Why developers like GitLab

What is GitLab?

GitLab offers git repository management, code reviews, issue tracking, activity feeds and wikis. Enterprises install GitLab on-premise and connect it with LDAP and Active Directory servers for secure authentication and authorization. A single GitLab server can handle more than 25,000 users but it is also possible to create a high availability setup with multiple active servers.

GitLab is a tool in the Code Collaboration & Version Control category of a tech stack.

Who uses GitLab?

Companies

3613 companies reportedly use GitLab in their tech stacks, including GO-JEK, KAVAK, and Hepsiburada.

GO-JEK

KAVAK

Hepsiburada

Mollie

trivago

deleokorea

Alibaba Travels

Trendyol Group

Ruangguru

Developers

58893 developers on StackShare have stated that they use GitLab.

Cesar Gomez

Clan Of The Cloud

SaaS

Personal

Hitalo Silva

Malachai

Social Sharing API

TARDIS

Wallhaven

GitLab Integrations

Postman, Confluence, Sentry, BrowserStack, and GitLab CI are some of the popular tools that integrate with GitLab. Here's a list of all 220 tools that integrate with GitLab.

Postman

Confluence

Sentry

BrowserStack

GitLab CI

Codecov

Vercel

Codeship

Bugsnag

Pros of GitLab

508

Self hosted

431

Free

339

Has community edition

242

Easy setup

240

Familiar interface

137

Includes many features, including ci

113

Nice UI

Good integration with gitlabci

Simple setup

Has an official mobile app

Free private repository

Continuous Integration

Open source, great ui (like github)

Slack Integration

Full CI flow

Free and unlimited private git repos

All in one (Git, CI, Agile..)

User, group, and project access management is simple

Intuitive UI

Built-in CI

Full DevOps suite with Git

Both public and private Repositories

Integrated Docker Registry

So easy to use

Build/pipeline definition alongside code

It's powerful source code management tool

Dockerized

It's fully integrated

On-premises

Security and Stable

Unlimited free repos & collaborators

Not Microsoft Owned

Excellent

Issue system

Mattermost Chat client

Great for team collaboration

Free private repos

Because is the best remote host for git repositories

Built-in Docker Registry

Opensource

Low maintenance cost due omnibus-deployment

I like the its runners and executors feature

Beautiful

Groups of groups

Multilingual interface

Powerful software planning and maintaining tools

Review Apps feature

Kubernetes integration with GitLab CI

One-click install through DigitalOcean

Powerful Continuous Integration System

It includes everything I need, all packaged with docker

The dashboard with deployed environments

HipChat intergration

Many private repo

Kubernetes Integration

Published IP list for whitelisting (gl-infra#434)

Wounderful

Native CI

Supports Radius/Ldap & Browser Code Edits

Decisions about GitLab

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose GitLab in their tech stack.

liberating truthSeeking

Aug 2, 2022 | 2 upvotes · 11.5K views

Needs advice

Bamboo

and

GitLab

Need for CI/CD as part of data testing team.

Please suggest.

Currently, Bamboo is most commonly used in the company while GitLab is rated highly by the internal team.

Elvis Ike

Full Stack Developer · Jan 4, 2022 | 5 upvotes · 94K views

Needs advice

Bitbucket

GitHub

and

GitLab

What code hosting platform does yelp use? GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket? Are there any special reasons why yelp decided to use the platform over others?

Matanel Crown

Software Developer at BBT.live · Aug 16, 2021 | 7 upvotes · 335K views

Needs advice

GitHub

GitHub Enterprise

and

GitLab

Hi all,

I would like some information regarding the benefits an aspiring start-up company may have, while using GitHub Enterprise vs the regular GitHub package. On a separate issue, I'd like to understand whether GitLab may have some DevOps-related advantages GitHub does not.

Thank you in advance, Matt

yamuna villuri

Jul 20, 2021 | 1 upvote · 3K views

Needs advice

Crucible

and

GitLab

Need advice for integration with GitLab. I want to know the tool or application used for integration with gitlab and helpful in code comparison.

Luis F. Pontes

Jun 9, 2021 | 3 upvotes · 68.9K views

Needs advice

Bitbucket

and

GitLab

We use self-hosted GitLab, and we like CI/CD, but the integration with Jira related to automation doesn't work well. We are thinking about Bitbucket as it integrates very well with Jira.

Does anyone use Bitbucket with Jira? Work well?

xie zhifeng

cto at csdn · May 10, 2021 | 2 upvotes · 71.8K views

Needs advice

and

I am choosing a DevOps toolset for my team. GitLab is open source and quite cloud-native. Jenkins has a very popular environment system but old-style technicals. Bamboo is very nice but integrated only with Atlassian products.

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Blog Posts

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GitLab's Features

Manage git repositories with fine grained access controls that keep your code secure
Perform code reviews and enhance collaboration with merge requests
Each project can also have an issue tracker and a wiki
Used by more than 100,000 organizations, GitLab is the most popular solution to manage git repositories on-premises
Completely free and open source (MIT Expat license)
Powered by Ruby on Rails

GitLab Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to GitLab?

GitHub

GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.

Bitbucket

Bitbucket gives teams one place to plan projects, collaborate on code, test and deploy, all with free private Git repositories. Teams choose Bitbucket because it has a superior Jira integration, built-in CI/CD, & is free for up to 5 users.

Jenkins

In a nutshell Jenkins CI is the leading open-source continuous integration server. Built with Java, it provides over 300 plugins to support building and testing virtually any project.

Gogs

The goal of this project is to make the easiest, fastest and most painless way to set up a self-hosted Git service. With Go, this can be done in independent binary distribution across ALL platforms that Go supports, including Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.

Git

Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

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