GitLab Overview
What is GitLab?
GitLab is an integrated, open source DevOps lifecycle management platform for software development teams to plan, code, test, deploy and monitor product changes within a single application. GitLab allows users to streamline their collaborative workflows and visualize, prioritize, coordinate, and track progress using flexible project management tools.
GitLab helps streamline collaborative workflows whether a team uses Agile, Waterfall, or conversational development methods. Users are able to securely write and manage code and project data, and consolidate source code into a single DVCS that can be managed without disrupting the workflow. GitLab’s git repositories are provided with branching tools and access controls for a scalable, single source of truth for collaboration on projects and code.
Users are able to customize their approval workflow controls, and automatically test the quality of code. GitLab verification tools help users spot errors sooner while shortening feedback cycles with features such as built-in code review, code testing, code quality, and review apps. Users can manage custom container images with GitLab’s container registry, which provides users with enhanced security and access controls without third party add-ons.
Organizations can minimize complexity by building, testing, and releasing their code securely, whether deploying to one server, or thousands, using GitLab’s continuous delivery and deployment feature. Users can automate the entire workflow and customize everything from buildpacks to CI/CD. Best practice templates help users get started with minimal configuration. GitLab collects and displays performance metrics for deployed apps using Prometheus, allowing users to analyze shipping velocity and monitor application performance.
GitLab Overview
Pricing
Pricing options
Libre: $0
Starter: $4 per user, per month (billed annually)
Premium: $19 per user, per month (billed annually)
Ultimate: $99 per user, per month (billed annually)
GitLab Features
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GitLab Reviews
GitLab Reviews
GitLab Review
GitLab resolved our version controlling problems, code review problems. It helps to maintain our code standards very easily. We can setup It on our local server also very easily. It is free anyone can try it.
It's good but, definitely not the best
It works fine, and it's a good alternative for the usual Bitbucket, Jira and Bamboo (or Jenkins) combo that's commonly found on the corporate world. I'd recommend to consider Github Teams or Github Enterprise.
Ready to integrate different types of projects
We are very happy and pleased to use the tool.
Our ci-cd and approval / reviewer workflows are fully supported; this allows are agile practices taken to reality.
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GitLab is a must for development teams
Pros
I love the Boards for tracking Issues in their life cycle. Customizable Columns and Labels make it quick and easy to see where an Issue is, giving a high level for management and the rest of the team, while having all the details and attached code branches and merge requests for the developer and stakeholders. I love how it's able to connect code from several projects to Issues, no matter where they live, so you can have as many boards and projects as you like! It's well put together and seems natural with everything I try to do organization-wise. Integrates really well with developers' workflows.
Cons
GitLab is always improving and enables you to request features, so if you want something, suggest it and they'll get to it! Sometimes that's a bit slow, but you can usually work around it.

GitLab Review
GitLab resolved our version controlling problems, code review problems. It helps to maintain our code standards very easily. We can setup It on our local server also very easily. It is free anyone can try it.
Pros
GitLab is a superb source code managemanet provide. It is free. We can install it in our privet server also. As well as we can use their server with a free account. We use git for version control. GitLab provides awesome support for version control. It is a very easy tool. Anyone can use it very easily If someone has no more knowledge about versioning but He can use GitLab very easy. We can maintain our Repositories/Branchers. User access level also there. Currently, We use GitLab. We maintain feature branches, dev branch, and master branch. Everyone does not allow to merge code to the dev branch. If someone add merge request to the dev branch, our one-person review code and merge. Then we use GitLab it is easy for us. GitLab provides superb dashboard it very easy to review code. It shows all code changes with file by file. Easy to compare. As well as we can compare two branches vary easy. It provides a clear, unique, user-friendly dashboard. GitLab also supports CI/CD process. It's superb we can recommend for anyone. If our commit has some conflict it shows how to resolve that step by step.
Cons
When I add a new commit. If the file is large/have many lines. It not showing code changes directly. It shows a message file has many lines cannot show changes that kind of message. Sometimes when we compare two commits. It not more clear. Some times confusing. If I show some file history only show commits. not showing code changes by commits. We want to go and check every commits to show changes.

Powerful source code management platform
Pros
Gitlab is my primary source code management platform where I store the repositories of my applications. It's very powerful and easy to use. I really like the CI pipeline because easy to configure and provide the automation you need in deployment. Code review process is also very nice.
Cons
All the things I need for my daily usage are covered. Would be nice to have an out-of-the-box dependabot integration without having to configure so many things.

It's good but, definitely not the best
It works fine, and it's a good alternative for the usual Bitbucket, Jira and Bamboo (or Jenkins) combo that's commonly found on the corporate world. I'd recommend to consider Github Teams or Github Enterprise.
Pros
- 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
Cons
- 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
Ready to integrate different types of projects
We are very happy and pleased to use the tool.
Our ci-cd and approval / reviewer workflows are fully supported; this allows are agile practices taken to reality.
Pros
Great integration with git.
Always pushing new features to improve user overall experience.
Large set of integrations for different languages.
Large set of integrations for different tools for code quality, lint, code analysis, etc.
Pipeline allows almost any type of step for testing, building, deploying.
Great to have own registry.
Cons
API should be more powerful and package for most common languages as nodejs.
Registry navigator should be improved.
Members permission management could also be improved.
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GitLab Pricing
GitLab Pricing
Libre: $0
Starter: $4 per user, per month (billed annually)
Premium: $19 per user, per month (billed annually)
Ultimate: $99 per user, per month (billed annually)
Libre: $0
Starter: $4 per user, per month (billed annually)
Premium: $19 per user, per month (billed annually)
Ultimate: $99 per user, per month (billed annually)
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GitLab Features
GitLab Features
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Additional information for GitLab
Additional information for GitLab
Key features of GitLab
- Activity stream
- Advanced global search & syntax search
- Analytics
- Application performance monitoring
- Audit logs
- Block secret file push
- Branching
- Browser performance testing
- Built-in CI/CD
- Built-in container registry
- Burndown charts
- Compliance
- Confidential issues
- Configurable issue closing pattern
- Create and remove admins
- Create issue from email
- Create, search and view issues from chat
- Custom domains for GitLab Pages
- Custom notifications
- Cycle analytics
- Disaster recovery
- Display merge request status for builds on Jenkins CI
- Drag and drop tasks
- Due dates for individual issues
- Dynamic application security testing
- Email all users of a project, group, or entire server
- Enriched markdown support
- Environments history
- Epics
- Git LFS 2.0 support
- GitLab server monitoring
- Global Search API
- Group issue boards
- Group milestones
- Group webhooks
- Image discussions
- Innersourcing
- Integrated Git-powered wikis
- Issue board focus mode
- Issue boards
- Issue tracker
- Issue weights
- Issues and merge requests templates
- Kerberos user authentication
- Labels
- Mattermost integration
- Move issues between projects
- Multi-project pipeline graphs
- Multiple LDAP / AD server support
- Multiple LDAP server support
- Multiple approvals in code review
- Multiple assignees for issues
- Preview changes with review apps
- Project templates
- Protected tags
- Publish static websites for free
- Push rules
- Remote repository mirroring
- Restrict push and merge access to certain users
- Roadmaps
- Scheduled triggering of pipelines
- Service desk
- Squash and merge
- Time tracking
- To-dos
Benefits
GitLab FAQs
GitLab FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for GitLab.
Q. What type of pricing plans does GitLab offer?
GitLab offers the following pricing plans:
Starting from: $4.00/month
Pricing model: Subscription, Open Source
Free Trial: Not Available
Libre: $0 Starter: $4 per user, per month (billed annually) Premium: $19 per user, per month (billed annually) Ultimate: $99 per user, per month (billed annually)
Q. What are the main features of GitLab?
GitLab offers the following features:
- Activity stream
- Advanced global search & syntax search
- Analytics
- Application performance monitoring
- Audit logs
- Block secret file push
- Branching
- Browser performance testing
- Built-in CI/CD
- Built-in container registry
- Burndown charts
- Compliance
- Confidential issues
- Configurable issue closing pattern
- Create and remove admins
- Create issue from email
- Create, search and view issues from chat
- Custom domains for GitLab Pages
- Custom notifications
- Cycle analytics
- Disaster recovery
- Display merge request status for builds on Jenkins CI
- Drag and drop tasks
- Due dates for individual issues
- Dynamic application security testing
- Email all users of a project, group, or entire server
- Enriched markdown support
- Environments history
- Epics
- Git LFS 2.0 support
- GitLab server monitoring
- Global Search API
- Group issue boards
- Group milestones
- Group webhooks
- Image discussions
- Innersourcing
- Integrated Git-powered wikis
- Issue board focus mode
- Issue boards
- Issue tracker
- Issue weights
- Issues and merge requests templates
- Kerberos user authentication
- Labels
- Mattermost integration
- Move issues between projects
- Multi-project pipeline graphs
- Multiple LDAP / AD server support
- Multiple LDAP server support
- Multiple approvals in code review
- Multiple assignees for issues
- Preview changes with review apps
- Project templates
- Protected tags
- Publish static websites for free
- Push rules
- Remote repository mirroring
- Restrict push and merge access to certain users
- Roadmaps
- Scheduled triggering of pipelines
- Service desk
- Squash and merge
- Time tracking
- To-dos
Q. Who are the typical users of GitLab?
GitLab has the following typical customers:
Small Business, Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business
Q. What languages does GitLab support?
GitLab supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does GitLab support mobile devices?
GitLab supports the following devices:
iPhone, iPad
Q. What other apps does GitLab integrate with?
GitLab integrates with the following applications:
Atolia, Forecast, Hubstaff, Hygger, LambdaTest, Marker.io, Standuply, Tickd, Trello, craft
Q. What level of support does GitLab offer?
GitLab offers the following support options:
FAQs, Forum, Knowledge Base