We performed a comparison between GitLab and IBM Rational Build Forge based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about GitLab, Jenkins, Google and others in Build Automation."Git hosting has an integration with ACD which is why we liked this solution in the first place."
"The SaaS setup is impressive, and it has DAST solutioning."
"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."
"Everything is easy to configure and easy to work with."
"I find the features and version control history to be most valuable for our development workflow. These aspects provide us with a clear view of changes and help us manage requests efficiently."
"The most valuable feature of GitLab is its convenience. I am able to trace back most of my changes up to a far distance in time and it helps me to analyze and see the older version of the code."
"The code merging capability is something that we use very frequently."
"We like that we can have an all-encompassing product and don't have to implement different solutions."
"All features are useful. Our customer doesn't have any complaints about the tool. It works pretty well for what they want and what they need to do."
"Very good reporting features."
"GitLab's UI could be improved."
"I've noticed an area for improvement in GitLab, particularly needing to go through many steps to push the code to the repository. Resolving that issue would make the product better. My team quickly fixed it by writing a small script, then double-clicking or enabling the script to take care of the issue. However, that quick fix was from my team and not the GitLab team, so in the next release, if an automatic deployment feature would be available in GitLab, then that would be good because, in Visual Studio, you can do that with just one click of a button."
"The initial setup was quite challenging because it takes some time to understand how to pull out or push the code."
"The solution does not have many built-in functions or variables so scripting is required."
"I would like to have some features to support peer review."
"GitLab could improve the patch repository. It does not have support for Conan patch version regions. Additionally, better support for Kubernetes deployment is needed as part of the package."
"We would like to have easier tutorials. Their tutorials are too technical for a user to understand. They should be more detailed but less technical."
"There is room for improvement in GitLab Agents."
"Its logging can be improved. When something goes wrong, it is not always very easy to find the problem. It is hard to identify whether the problem is because of low memory in the server or some configuration in Rational Build Forge. The error logs are not very detailed, and they should provide more information. It should also have more integration with third-party tools. It would be great to have more integration with third-party tools."
"Not user friendly for the layman."
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GitLab is ranked 1st in Build Automation with 70 reviews while IBM Rational Build Forge is ranked 19th in Build Automation. GitLab is rated 8.6, while IBM Rational Build Forge is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Rational Build Forge writes "Great reporting features and very functional". GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline, SonarQube and Tekton, whereas IBM Rational Build Forge is most compared with Jenkins, Bamboo and Digital.ai Release .
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