to improve or adopt AI into the ecosystem like a co-pilot, which Microsoft has done with GitHub."
"There is room for improvement in GitLab Agents."
"Log-wise, we need to understand why something has failed so that we can understand and try to fix it the moment the issue is reported. The solution could use more robust monitoring."
"Spinnaker's configuration setup is too complicated and should be made easy."
GitLab is ranked 2nd in Release Automation with 70 reviews while Spinnaker is ranked 7th in Release Automation with 2 reviews. GitLab is rated 8.6, while Spinnaker is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Spinnaker writes "Good integrations, a helpful user community, and good reliability". GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Bamboo, SonarQube, AWS CodePipeline and Tekton, whereas Spinnaker is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, AWS CodeDeploy, UrbanCode Deploy and Octopus Deploy. See our GitLab vs. Spinnaker report.
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