Opiniones de GitLab

Muy facil de organizar, permite subgrupos

Version en continuo cambio, equipos limitados a 5 personas

Lo que más me gusta de Gitlab es que puedo crear un servidor privado y así me aseguro de tener el control de mis datos.

En general todo está bien con GitLab, pero si tengo que mencionar algo sería la de optimizar las imágenes Docker para que no demanden muchos recursos.

Lo uso a diario desde que empecé mi carrera profesional. Gran facilidad de uso, creación de tickets y de progresos, ramas...

Al principio, si nunca has utilizado una herramienta de este tipo puede ser un poco complicado hasta que te haces a ella, la implementas en otros softwares...

I can have private software git repositories by free. Differently by Github, that charges you to have a private repository. The interface is beautiful, has a wiki, and the commits work fine from Linux.

Doesn't exist an app to make the commits (like in GitHub), thus you just need to use the terminal line (which shouldn't be a problem for any programmer), and the community isn't very well developed, thus you still will need to go to Github to find software repositories.

It's opensource though provides a cloud based solution with a really good free tier. It allows integrating code repositories with issue tracking and continuos integration and continuos deployment

User experience could be largely improved. Searching and filters are a bit clunky from the UX point of view. Also bulk actions are only allowed at project level.

All-in-one platform: GitLab provides a range of tools and services for development teams, including source code management, continuous integration and delivery, issue tracking, and more, all in a single platform.Easy collaboration: GitLab's web-based interface makes it easy for team members to collaborate, review code, and track progress.Customization: GitLab provides a range of customization options, including custom pipelines, templates, and integrations, to help teams adapt the platform to their specific needs.Open-source: GitLab is open-source software, making it accessible to organizations with limited budgets.Secure: GitLab places a strong emphasis on security and offers a range of security features and services to help protect sensitive data.

Steep learning curve: GitLab's extensive feature set and customization options can be overwhelming for organizations new to the platform.Performance: GitLab's performance can be slow, especially for larger repositories, and may impact the efficiency of development teams.Lack of native mobile app: GitLab does not have a native mobile app, making it difficult for team members to access and collaborate on the go.

Its wide range of tools that are easily accessible and makes my work much easier.

It is not too user friendly especially for newbies like me.

The best available CI/CD and SCM tool available compared to industry best github. We use EKS deployments specially from a fully generated CI?CD auto devops pipeline in gitlab and there are various features gitlab leveraged in sdlc of a product .

The advanced search functionality could improve better and devops metrics can be improved. We need search functionality for regular premium users to go through files and search for a string and all.

I can easily keep track of each task separately, create various boards for each feature, and manage my work pipeline for CI-CD,  GitLab is a one-stop solution. Activities for the team are fairly simple to design. Collaboration is possible while productivity is increased and costs are decreased. Developers may host, control, and monitor changes to their code repositories using GitLab.

The huge amount of information on the screen can be overwhelming for beginners. A chat feature that makes it simpler to follow a thread is something I would appreciate. There isn't enough information in the documentation.

--Rich feature set--Amazing value for money--Each enterprise integration--Share code quicker and more efficiently

--UI can be slow--Dashboarding don't show any analytics

it is free and it is open source and has powerful CI/CD pipe lines and it is very easy to use.

it has limited integration option and limited community support .

I appreciate that GitLab is an open source platform with features that facilitate collaboration and project management. The integration with other services such as Slack and CI/CD is a great advantage, making the development process more efficient. Additionally, the fact that it is free and has a strong community with abundant resources is a plus.

Testing CI builds locally can be challenging, the interface may be slower compared to other options, it has some missing features, and the menus can be confusing and difficult to navigate. Additionally, there have been instances of crashes before displaying errors when reaching certain stages.

It's a very useful software for software engineers, as when we create the microservices for the product then all the services can be deployed on Gitlab , which can store all the source files and source code which can further be cloned to use in our branch locally.

It's somewhat complicated for new users, as there are many ways of execution for similar tasks.

Using Git as a configuration management tool is already common sense (essential), but I think this software is the most used for remote (distributed) development. There are many cases where you install Git on each person's terminal and operate the commands, but if it is team development and you can't use an "external (public Internet) repository", it is better to set up and operate a Git repository with GitLab I think it will be the safest and standard way to use Git.

I guess there is no choice but to get used to it, but I would like to see more visual changes and expressions (messages) when conflicts occur that are easier to understand for beginners. After all, I'd like to see them develop an interface that makes it easier to understand the concept of Git configuration in the first place.

Integration of CI/CD and Kubernetes for easily developing and running custom apps. Fantastic collaboration features like discussions, visual diffing. Some of this stuff you don't even get on desktop apps that charge big bucks. Frequent updates that inch its capability and usability forward. Good documentation. Wonderful community, welcoming atmosphere, pleasant to work with all the employees I've encountered.

Sometimes things break. When things are broken, sometimes it can take some time to be fixed, if you're not willing or able to fix it yourself. One of the consequences of such broad scope and feature development velocity. It would be advisable to keep another copy installed separately for testing updates before applying them to the live edition, if your IT has the capacity to do so.

GitLab is an awesome tool to use everyday. It is simple and easy to install on premise. The free tier is enough for any small business / team.

What really makes GitLab stands in front of the competition are its awesome CI/CD workflows. GitLab CI is incredible, you can do anything you want with it from building your sources, checking your code quality, deploying your projects... It is possible to make connections between various pipelines and have multiple repositories connected together to build your final "big" project.

Even if GitLab is simple to use, it's a big piece of software that can sometimes become slow on the web user interface.
Moreover the review system is sometimes not so easy to use compared to other competitors. Hopefully their are great browser extensions that solves this issues.

This product is excellent and has both enterprise edition and community edition making it very inexpensive to get into and then moving to enterprise once setup and still very inexpensive compared to other options out there. You also can set up a private gitlab server either in docker or bare metal. I cannot rave enough about git lab.

There's not much to not like about it. It's a very capable system that can be deployed in every type of way imaginable. If I was to nitpick then I would say adding additional users can be a pain without having self registration available.

Gitlab offers you a secure space to store and manage your git repositories, for personal use and or for your organization's development team. You can easily assign tasks to team members, and track and follow up on them with clearly laid out and categorized Kanban boards.

Gitlab's UI and UX are quite overwhelming for a first-time user. If you are new to Gitlab and you haven't used a similar platform like Github or Bitbucket before, you will definitely need a little training to fully utilize your Gitlab space. Make sure to get through the entire onboarding tutorial to avoid feeling lost because it's all going to seem very clunky and difficult to find your way at the beginning.

GitLab provides all-in-one capability for developers to do Source Code Management, CI/CD automation, Security and coding standards checks. Earlier we used to have separate tools for each of the above functions, but moving to Gitlab we now have a single stop-shop for all our Application Development and Automation needs. I see many other companies are trying to follow the gitlab methodology but gitlab is way ahead of the competetion.

Project and Portfolio management can still have improvements to provide Roadmap and Grantt views in future versions

- Unlike Github, it can be installed locally, it also makes it highly customizable
- It has CI/CD functionality integrated
- It has code search and indexing
- It's integrated with a docker registry and multiple code repositories

- It's highly monolithic, if some feature fails, most of the times everything fails
- It's not easy to clusterize the service
- It's not easy to update, nor to migrate to a new server
- It costs the same to use the self-hosted than the cloud-hosted version
- Gitlab CI/CD shared (both free and paid minutes) run on a GCE Kubernetes cluster without any fixed IP address so it's hard to access your servers unless you open ports publicly or create a VPN tunnel

GitLab comes packed with a number of helpful facilities for managing continuous integration/deployment tasks. The option to self-host a GitLab instance is also appreciated.

Comes with something of a learning curve and can take a while to fully introduce non-technical users to its functionality.

The software includes version control, container storage, issue tracker, grouping and goals. All of these provides great experience for a developer.

I don't like the interface, it looks too professional. Something more playful would be highly appreceated.

Integrated CI/CD!!! can't emphasize how much this is helpful to have, I hate using Jenkins so much
The UI is very slick and good, while GitHub is the "de facto standard" I actually really love GitLab's GUI as well

not really their fault at all, but, a lot of -other- projects are already on GitHub.. so it's a bit annoying to cross collaborate with GitHub users (say - you want to open a pull request to a GitHub project so you're forced to do it on GitHub). It kinda sucks to have stuff spread out across multiple sites and have to get used to multiple UIs/concepts

GitLab CI is great. The GitLab CI/CD language allows us to build complex pipelines easily, pipeline's configs are stored in the repository as well, so we can manage everything in one place. GitLab also has built-in Docker registry. We have both our build pipeline and our images hosted on GitLab.
The pricing is also flexible, I recommend it for both startup and large enterprises.

Explore Projects feature can be better, it would be more useful if we have a filter to select projects by technologies.
Should support templates on the job level, so it can be reused between multiple environments.
Lack of integration: there are not many 3rd party services that integrate with GitLab for now.

GitLab does its best to help you with what you may need in order to promote quality code deployments with tools and resources to become a more collaborative team. With source control and hosting repositories as its primary objective, GitLab extends to its users an extensive suite of tools and controls to ensure only quality code is committed and only by those that is desired. With features like code reviews, pipeline validations, and allowing for integration of automated tests, its hard to imagine low quality or bug infested code to get through to your production or master code branches.

Honestly, its not easy to pick out cons of such a great tool in your arsenal. Given that so much goes so well once you've integrated everything properly, the only things that come to mind are more of a annoyance rather than an issue and coincidentally, they're all based on the UI or aspects that don't interfere with the workflow or the work itself. One of which is that GitLab does not offer a dark mode of its UI. Given we are developers and spend most of our time looking at computer screen, It would be lovely to be able to darken the UI so that its not so straining to our eyes. Secondly, we have split up our GitLab in to various teams where each of the teams have access to their own folders/repository. Unfortunately, whenever someone from ANY of these sub-repos is given access, opens a new merge request, or is making comments on a merge request, everyone gets an email about it. It can be very frustrating and I'm not really sure if this setting can be changed from a User level but I would really love it if they can.