What is GitLab?
With GitLab, Security is built into the CI pipeline, out of the box. Every code commit is automatically scanned for security vulnerabilities in your code and its dependencies. Actionable results are delivered to the developer in their native workflow for rapid remediation.
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91 Likeliness to Recommend
98 Plan to Renew
88 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+98 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love GitLab?
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Client Friendly Policies
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Feature Ratings
SDLC Integration
Vulnerability Scanning
Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
Container Security Testing
Risk Scoring
Policy Engine and Enforcements
False Positive Remediation
Integrated Development Environment (IDE) plug-in
Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
Software Composition Analysis (SCA)
Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST)
Vendor Capability Ratings
Business Value Created
Ease of Data Integration
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Ease of Implementation
Breadth of Features
Vendor Support
Availability and Quality of Training
Quality of Features
Ease of IT Administration
Ease of Customization
Usability and Intuitiveness
GitLab Reviews
Ki G.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Healthcare
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Nov 2022
Gitlab changed my idea of project development.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates GitLab from other similar products?
Gitlab adopts a unique authentication system , which is different from any other code repository and collaborative software that I have had experience using so far. By letting me modify and set permissions for different collaborators within my team , I get to define the type of access which every collaborator has to team branches and repositories. I think all of the aforementioned keeps our code as a team , a lot secured.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Am a firm believer that Gitlab serves as an accelerator , in terms of how quickly we are completing software development projects. This is as a result of how Gitlab streamlines version control , code security with continuous integration and delivery ( Ci/Cd) . Gitlab helping to streamline the above three phases of software development in my company, has helped reduce risk defects in projects and surely led to faster product delivery.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The Gitlab user community is not active , unlike what I was used to with Github, which was the preferred code hosting platform in my last company.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Gitlab makes life easier for every person in my companys development team. It addresses a lot of potential pitfalls in software development and just helps to bring everything together.
Pros
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
- Security Protects
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Caroline L.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Finance
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Nov 2022
We just achieve more with Gitlab.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates GitLab from other similar products?
Gitlab automates key workflows pre and post code deployment. Automation of workflows include compliant pipelines ( for better visibility and control ), guardrails implementation ( granular control over all of a teams deployment ) , context testing ( automated code and performance security testing ) etc A major benefit of the above for my team is in the improved productivity of our developers since we switched to Gitlab and an accelerated multi-cloud journey .
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Githab provides teams with the unhindered freedom to import projects from other Git based repository platforms like Bitbucket and Github. Also, I rate Gitlab's continuous integration and continuous deployment / delivery experience as the best of any git program. Gitlabs Ci/Cd protocol automates our entire process, making critical steps like code testing and deployment to be as automated as they can possibly be.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Gitlab's interface is not modern , neither is it intuitive for first time users especially. I describe its user interface as sloppy and this is a result of inherent repository bugs on the Githab program.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Gitlab is ideally suitable for multi-person development teams seeking to develop simultaneously and automate consistent pipelines for scalable enterprise architecture and infrastructure.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
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Daniel Ernesto R.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Other
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Nov 2022
Verify and build code the right way
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates GitLab from other similar products?
Our platform and application development teams use GitLab is a key technology that allows our product engineering teams to version, build, verify, validate and deploy software enhancements to support our customers. It is our primary code repository, version control and build integration platform and we can more efficiently track work within a sprint and at the end of a sprint.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Excellent fallback action if the code throws us an error when we run it so we can go back to the time before the error as well as access functions with the command line as well as through the control panel. In addition, with its integrated CI/CD, we can now upload a new version of the application and even test it, so that the end user has a very good experience without major bugs and as well as these and many more features that can not provide when programming code.
What do you dislike most about this product?
We found no flaws in the use of GitLab.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
It can be said that for a good development of a project where you can include a working group which makes the experience more enjoyable when we use GitLab to create our open source repertoire as it is also recommended by the amount of projects that you can learn from being open source which is a great support for all open source communities and contributors, in this era of science and technology, GitLab can be used anywhere.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Caring
- Respectful
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