We performed a comparison between GitLab and Harness based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about GitLab, Jenkins, Google and others in Build Automation."The solution is stable."
"Git hosting has an integration with ACD which is why we liked this solution in the first place."
"GitLab is a solution for source code management, container registry, pipelines, testing, and deployment."
"GitLab's best feature is Actions."
"The scalability is good."
"I like GitLab's security and SAS tools."
"The most important features of GitLab for us are issue management and all the CI/CD tools. Another aspect that I love about GitLab is the UI."
"The most valuable feature of GitLab is the ability to upload scripts and make changes when needed and then reupload them. Additionally, the solution is user-friendly."
"It's a highly customizable DevOps tool."
"I believe there's room for improvement in the advanced features, particularly in enhancing the pipeline functionalities."
"This solution could be improved by adding modifications such as slack notifications."
"There is a need to improve or adopt AI into the ecosystem like a co-pilot, which Microsoft has done with GitHub."
"The documentation could be improved to help newcomers better understand things like creating new branches."
"We would like to generate document pages from the sources."
"We have only seen a couple of issues on Gitlab, which we use for building some of the applications."
"We do face issues in our company when we run out of disk space."
"It could have more security integrations and the ability to check the vulnerability of the code. I don't think it is a responsibility of Gitlab, but it would be nice to have more options to integrate with."
"There's also room for improvement in debugging pipeline issues, which can sometimes become complex."
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GitLab is ranked 1st in Build Automation with 70 reviews while Harness is ranked 12th in Build Automation with 1 review. GitLab is rated 8.6, while Harness is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Harness writes "Provides a good graphical interface, but the initial setup process needs improvement ". GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline, SonarQube and Tekton, whereas Harness is most compared with Tekton, Jenkins, Bamboo, TeamCity and Cloudability.
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