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Executive Summary
Updated on Mar 6, 2024

We compared GitLab and Tekton based on our user's reviews in several parameters.

Users find GitLab to offer competitive pricing, flexible licensing options, and positive ROI, with room for improvement in user interface, speed, and performance. They appreciate robust version control features and strong customer support. On the other hand, Tekton is praised for its ease of use, reliable customer service, and seamless integration, with users highlighting the customizable features and positive impact on productivity and efficiency. Both tools have varying feedback on the time required for deployment and setup, showing differences in user experiences.

Features: GitLab stands out with its robust version control capabilities, comprehensive issue tracking system, and seamless collaboration tools. On the other hand, Tekton excels in its ease of use, extensive customization options, and great reliability.

Pricing and ROI: In terms of setup cost, users find both GitLab and Tekton to be easy and straightforward. GitLab offers flexible licensing options for individuals and businesses, while Tekton users have not expressed any difficulties or dissatisfaction with licensing., The ROI for GitLab has been positively rewarding, providing users with valuable investment for their projects. Tekton has also shown positive ROI, improving productivity, efficiency, accuracy, cost savings, and customer satisfaction. Users appreciate its versatility and ease of use.

Room for Improvement: Some areas for improvement in the GitLab product include its user interface and navigation, performance and speed for larger projects, project management features, and the code review process. Meanwhile, users of Tekton expressed the need for improvements in certain aspects of the product.

Deployment and customer support: The user reviews for GitLab and Tekton differ in terms of how they define and separate the deployment and setup phases. Some users see them as separate phases, while others consider them as the same period., In terms of customer service and support, GitLab's product is highly praised for its prompt assistance, effective troubleshooting, and helpful guidance. They are known for going above and beyond to resolve issues and have a strong community. On the other hand, Tekton's customer service is also highly praised for its promptness, helpfulness, reliability, and efficiency. Both products ensure a positive experience for customers.

The summary above is based on 53 interviews we conducted recently with GitLab and Tekton users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.

To learn more, read our detailed GitLab vs. Tekton Report (Updated: March 2024).
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"CI/CD is valuable for me.""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.""CI/CD and GitLab scanning are the most valuable features.""The most valuable features of GitLab are the review, patch repo, and plans are in YAML.""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.""The most valuable functionality of GitLab, for me, is the DevOps. Besides the normal source control based on Git, I find the Auto DevOps features most important in the solution.""CI/CD is very good. The version control system is also good. These are the two features that we use.""The user interface is really good so that helps with huge teams who need to collaborate."

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"Tekton is serverless and runs on OpenShift, and we leverage Tekton to take full advantage of the Kubernetes features such as running and scaling the solution in PaaS.""Tekton is an orchestrator. It provides seamless integration for our pipelines. It offers robust support for executing tasks within the pipeline, allowing us to set up and run pipelines quickly.""Its seamless integration with Kubernetes, being built on top of it and utilizing Custom Resource Definitions, ensures a smooth experience within Kubernetes environments exclusively."

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Cons
"Expand features to match other tools such as a static code analysis tool so third-party integrations are not required.""The tool should include a feature that helps to edit the code directly.""Their RBAC is role-based access, which is fine but not very good.""It is a little complex to set up the pipelines within the solution.""The solution does not have many built-in functions or variables so scripting is required.""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.""It would be better if there weren't any outages. There are occasions where we usually see a lot of outages using GitLab. It happens at least once a week or something like that. Whatever pipelines you're running, to check the logs, you need to have a different set of tools like Argus or something like that. If you have pipelines running on GitLab, you need a separate service deployed to view the logs, which is kind of a pain. If the logs can be used conveniently on GitLab, that would be definitely helpful. I'm not talking about the CI/CD pipelines but the back-end services and microservices deployed over GitLab. To view the logs for those microservices, you need to have separate log viewers, which is kind of a pain.""GitLab can improve by integrating with more tools, such as servers with Docker."

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"There might be occasional issues with storage or cluster-level logging, which can affect production.""Configuring Tekton requires a deep understanding of Kubernetes, which can be difficult for developers.""It tends to occupy a significant amount of disk space on the node, which could potentially pose challenges."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "I think that we pay approximately $100 USD per month."
  • "The price is okay."
  • "It seems reasonable. Our IT team manages the licenses."
  • "Its price is fine. It is on the cheaper side and not expensive. You have to pay additionally for GitLab CI/CD minutes. Initially, we used the free version. When we ran out of GitLab minutes, we migrated to the paid version."
  • "It is very expensive. We can't bear it now, and we have to find another solution. We have a yearly subscription in which we can increase the number of licenses, but we have to pay at the end of the year."
  • "I don't mind the price because I use the free version."
  • "We are using its free version, and we are evaluating its Premium version. Its Ultimate version is very expensive."
  • "The price of GitLab could be better, it is expensive."
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  • "It is entirely open source and free of charge."
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    Top Answer:The solution makes the CI/CD pipelines easy to execute.
    Top Answer:The tool should include a feature that helps to edit the code directly.
    Top Answer:When you are evaluating tools for automating your own GitOps-based CI/CD workflow, it is important to keep your requirements and use cases in mind. Tekton deployment is complex and it is not very easy… more »
    Top Answer:Its seamless integration with Kubernetes, being built on top of it and utilizing Custom Resource Definitions, ensures a smooth experience within Kubernetes environments exclusively.
    Top Answer:It tends to occupy a significant amount of disk space on the node, which could potentially pose challenges. This aspect could be enhanced for better efficiency. Additionally, the build time… more »
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    Overview

    GitLab is a complete DevOps platform that enables teams to collaborate and deliver software faster. 

    It provides a single application for the entire DevOps lifecycle, from planning and development to testing, deployment, and monitoring. 

    With GitLab, teams can streamline their workflows, automate processes, and improve productivity.

    Tekton is a powerful yet flexible Kubernetes-native open-source framework for creating continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) systems. It lets you build, test, and deploy across multiple cloud providers or on-premises systems by abstracting away the underlying implementation details.

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    1. NASA  2. IBM  3. Sony  4. Alibaba  5. CERN  6. Siemens  7. Volkswagen  8. ING  9. Ticketmaster  10. SpaceX  11. Adobe  12. Intuit  13. Autodesk  14. Rakuten  15. Unity Technologies  16. Pandora  17. Electronic Arts  18. Nordstrom  19. Verizon  20. Comcast  21. Philips  22. Deutsche Telekom  23. Orange  24. Fujitsu  25. Ericsson  26. Nokia  27. General Electric  28. Cisco  29. Accenture  30. Deloitte  31. PwC  32. KPMG
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    GitLab is ranked 1st in Build Automation with 49 reviews while Tekton is ranked 3rd in Build Automation with 3 reviews. GitLab is rated 8.6, while Tekton is rated 6.4. The top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tekton writes "Provides seamless integration for pipelines, allowing easy setup and execution of tasks but working with YAML files in Tekton can be challenging to modify ". GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline, SonarQube and TeamCity, whereas Tekton is most compared with GitHub Actions, Harness, Jenkins, Travis CI and CircleCI. See our GitLab vs. Tekton report.

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