"The most valuable features of Gitlab are integration with CIE and the ability to rapidly deploy solutions, projects, and applications. It is very easy to use, and there are no complaints."
"Everything is easy to configure and easy to work with."
"It speeds up our development, it's faster, safer, and more convenient."
"GitLab is very useful for pipelines, continuous integration, and continuous deployment. It is also stable."
"We like that we can have an all-encompassing product and don't have to implement different solutions."
"A user friendly solution."
"GitLab offers a good interface for doing code reviews between two colleagues."
"The best thing is that as the developers work on separate tasks, all of the code goes there and the other team members don't have to wait on each other to finish."
"Some of the valuable features are the interface and the workflows are easy to learn and to manage."
"I definitely like the pipelines and the ease of management once you're in an enterprise."
"We can forecast tasks and the number of hours a task will take and can compare it with how long a task actually takes."
"Some of the most valuable features are the ease of use and the ability to monitor a lot of things. It has a lot of applications and facilities that meet all the developers' requirements. For example, we can use application insights to get an idea of our application's performance. Since it's cloud-based, it's really good for collaboration and working as a team."
"This platform provides a large span of tools and technologies."
"The most valuable feature is the complete integration between test cases, pipelines, and issue management."
"The reports have been most valuable. We have created some dashboards allowing us to be able to check our teams, their progress, and mission plans."
"Azure is an advantage when working with other Microsoft solutions."
"We would like to generate document pages from the sources."
"Based on what I know so far, its integration with Kubernetes is not so good. We have to develop many things to make it work. We have to acquire third-party components to work with Kubernetes."
"Reporting could be improved."
"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."
"It would be really good if they integrated more features in application security."
"In the free version, when a merge request is raised, there is no way to enforce certain rules. We can't enforce that this merge request must be reviewed or approved by two or three people in the team before it is pushed to the master branch. That's why we are exploring using some agents."
"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."
"I would like to see better integration with project management tools such as Jira."
"There are some areas that need improvement such as tracking."
"If they could build up requirement traceability metrics, then it would be great."
"They have to add more features such as schedules and more flexibility in the platform."
"With Microsoft, I would prefer to have more test plans. It's very difficult to find individual test plan module training."
"The dashboards need bigger with better extensions and layouts. There isn't a workflow related to the statuses on the dashboard. It only lists the statuses. You can have one started, and once done, but everything in between is only in progress and could be in any order you want, it lacks flow."
"I would like to automate notifications on sprint planning. When we are getting to the end of sprint planning, we would be automatically notified."
"We would like some bidirectional synchronization. It's the requirement if you want to analyze it to software requirements, et cetera. That's something that most of the tools aren't that good at."
"Some things like project management, tasks, progress, and having work progress views require us to use some external tools, or to create our own internal tools. These are not native to DevOps. It would be ideal if, instead of searching for third-party solutions, they had these feature sets or capabilities included under DevOps."
GitLab is ranked 3rd in Release Automation with 16 reviews while Microsoft Azure DevOps is ranked 1st in Release Automation with 77 reviews. GitLab is rated 8.2, while Microsoft Azure DevOps is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of GitLab writes "Provides or mandates quantitative code into the Master". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure DevOps writes "Robust functionality, good integration, continually enhanced, and easy to scale". GitLab is most compared with TeamCity, Tekton, Sonatype Nexus Lifecycle, GoCD and Snyk, whereas Microsoft Azure DevOps is most compared with Jira, TFS, ServiceNow IT Business Management, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Micro Focus ALM Quality Center. See our GitLab vs. Microsoft Azure DevOps report.
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