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Overall, I would rate it an eight out of ten. I am very satisfied with it.
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Onur Aktuğ
Software Test Manager at ASELSAN
GitLab is a wholly complete solution and it is for this reason that I can recommend it to other users.
I would rate GitLab a nine out of ten.
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reviewer2254248
Principle Product Manager at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
GitLab has improved our CI/CD processes in software dependency management. It handles conflicts between versions seamlessly, such as when merging different features into the main branch. With GitLab, there are no conflicts in the code itself. Versioning is also efficiently managed within GitLab, allowing us to easily track the latest main branches, previous branches, and releases. For example, if a software depends on specific versions, it's easily traceable using GitLab. One of the most significant advantages is the built-in DTS, which supports ample file storage. This capability allows us to store 30-40 gigabytes of repository sizes.
The code diffs available in GitLab show the differences between the older version and the current one, indicating what has been added, deleted, or modified across the codebase. This helps you understand which portions of the code have changed within a particular file, such as a Python script, aiding in traceability and version management.
The merge request feature is standard and available even in GitHub, making it accessible on most Git platforms. It is one of the fundamental features of GitLab, a free product.
Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.
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March 2024
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Prabu T
Senior Project Manager at Wipro Limited
My advice would be it's a very good tool for developers, especially those spread across the globe. It has a very good interface for any pull request or code review. The CI/CD pipeline is also easily built in, so we can easily build and deploy it into various environments. So that eases the developer's and the production ops team's life.
Overall, I would rate the solution a ten out of ten.
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Keith Hodges
Environmental engineer at Coventry Building Society
GitLab is a good solution. Overall, I would rate it a nine out of ten. I would say it's better than GitHub.
View full review »I rate GitLab a seven out of ten.
View full review »I rate GitLab eight out of 10. It's a good solution for DevOps and managing Ripple. It's possibly the most complete DevOps and DevSecOps platform. You can help users to make wonderful stuff with their source code and applications. GitLab supports many types of source code like Python, Ruby, etc. It's great software.
View full review »I would recommend using GitLab. It provides a repository and API, allowing you to create deployment pipelines. I rate it a ten out of ten.
View full review »I would tell those planning to use the solution to try developing their own scripts in GitLab and then try to download them from the repository there. You build your knowledge while helping others as well.
I rate the overall solution a nine out of ten.
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AK13
DevOps Engineer at a insurance company with 5,001-10,000 employees
I recommend the solution and rate it a seven out of ten.
View full review »I am my company’s GitLab administrator. Many features we need are available in Enterprise Edition. If we say that we do not have enough features in GitLab Community Edition, GitLab might just ask us to upgrade to Enterprise Edition. Overall, I rate the product a nine out of ten.
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Anton Makarevich
DevOps/Cloud Lead at a comms service provider with 1-10 employees
I would give this solution a ten out of ten. There are a couple of caveats, but compared to other products, GitLab is certainly the leading solution in the market right now.
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VivekTripathi
Senior Test Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
My advice for others looking into this product is to go for it. GitLab is the future. There are some alternates, like Stash and Bitbucket, that have the same concept, but GitLab is one of the most widely used version control systems. It's easy to use.
I would rate this solution as a nine out of ten.
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Duy Chu
DevOps manager at a engineering company with 201-500 employees
Overall, I would rate GitLab around eight or nine out of ten. I highly recommend it to other users for both company purposes and personal projects. GitLab provides a solid starting point for learning and working efficiently, making it a valuable tool for developers.
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I'd recommend the solution to others. I'd rate it eight out of ten.
View full review »It's a great solution. So I would recommend it to those who want to use it. I rate the overall solution a ten out of ten.
View full review »I always use the latest version of GitLab. I don't check the version number.
I'd recommend the solution to others.
I'd rate it a ten out of ten. I'm happy with its capabilities.
View full review »I'm using the latest version of GitLab.
My company has a small team and only has six users of GitLab.
On a scale of one to ten, where one is the worst and ten is the best, my rating for GitLab, in general, is nine. My company likes the solution very much, especially over Azure DevOps.
I would recommend GitLab for others to use.
My company is a customer of GitLab.
View full review »One person can do the maintenance of the solution.
My advice to others is for them to use GitLab for managing their code.
I rate GitLab a nine out of ten.
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Boulat_Ashimov
IT Processes Methodologist at Gysan Gmart
We are customers and end-users.
As far as I know, we are using the on-premise version. There are two versions of GitLab - the on-premise and the cloud version. We are using on-premise. As far as I know, we also keep making sure it's up-to-date.
I'd rate the solution nine out of ten.
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Slaven Batnozic
CTO at Dokument IT d.o.o.
GitLab is a product managed by the department of programmers in our company, and I am not much involved in it.
I recommend the solution to those planning to use it.
I rate the overall product a ten out of ten.
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reviewer1411572
Researcher at the InfoCloud Research Group at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
GitLab offers various services, and it's important to understand which ones you truly need. Service providers might have different capabilities, and compatibility with your existing devices can be a critical issue. We haven't faced many problems with network compatibility or duplicated services so far.
If I could go back in time, I would recommend using GitLab primarily as a reliable repository. For additional features like scanning and monitoring, it might be beneficial to explore other specialized solutions.
Overall, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten.
View full review »I recommend the solution and rate it an eight out of ten.
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Letarik Terefe
IT Project Management /Research & Development Team Leader at Ethiopian Roads Administration
Using GitLab is important to help provide a more secure and reliable environment for developers working with information in the cloud. GitLab brings a level of safety. I would rate GitLab a ten out of ten.
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Pradeep Singh
DevOps Lead at Adidas
I would rate GitLab nine out of ten.
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reviewer1251984
Tool Manager at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
I would rate it a nine out of 10.
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reviewer1430709
Works at a real estate/law firm with 10,001+ employees
I would recommend this solution to others. The product is fine, but you have to do the integration with different pipelines.
I would rate GitLab a seven out of 10.
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Gizem Mercan
Cloud Architect at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
I would advise others to follow best practices because they are useful for each case. If you have a problem, it can be easily solved by other people if you follow the best practices.
I would rate GitLab a nine out of ten.
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KulbhushanMayer
Co Founder and Technical Architect at Think NYX Technologies LLP
I rate this solution an eight out of ten because it is a good tool.
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Cldengin57
Cloud Engineer at a transportation company with 10,001+ employees
We use the public cloud deployment model.
I would rate the solution nine out of ten.
View full review »I'm a developer, so I write all the code from scratch, but I don't use predefined platforms. I've been using GitLab and Visual Studio, though.
As GitLab is only used within my team, only five people use it.
My team uses GitLab almost every day, then when a project is complete, my team pushes it back into GitHub.
My team is an end-user of GitLab.
Regarding recommending GitLab to others, I'm a developer of data science solutions, so I mostly do end-user tasks rather than developer tasks. As of now, nothing was so bad about GitLab, and I didn't come across any significant hardships in using the solution. For a person like me who uses resources in a bigger enterprise, there shouldn't be problems using GitLab. If you're part of a small company, there could be some issues.
My rating for GitLab is seven out of ten.
View full review »I would rate this solution as nine out of ten.
I would recommend the solution to others. For a self-hosted version, I advise others to deploy it using Docker/Docker-compose, it is the easiest way. The solution has no maintenance.
I rate GitLab a nine out of ten.
View full review »I rate GitLab a ten out of ten.
View full review »I'm not sure which version of the solution I'm using.
I'd rate this product nine out of ten.
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RameshP
System and Storage Engineer at Harsco Corporation
I would rate GitLab an eight out of ten.
GitLab provides some sort of static analysis part. That is what I understand, but I never tried it. 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.
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reviewer1579953
Manager at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
I can certainly recommend GitLab. It's a good product and I would rate it an eight out of ten.
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Javier Orellana
SCRUM Master at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
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Andrea PICCININI
IT Software Architect at ANAC - Autorità Nazionale Anticorruzione
I'd rate the solution at a nine out of ten. We've been very happy with the product.
We're a customer and an end-user.
View full review »I rate GitLab a solid nine out of 10. I recommend GitLab. Based on what I've heard, I think GitLab is will be the permanent tool we'll use. I don't think that we're going to look for any other tool in the near future.
View full review »Overall, this is a good product that has a lot of features. There are several features that I don't use personally but other members of my team do.
I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.
View full review »I would recommend this solution to anyone who is interested in using it.
GitLab is very good. I would rate GitLab a nine out of ten.
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CK Chan
Solution Manager at PCCW
I would recommend using GitLab and rank it a seven out of ten.
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reviewer1992327
Senior Software Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The solution is valuable for developers because it includes version controlling, pipelines, CI/CD, and integrations. When moving from the development side to the production side it is important to ensure that code is bug-free with no errors. We have less issues on the production side because we take full advantage of the solution.
The solution currently requires third-party integrations for CI/CD so I rate it a seven out of ten.
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reviewer1500300
UAS Innovation Group Lead at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
My advice is to work on the processes that are in the environment. Know what you need to do and what you need to deliver the software. You have to ask the question: What do you need to deploy the software?
Always take security into account from the beginning.
While this is a good tool that is always evolving and there are new updated security standards that are being published and improved upon, it is always a good idea to have another solution to compare with to get better at using it. You can always have a combination of all of them, which would something that I would be interested in.
We are always evaluating to see if there is a solution that can do the job better.
You need to have a well-defined set of processes and that will help them adapt GitLab.
Overall, it's a great product and it does a good job.
I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
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KuanyshKaribay
Co-Founder at Akhter Studio
I would rate this solution a ten out of ten.
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Zulham Ertanto
Web developer at Ertanto
I rate this solution a ten out of ten.
View full review »We are using this solution because of our client's requirements.
I would advise others to prepare the documentation for their team members.
I rate GitLab a nine out of ten.
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Anu Kaple
Technical Lead at FD
I rate this solution a seven out of ten, and it is good for a small set of people.
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reviewer1531026
Senior Solutions Architect at a tech company with 51-200 employees
I would recommend this solution to others. I would rate GitLab an eight out of ten.
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reviewer1735587
Delivery Head - DevOps at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We are using GitLab Ultimate.
As a DevOps consultant, I would like to give advice some. From 2008 or 2009, when the global market started adopting DevOps, until the year 2019 or 2020, we always had a problem. If I wanted to have DevOps automation in the organization, we would require four or five tools minimum. Since GitLab in 2020 emerged as a single platform, always advise people who are implementing DevOps to always move towards a single platform.
The reason is that you save a lot of money on your infrastructure costs. You also save a lot of money on the resources which are required to maintain all infrastructure for a single platform. And if you maintain a single platform, you'll require an optimized resource tool to maintain that.
If you're going to have multiple tools in your infrastructure for DevOps, you require many people to maintain that. In the end, everything boils down to cost. Cost is definitely high if you need to maintain infrastructure with multiple toolchains. So my advice is always, when we talk about agility, to be lean. So when you bring in GitLab, you get a lean infrastructure; you get a simple and non-complex infrastructure. You have minimum compliance issues and minimum regulatory issues.
I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.
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Srashti Saraf
Application development specialist at Eccenter
It takes some time for the environment to become stable once you migrate from another solution.
I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
GitLab is a very good solution because you can completely maintain your code and have a number of developers working on the same project. I would recommend GitLab for those doing technology development, and I'd give it a rating of nine out of ten.
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reviewer1640307
Product Development Team Lead R&D at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
I rate this solution an eight out of ten.
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reviewer1454061
Performance Test Line manager at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
I rate GitLab a nine out of ten.
View full review »I rate GitLab a seven out of ten.
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reviewer1652133
Cloud Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
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reviewer1322850
Technical Lead at a mining and metals company with 51-200 employees
I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
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reviewer1417221
Head Of Software Engineering at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
We're just a customer. We don't have a professional relationship with GitLab.
We're using the latest version of the solution right now.
I would definitely recommend the solution to other organizations. It's pretty easy to use and can scale if you need to. It's stable as well. We're not really missing any features. It's great.
Overall, I'd rate GitLab nine out of ten. They can always improve, which is why I didn't give them a perfect score. What they are working on, based on their roadmap, is already quite impressive. We're looking forward to metrics coming down the pipeline later in the year.
View full review »I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.
View full review »In summary, this is a very good product and everything is working well. I would recommend it.
I would rate this solution a ten out of ten.
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reviewer1249881
Software Designer at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
I would recommend this solution to others that are doing code management.
I rate GitLab a seven out of ten.
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Chaitanya Bhaskaruni
Team Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I would give GitLab a rating of nine out of ten.
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Shrey Gupta
Director Technology at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.
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reviewer1270920
Software QA Test Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I would recommend this solution.
On a scale from one to ten, I would give GitLab an eight.
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reviewer1540521
Lead Consultant at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
I would advise those wanting to implement this solution to create tutorials themselves because there are so many sources that you have to look at just to understand how to make a red blob or red marker onto the code.
I rate GitLab a seven out of ten.
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reviewer1295343
Partenaire, CEO at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
We strive to always have the latest technology. In this business, you have to follow your client and follow the trend. In fact, you have to do things ahead of the trend and be prepared. For us, this tool is really convenient.
My advice for anybody who is implementing this solution is to consider the paid version. Don't be afraid to pay a few dollars a year. Especially for a startup company, this tool is an investment. You don't have to look at it as an expenditure or expense. Don't think about it as spending money, but rather, investing money.
From my point of view and for what I use GitLab for, it is okay for me. There may be other products, but this is a great tool. It's convenient and it's used by a million developers. The developers here consider it to be the best choice. That said, there is always room for improvement in a product.
I would rate this solution a nine out of ten.
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reviewer1564743
Solution Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
I would recommend this solution. I would rate GitLab an eight out of ten.
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reviewer1393092
Developer / Team Lead at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
Depending on the situation, I would recommend it.
I would rate this solution an eight out of 10.
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March 2024
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