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GitLab is the most comprehensive AI-Powered DevSecOps platform that enables software innovation by empowering development, security, and operations teams to build better software, faster. With GitLab, teams can create, deliver, and manage code quickly and continuously instead of managing disparate tools and scripts. GitLab helps your teams across the complete DevSecOps lifecycle, from developing, securing, and deploying software. What makes us truly different? - Flexibility: Consume as a service or manage your own deployment - Cloud-Agnostic: Deploy anywhere with no vendor lock-in - No rip and replace: Scale to a platform approach at your own pace

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An open source web interface and source control platform based on Git.


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GitLab is a complete Comprehensive DevSecOps platform, delivered as a single application, fundamentally changing the way Development, Security, and Ops teams collaborate and build software. From idea to production, GitLab helps teams improve cycle time from weeks to minutes, reduce development costs and time to market while increasing developer productivity.

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Sampath K.
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Sampath K.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"The GitLab Admin POV: One Tool to Rule Them All?"
From an admin eyes , GitLab offers a comprehensive and effective all-in-one DevSecOps platform that minimizes the need to manage multiple toolchain...
Azeem R.
AR
Azeem R.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"I have a great experience in GitLab Friendly Use"
I find GitLab CI/CD pipelines very intuitive and powerful. Setting up automated tests, deployments, or even custom jobs feels seamless.
Roshan G.
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Roshan G.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Gitlab is a best workspace."
Gitlab makes works easier to handle . Gitlab is always up and running .

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Mohit V.
MV
Software Engineer DevOps
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Review source: G2 invite
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What do you like best about GitLab?

What I like most is the GitLab brings together version control, CI/CD, issue tracking, and project management in a single tool. I really like how seamless it is to go from writing code to deploying it, all without leaving the platform. The built-in CI/CD is easy to set up, and the merge request workflow helps keep code quality high. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitLab?

It can feel a bit slow sometimes, especially with larger repositories or more complex pipelines. Also, some settings and permissions are buried deep in menus, so it takes a while to find things unless you use it regularly. The UI could use a bit more polish in places. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?

GitLab helps my team keep all our DevOps work in one place, making collaboration between developers, testers, and operations much smoother. We no longer need to rely on separate tools for CI/CD, version control, and issue tracking—it’s all built into GitLab. This reduces context switching and makes onboarding new team members easier. The automation in pipelines also helps us catch issues earlier and deploy updates faster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sampath K.
SK
Security IAM Engineer II
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: G2 invite
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What do you like best about GitLab?

From an admin eyes , GitLab offers a comprehensive and effective all-in-one DevSecOps platform that minimizes the need to manage multiple toolchains. The centralized user and group management, especially with SAML SSO and SCIM integration for enterprise tiers with almost all IDPs, significantly simplifies access control and identity lifecycle management for Gitlab. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitLab?

Managing Gitlab runner infrastructure (especially for autoscaling or hybrid cloud environments) can be complex and will need close monitoring and resource Altering. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?

Streamline user Access/Group management through SAML SSO (e.g., with JumpCloud in our case) and group-based permission control.

Enforce DevOps policies at scale utilizing the group-level CI templates, compliance pipelines, and audit logs.

Improve security position with built-in code scanning and DAST/SAST capabilities — all automated within the Gitlab pipeline. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

YM
Data Engineer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about GitLab?

I like best about gitlab is version control and ci/cd development and reduce context switching.I also like the role -based controls which make team collabration secure and effective.Its best to integration with other platfroms like data bricks.Also experienced personally the quick response of customer support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitLab?

Gitlab indeed has clean UI but its complexity to establish for new users is overwhelming.Some settings and features are deep layered inside settings and difficult to find and use . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?

This platform solves problems related to collective working, versions, and continuous integration.The benefit I experienced is minimum complexity in managing and development of workflows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Azeem R.
AR
React Native Developer
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: G2 invite
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What do you like best about GitLab?

I find GitLab CI/CD pipelines very intuitive and powerful. Setting up automated tests, deployments, or even custom jobs feels seamless. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitLab?

Compared to GitHub, community and third-party integration support can sometimes feel somewhat limited. That said, once you're familiar with it, the benefits often outweigh the initial learning curve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?

GitLab solves the problem of tool fragmentation by providing an all-in-one DevOps platform. Instead of using separate tools for version control, CI/CD, code review, issue tracking, and security scans, GitLab brings everything into one unified interface Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
UC
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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Review source: G2 invite
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What do you like best about GitLab?

1. Clean UI

2. Quick responsive times for every action

3. All in one place for all your access tokens, repos, pipelines and much more

4. Best customer response

5. Easy navigation and compartmentalization

6. It's easily possible to integrate it with other tools like Slack, GitGuardian, etc

7. My goto tool to use it everyday as a senior engineer, be it code reviews or self review or managing pipelines Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitLab?

I'd like to have a way to quickly connect to support or ask a question to a bot instead or reading through documentation Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?

CI/CD pipelines, integrations with Slack and GitGuardian, Version control and review of MRs + managing team members Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ashutosh A.
AA
Lead Engineering
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: G2 invite
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What do you like best about GitLab?

Setting up our groups and Projects in best manner

Managing my backlogs and features

Managing story and its pipeline and tracking till deployment

Better tracking of Sprint and story movement from grooming to deployment.

Tracking teams logs and hours burned via dashboards for better visibliity Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitLab?

Sometime commands fails and conflict resolution process is uneasy as TFS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?

our daytoday development problems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shravan Kumar K.
SK
Senior Software Engineer
Computer Software
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: G2 invite
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What do you like best about GitLab?

Its an best tool to run pipelines very easily and also take less time to execute the commands in it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitLab?

So far i dont see any drawback with gitlab in my project Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?

Mainly in my project we come across multiple failures due to bad duplicate data issue,gitlab helps u to remove those duplicate bad data by running pipelines in less time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ranjit A.
RA
IMS Devops Engineer
Telecommunications
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about GitLab?

I like how easy it is to create pipelines with jobs and stages, use of variables and the concept of default runners and also ability to configure custom runners. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitLab?

The configuration of default runners is unknown - unless we run a particular command like uname Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?

Prior to using gitlab, i was building my code on a VM. when the VM went down or the network was down I was stuck. Also space was a constraint on VM with multple users using to store their files and build code.

moving to gitlab and having multiple projects eased this situation.

Also with the concept of branches I could have multiple flavors and options to achieve different functionality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Automotive
AA
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: G2 invite
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What do you like best about GitLab?

Its built-in CI/CD pipelines are powerful and easy to configure, enabling seamless automation from code to deployment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitLab?

The UI can feel cluttered at times, and some advanced features require a steep learning curve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?

GitLab consolidates the entire DevOps lifecycle into a single platform, reducing the need for multiple tools. This improves team collaboration, streamlines CI/CD processes, and accelerates delivery while maintaining code quality and security. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Trilok Kumar R.
TR
Senior software engineer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about GitLab?

1. It is a very useful software for code management.

2. We can manage our code of project into gitlab. We can manage our code by creating branch like master, staging, develop, feature and etc.

3. It is a version control software.

4. It is a open source software and easy to implementation. It can be used for DevOps.

5. We can do any integration into gitlab like CI/CD.

6. Many companies are mostly used this software for managing their code and documents as well.

7. This platform is very secure for security and we can track our project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitLab?

1. Sometime we were facing problem like intergration error.

2. There are some command facing issue like merge conflict.

3. We need some public repository on gitlab but unfortunatly it is not present in gitlab. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?

Before using GitLab, we had to manage our code directly on the server. However, this sometimes led to code being accidentally deleted, making recovery very difficult.

With GitLab, we can easily access all our code by using branches and previous commits. This is because GitLab is a version control tool, which is not only reliable but also user-friendly for DevOps teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.