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GitLab

byGitLab
in
4.4
2026
Market Presence: DevOps Platforms (Transitioning to DevSecOps Platforms), Enterprise Agile Planning Tools

Overview

Product Information on GitLab

Updated 22nd November 2023

What is GitLab?

GitLab is a comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps platform for software innovation. Through a single application with a common data store for the entire DevSecOps lifecycle, GitLab enables seamless and efficient agile software delivery from planning to deployment with complete visibility and traceability, helping organizations deliver software faster. With GitLab, customers can: (1) plan & track complex initiatives with multi-level work item hierarchies, (2) visualize progress of initiatives on flexible issue/ epic boards and over time via roadmaps, (3) code, collaborate and track development of a work item, (4) optimize team delivery with DORA and DevSecOps metrics from the Value Stream Dashboard,(5) maximize team collaboration with out of the box functionality for Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) and Disciplined Agile frameworks.

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Overall experience with GitLab

IT Services Associate
50M - 250M USD, IT Services
FAVORABLE

“Comprehensive DevOps platform with powerful CI/CD, great for scaling teams.”

4.0
Aug 12, 2025
GitLab is a powerful platform for managing source code, streamlining CI/CD, and enabling team collaboration. The product provides a centralized environment for version control, code reviews, and automated deployments, which has significantly improved our development workflows.
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
250M - 500M USD, Software
CRITICAL

“Powerful CI/CD and Code Review Offset By Slow Interface and Search Issues”

3.0
Aug 18, 2025
While the version control and repository management are excellent, the user interface can feel slow and cluttered at times, especially when navigating through a complex project with many pipelines.

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2025
For Market:
DevOps Platforms (Transitioning to DevSecOps Platforms)
2026
For Market:
Application Security Posture Management (ASPM) Tools

About Company

Company Description

Updated 20th November 2023

GitLab is a comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps platform for software innovation. As a software delivery platform for development, security, and operations teams, GitLab brings security and compliance to AI-powered workflows throughout the software delivery lifecycle, helping customers deliver secure software faster. GitLab Duo, the company’s suite of AI capabilities, improves team collaboration and reduces the security and compliance risks of AI adoption by bringing the entire software development lifecycle into a single AI-powered application that is privacy-first. With GitLab, customers can visualize their end-to-end value streams, boost developer productivity with out-of-the-box analytics, and secure their software supply chain with SAST, DAST, secret detection, container scanning, and API testing. It enables organizations to increase developer productivity, improve operational efficiency, and accelerate cloud transformations to maximize the overall return on software development.

Company Details

Updated 26th February 2025
Company type
Public
Year Founded
2014
Head office location
United States
Number of employees
1001 - 5000
Website
https://about.gitlab.com/

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GitLab Likes & Dislikes

Like

All-in-one DevOps platform - Integrated issue tracking, repository hosting, CI/CD pipelines, and package registry in one place. Powerful CI/CD capabilities - Flexible pipeline configuration and automation save significant time. Strong access controls and security features - Built in code scanning and permissions management ensure compliance.

Like

CI/CD integration is great, being powerful and easy to configure. The ability to manage permissions granularly is great to ensure security Code reviews are excellent, super intuitive allowing for easy discussion of code changes.

Like

The scalability of the total services. We have grown with the product and never had the problem of a too big or too small sized solution. We enjoy every process because many things are configurable and we can tailor the solution directly to our needs.

Dislike

Performance issues on large projects - Page load times and search performance slow down with heavy repositories Complexity for new users - The rich feature set can be overwhelming without proper onboarding UI/UX inconsistencies - some menus and settings are nested in ways that make them hard to locate quickly.

Dislike

UI performance can be sluggish User Interface becomes cluttered when there are complex projects Search results can be inconsistent

Dislike

Some update processes of our own hosted infrastructure have failed over the years of use. It has gotten much better in the last versions of the product but this is the only dislike which I can find for now.

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Peer Discussions

What Your Peers Are Saying About GitLab

Director of Information Security
Best Practices to create a SBOM with EOS/EOL Timeline to aid vulnerability remediation (currently use GitLab as our pipeline and Nexus repository).
Group Director of Information Security
It's a 5-step process which you will need to correlate for your environment. 1. Integrate dependency scanners (e.g., GitLab's built-in scanner, Trivy, Snyk, OWASP Dependency-Check or your existing Nexus repo) to flag outdated dependencies and use GitLab’s security dashboard to monitor deprecated packages. 2. Set up GitLab CI/CD rules to fail builds if EOL/EOS dependencies are detected and enforce allow/block lists for dependencies using GitLab’s security policies. 3. Configure GitLab to generate reports when a dependency is approaching its EOL and see if you can use GitLab’s webhook integrations to notify security teams via Slack, email, or Jira. 4. Implement dependency auto-updating tools (e.g., Renovate, Dependabot) to replace (identified & manually verified) EOL/EOS components. If no direct upgrade path exists, isolate the outdated component via containerization or sandboxing. 5. Maintain a historical record of all SBOMs and EOL/EOS alerts for compliance audits (ISO 27001, NIST, etc.). Regularly conduct security reviews using GitLab’s security reports.
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IT Analyst
What has been your experience utilizing GITLAB (not GITHUB) to implement CI/CD for Athena and AWS GLUE, specifically for a process to transfer changes in Athena Views from the development environment to production?
CTO
We have used gitlab CI CD pipelines using terraform for all AWS resources, not athena or glue specifically though.
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GitLab Reviews and Ratings

Showing data for 516 ratings and reviews for Enterprise Agile Planning Tools market. View all 1430 ratings and reviews across markets for a complete picture.

4.4

(516 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
45%
4 Star
51%
3 Star
4%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
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Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.4

Integration & Deployment

4.5

Service & Support

4.4

Product Capabilities

4.5

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  • IT Services Associate
    50M-1B USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Comprehensive DevOps platform with powerful CI/CD, great for scaling teams.

    4.0
    Aug 11, 2025
    GitLab is a powerful platform for managing source code, streamlining CI/CD, and enabling team collaboration. The product provides a centralized environment for version control, code reviews, and automated deployments, which has significantly improved our development workflows.
  • IT Support
    <50M USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Scalability and Configuration Highlighted as Strengths in Software Development Tool

    5.0
    Aug 18, 2025
    We are using GitLab to develop our software and we are very satisfied with the tool. We also use many build- and testrunner to verify our code and the code reviews are done within our programming departments
  • Software Developer
    <50M USD
    Media
    Review Source

    GitLab is a powerful all-in-one platform for modern software development

    5.0
    Aug 19, 2025
    The platform is reliable, easy to use, and provides powerful tools for version control, CI/CD, and team collaboration. It has streamlined our development process and improved efficiency.
  • Head of IT Architecture
    50M-1B USD
    Media
    Review Source

    GitLab Offers Extensive CI/CD Features With Notable Advantages for On-Premise Use

    4.0
    Aug 7, 2025
    GitLab provides a complete suite of functionalities for managing CI/CD and source code management even for large companies. It's easy to use and is an essential tool for efficient development teamwork.
  • SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT MANAGER
    <50M USD
    Software
    Review Source

    Integrated DevSecOps Workflow Offers Power But Can Be Complex And Costly

    5.0
    Aug 14, 2025
    GitLab is an excellent choice if your goal is to consolidate your tech stack and build a cohesive, automated DevSecOps workflow. You trade a bit of simplicity and single-purpose polish for a highly integrated, secure, and powerful development environment.
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