We performed a comparison between Automic Continuous Delivery Automation and GitLab based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Release Automation solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The capability to provide visibility to the stakeholders, to management, is the biggest piece that showcases what the solution is about."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to see which problems have been resolved from deployment."
"It gives us good feedback on visualizations and on how our processes have progressed."
"Deployment workflow (WF) can be designed this way, so that it is not necessary to provide all applications (systems) artifacts of which an application consists."
"The event monitor is very good. You can monitor when the file is created so you can pick up the file once it's done."
"Gives people insight into what's happening during the deployment."
"It provides a wonderful user interface which is easy to use."
"We have saved on our time costs and have seen more quality."
"It is very useful for reviews. We are using branch merging operations and full reset operations. It is also very useful for merging our code and tracking another branch. The graph diagrams of Git are very useful. Its interface is straightforward and not too complex for us."
"The most valuable features of GitLab are the review, patch repo, and plans are in YAML."
"We like that we can create branches and then the branches can be reviewed and you can mesh those branches back. You can independently work with your own branch, you don't need to really control the core of other people."
"We use the Git repository and tagging feature. We are a product-based company and use this solution to move to a forward or backward tag."
"GitLab is kind of an image of GitHub, so it gives us the flexibility to monitor our changes in the repos."
"The solution's most valuable feature is that it is compatible with GitHub. The product's integration capabilities are sufficient for our small company of 35 people."
"Their CI/CD engine is very mature. It's very comprehensive and flexible, and compared to other projects, I believe that GitLab is number one right now from that perspective."
"A user friendly solution."
"If you have a technical problem and need development of the tool, the support team is terrible, because they cannot help with the technical details."
"It would be very beneficial for us to see integrations into cloud environments, especially into the Google Cloud environment because we are heading towards cloud."
"Not a perfect ten because the user interface is brand new and it needs improvement."
"GUI for mobile phones: Availability to approve and start deployment through mobile phones."
"We hope that we can integrate the new CD Directive into our portfolio, so we can bring the deployment and release management closer together."
"At the moment, the version that we are using (version 12.0), the environment is complex with multiple installations. Therefore, the monitoring is not scalable, but this should be improved in 12.1 and 12.2."
"I would like to see more support for WebSphere."
"The dashboard should allow you to see the current state of packages in each environment, not only on an individual application basis, but across the entire application platform."
"GitLab can improve by integrating with more tools, such as servers with Docker."
"The initial setup was quite challenging because it takes some time to understand how to pull out or push the code."
"I would like to see static analysis also embedded in GitLab. That would also help us. If there's something that it does internally by GitLab and then that is already tied up with your pipeline and then it can tell you that you're coding is good or your code is not great. Based on that, it would pass or fail. That should be streamlined. I would think that would help to a greater extent, in terms of having one solution rather than depending on multiple vendors."
"The solution does not have many built-in functions or variables so scripting is required."
"GitLab's Windows version is yet not available and having this would be an improvement."
"It would be better if there weren't any outages. There are occasions where we usually see a lot of outages using GitLab. It happens at least once a week or something like that. Whatever pipelines you're running, to check the logs, you need to have a different set of tools like Argus or something like that. If you have pipelines running on GitLab, you need a separate service deployed to view the logs, which is kind of a pain. If the logs can be used conveniently on GitLab, that would be definitely helpful. I'm not talking about the CI/CD pipelines but the back-end services and microservices deployed over GitLab. To view the logs for those microservices, you need to have separate log viewers, which is kind of a pain."
"Expand features to match other tools such as a static code analysis tool so third-party integrations are not required."
"The documentation could be improved to help newcomers better understand things like creating new branches."
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Automic Continuous Delivery Automation is ranked 17th in Release Automation while GitLab is ranked 2nd in Release Automation with 70 reviews. Automic Continuous Delivery Automation is rated 8.0, while GitLab is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Automic Continuous Delivery Automation writes "Reduces our time to market considerably with automated and consistent results". On the other hand, the top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". Automic Continuous Delivery Automation is most compared with Nolio Release Automation and UrbanCode Deploy, whereas GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Bamboo, SonarQube, AWS CodePipeline and Tekton. See our Automic Continuous Delivery Automation vs. GitLab report.
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