We performed a comparison between GitLab and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 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."I have had no problem with the stability of the solution."
"It is a speedy platform compared to the others I have used. I have also enjoyed using the platform as this solution offers a good user experience."
"GitLab offers a good interface for doing code reviews between two colleagues."
"The tool helps to integrate CI/CD pipeline deployments. It is very easy to learn. Its security model is good."
"This is a scalable solution. We had around 200 users working with it."
"The dashboard and interface make it easy to use."
"CI/CD is very good. The version control system is also good. These are the two features that we use."
"GitLab is a solution for source code management, container registry, pipelines, testing, and deployment."
"There are new modules available, which help to simplify the workflow. That is what we like about it."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"The most valuable features of the solution are its configuration management, drift management, workflow templates with the visual UI, and graphical workflow representation."
"This solution allows us to stitch a lot of different parts of the workflow together."
"Installing it is a PIP command. So, it's pretty easy. It is a one liner."
"Since it is in YAML, if I have to explain it to somebody else, they can easily understand it."
"We can manage all the configuration consistency between all our servers."
"Some colleagues and other companies use it and comment that it is easy to use, easy to understand, and offers good features."
"Even if I say I want some improvement, they will say it is already planned in the first quarter, second quarter, or third quarter. That said, most everything is quite improved already, and they're improving even further still."
"The initial setup was quite challenging because it takes some time to understand how to pull out or push the code."
"GitLab would be improved with the addition of templates for deployment on local PCs."
"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."
"I would like to see security increased in the future. A secure environment is very important."
"We do face issues in our company when we run out of disk space."
"We have only seen a couple of issues on Gitlab, which we use for building some of the applications."
"There is room for improvement in GitLab Agents."
"The solution is slightly expensive, and its pricing could be improved."
"Networking needs to be improved."
"The tool should allow us to create infrastructure. It has everything when it comes to management, but it lacks the provisioning aspect."
"If we have a problem with some file and we need to get Red Hat to analyze the issue and the file is 100GBs, we'll have an issue since we need to provide a log file for them to analyze. If it is around 12GB or 13GB, we can easily upload it to the Red Hat portal. With more than 100GBs, it will fail. I heard it should cover up to 250GB for an upload, however, I find it fails. Therefore, Red Hat needs to provide a way to handle this."
"It would be good to make the solution more user-friendly,"
"Improvements should be made in terms of execution speed, which is, I believe, the most lacking feature. Aside from that, re-triggering a failed task is another useful feature."
"When you set up Playbooks, I may have one version of the Playbook, but another member of the team may have a different vision, and we will not know which version is correct. We want to have one central repository for managing the different versions of Playbooks, so we can have better collaboration among team members. This is our use case for using Git version control."
"On the Dashboard, when you view a template run, it shows all the output. There is a search filter, but it would be nice to able to select one server in that run and then see all that output from just that one server, instead of having to do the search on that one server and find the results."
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GitLab is ranked 1st in Release Automation with 68 reviews while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is ranked 3rd in Release Automation with 58 reviews. GitLab is rated 8.6, while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform writes "Capable of broad integrations with easy-to-operate infrastructure and user controls". GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline and SonarQube, whereas Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is most compared with Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager, VMware Aria Automation, Microsoft Azure DevOps and Microsoft Intune. See our GitLab vs. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform report.
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