We performed a comparison between Digital.ai Release and GitLab based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Build Automation solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution can apply one template across multiple applications."
"The orchestration, building the release, and then just executing it and managing that pipeline — the orchestration capabilities are great for that."
"The most valuable feature of Digital.ai Release is its ability to communicate with various deployment systems, such as XLD and batch deployments, as well as integrate with tools, such as Flyway and Bamboo. We use Bamboo as our build orchestrator, and Digital.ai Release also integrates with Jira, another Atlassian solution. These capabilities make it a powerful tool for managing workflow, test automation, and other processes."
"We use the Git repository and tagging feature. We are a product-based company and use this solution to move to a forward or backward tag."
"The code merging capability is something that we use very frequently."
"The initial setup of GitLab is pretty simple, with no complications."
"The most valuable features of GitLab are the review, patch repo, and plans are in YAML."
"The most valuable features of Gitlab are integration with CIE and the ability to rapidly deploy solutions, projects, and applications. It is very easy to use, and there are no complaints."
"It scales well."
"It is very flexible and easy because you can store data on cloud."
"CI/CD and GitLab scanning are the most valuable features."
"The solution is a little bit expensive."
"The backfill could be improved, we could automate that. Right now it's subjective — it's up to the lead developer's memory to remember to backfill."
"Digital.ai Release could improve by having a better plugin that works with Guardian that we use for mainframe migrations. If there could be an interface or plugin for Guardian that would be beneficial."
"GitLab could improve by having more plugins and better user-friendliness."
"Perhaps the integration could be better."
"As a partner, sometimes it's difficult to get support. They have a really complicated procedure for their support."
"Reporting could be improved."
"GitLab would be improved with the addition of templates for deployment on local PCs."
"It can be free for commercial use."
"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."
"Expand features to match other tools such as a static code analysis tool so third-party integrations are not required."
Digital.ai Release is ranked 9th in Build Automation with 3 reviews while GitLab is ranked 1st in Build Automation with 68 reviews. Digital.ai Release is rated 8.6, while GitLab is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Digital.ai Release writes "Effectively automates deployments and applies one template across applications". On the other hand, the top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". Digital.ai Release is most compared with Jenkins, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Digital.ai Deploy, IBM Rational Build Forge and Bamboo, whereas GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline, SonarQube and Tekton. See our Digital.ai Release vs. GitLab report.
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