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Bitbucket Pipelines vs GitLab: What are the differences?

Developers describe Bitbucket Pipelines as "An Integrated continuous integration and continuous deployment for Bitbucket". It is an Integrated continuous integration and continuous deployment for Bitbucket Cloud that's trivial to set up, automating your code from test to production. Our mission is to enable all teams to ship software faster by driving the practice of continuous delivery. On the other hand, GitLab is detailed as "Open source self-hosted Git management software". 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.

Bitbucket Pipelines and GitLab are primarily classified as "Continuous Integration" and "Code Collaboration & Version Control" tools respectively.

Some of the features offered by Bitbucket Pipelines are:

  • Continuous integration and delivery
  • Map the branch structure
  • Run as service

On the other hand, GitLab provides the following key 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

GitLab is an open source tool with 20.1K GitHub stars and 5.33K GitHub forks. Here's a link to GitLab's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, GitLab has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1234 company stacks & 1479 developers stacks; compared to Bitbucket Pipelines, which is listed in 21 company stacks and 4 developer stacks.

Decisions about Bitbucket Pipelines and GitLab
Weverton Timoteo

Do you review your Pull/Merge Request before assigning Reviewers?

If you work in a team opening a Pull Request (or Merge Request) looks appropriate. However, have you ever thought about opening a Pull/Merge Request when working by yourself? Here's a checklist of things you can review in your own:

  • Pick the correct target branch
  • Make Drafts explicit
  • Name things properly
  • Ask help for tools
  • Remove the noise
  • Fetch necessary data
  • Understand Mergeability
  • Pass the message
  • Add screenshots
  • Be found in the future
  • Comment inline in your changes

Read the blog post for more detailed explanation for each item :D

What else do you review before asking for code review?

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Weverton Timoteo

Using an inclusive language is crucial for fostering a diverse culture. Git has changed the naming conventions to be more language-inclusive, and so you should change. Our development tools, like GitHub and GitLab, already supports the change.

SourceLevel deals very nicely with repositories that changed the master branch to a more appropriate word. Besides, you can use the grep linter the look for exclusive terms contained in the source code.

As the inclusive language gap may happen in other aspects of our lives, have you already thought about them?

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Weverton Timoteo

One of the magic tricks git performs is the ability to rewrite log history. You can do it in many ways, but git rebase -i is the one I most use. With this command, It’s possible to switch commits order, remove a commit, squash two or more commits, or edit, for instance.

It’s particularly useful to run it before opening a pull request. It allows developers to “clean up” the mess and organize commits before submitting to review. If you follow the practice 3 and 4, then the list of commits should look very similar to a task list. It should reveal the rationale you had, telling the story of how you end up with that final code.

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Kamaleshwar BN
Senior Software Engineer at Pulley · | 8 upvotes · 651.3K views

Out of most of the VCS solutions out there, we found Gitlab was the most feature complete with a free community edition. Their DevSecops offering is also a very robust solution. Gitlab CI/CD was quite easy to setup and the direct integration with your VCS + CI/CD is also a bonus. Out of the box integration with major cloud providers, alerting through instant messages etc. are all extremely convenient. We push our CI/CD updates to MS Teams.

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Gitlab as A LOT of features that GitHub and Azure DevOps are missing. Even if both GH and Azure are backed by Microsoft, GitLab being open source has a faster upgrade rate and the hosted by gitlab.com solution seems more appealing than anything else! Quick win: the UI is way better and the Pipeline is way easier to setup on GitLab!

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Nazar Atamaniuk
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At DeployPlace we use self-hosted GitLab, we have chosen GitLab as most of us are familiar with it. We are happy with all features GitLab provides, I can’t imagine our life without integrated GitLab CI. Another important feature for us is integrated code review tool, we use it every day, we use merge requests, code reviews, branching. To be honest, most of us have GitHub accounts as well, we like to contribute in open source, and we want to be a part of the tech community, but lack of solutions from GitHub in the area of CI doesn’t let us chose it for our projects.

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Pros of Bitbucket Pipelines
Pros of GitLab
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    • 507
      Self hosted
    • 429
      Free
    • 339
      Has community edition
    • 242
      Easy setup
    • 240
      Familiar interface
    • 137
      Includes many features, including ci
    • 113
      Nice UI
    • 84
      Good integration with gitlabci
    • 57
      Simple setup
    • 34
      Free private repository
    • 34
      Has an official mobile app
    • 31
      Continuous Integration
    • 22
      Open source, great ui (like github)
    • 18
      Slack Integration
    • 14
      Full CI flow
    • 11
      Free and unlimited private git repos
    • 10
      User, group, and project access management is simple
    • 9
      All in one (Git, CI, Agile..)
    • 8
      Built-in CI
    • 8
      Intuitive UI
    • 6
      Full DevOps suite with Git
    • 6
      Both public and private Repositories
    • 5
      Integrated Docker Registry
    • 5
      Build/pipeline definition alongside code
    • 5
      So easy to use
    • 5
      CI
    • 5
      It's powerful source code management tool
    • 4
      Unlimited free repos & collaborators
    • 4
      Security and Stable
    • 4
      On-premises
    • 4
      It's fully integrated
    • 4
      Excellent
    • 4
      Issue system
    • 4
      Mattermost Chat client
    • 4
      Dockerized
    • 3
      Great for team collaboration
    • 3
      Free private repos
    • 3
      Because is the best remote host for git repositories
    • 3
      Low maintenance cost due omnibus-deployment
    • 3
      Not Microsoft Owned
    • 3
      Built-in Docker Registry
    • 3
      Opensource
    • 3
      I like the its runners and executors feature
    • 2
      Multilingual interface
    • 2
      Powerful software planning and maintaining tools
    • 2
      Review Apps feature
    • 2
      Kubernetes integration with GitLab CI
    • 2
      One-click install through DigitalOcean
    • 2
      Powerful Continuous Integration System
    • 2
      Native CI
    • 2
      HipChat intergration
    • 2
      Many private repo
    • 2
      Kubernetes Integration
    • 2
      Published IP list for whitelisting (gl-infra#434)
    • 2
      Wounderful
    • 2
      Beautiful
    • 2
      Groups of groups
    • 2
      The dashboard with deployed environments
    • 2
      It includes everything I need, all packaged with docker
    • 1
      Supports Radius/Ldap & Browser Code Edits

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    Cons of Bitbucket Pipelines
    Cons of GitLab
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      • 28
        Slow ui performance
      • 8
        Introduce breaking bugs every release
      • 6
        Insecure (no published IP list for whitelisting)
      • 2
        Built-in Docker Registry
      • 1
        Review Apps feature

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      What is Bitbucket Pipelines?

      It is an Integrated continuous integration and continuous deployment for Bitbucket Cloud that's trivial to set up, automating your code from test to production. Our mission is to enable all teams to ship software faster by driving the practice of continuous delivery.

      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.

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      CircleCI
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      GitLab offers a continuous integration service. If you add a .gitlab-ci.yml file to the root directory of your repository, and configure your GitLab project to use a Runner, then each merge request or push triggers your CI pipeline.
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