"The most valuable feature of GitLab is its security."
"GitLab offers a good interface for doing code reviews between two colleagues."
"CI/CD is very good. The version control system is also good. These are the two features that we use."
"This product is always evolving, and they listen to the customers."
"We like that we can have an all-encompassing product and don't have to implement different solutions."
"GitLab is being used as a repository for our codebase and it is a one stop DevOps tool we use in our team."
"It speeds up our development, it's faster, safer, and more convenient."
"As a developer, this solution is useful as a repository holder because most of the POC projects that we have are on GitLab."
"We really like the Nexus Firewall. There are increasing threats from npm, rogue components, and we've been able to leverage protection there. We also really like being able to know which of our apps has known vulnerabilities."
"Sonatype support is quite responsive. When we needed something, we could reach out and set up a meeting. They provide the best support possible."
"The most important features of the Sonatype Nexus Lifecycle are the vulnerability reports."
"Vulnerability detection accuracy is good."
"The quality or the profiles that you can set are most valuable. The remediation of issues that you can do and how the information is offered is also valuable."
"Its engine itself is most valuable in terms of the way it calculates and decides whether a security vulnerability exists or not. That's the most important thing. Its security is also pretty good, and its listing about the severities is also good."
"The value I get from IQ Server is that I get information on real business risks. Is something compliant, are we using the proper license?"
"The integrations into developer tooling are quite nice. I have the integration for Eclipse and for Visual Studio. Colleagues are using the Javascript IDE from JetBrains called WebStorm and there is an integration for that from Nexus Lifecycle. I have not heard about anything that is not working. It's also quite easy to integrate it. You just need to set up a project or an app and then you just make the connection in all the tools you're using."
"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."
"GitLab's Windows version is yet not available and having this would be an improvement."
"The documentation could be improved to help newcomers better understand things like creating new branches."
"The solution could improve by providing more integration into the CI/CD pipeline, an autocomplete search tool, and more supporting documentation."
"The only thing our company is really waiting on in terms of features is the development of metrics."
"We are having a few problems integrating with Jira at the moment, which is something that our IT department is investigating."
"It can be free for commercial use."
"Reporting could be improved."
"Sonatype Nexus Lifecycle can improve the functionality. Some functionalities are missing from the UI that could be accessed using the API but they are not available. For example, seeing more than the 100 first reports or, seeing your comments when you process a waiver for a vulnerability or a violation."
"In the beginning, we sometimes struggle to access the customer environment. The customer must issue the required certificates because many customers use cell phone certificates, and Sonatype needs a valid CA certificate."
"We got a lot of annotations for certain libraries when it comes to Java, but my feeling, and the feeling of a colleague as well, is that we don't get as many for critical libraries when it comes to .NET, as if most of them are really fine... It would be good if Sonatype would check the status of annotations for .NET packages."
"Nexus Lifecycle is multiple products. One drawback I've noticed is that there are some differences in the features between the products within Lifecycle. They need to maintain the same structure, but there are some slight differences."
"Overall it's good, but it would be good for our JavaScript front-end developers to have that IDE integration for their libraries. Right now, they don't, and I'm told by my Sonatype support rep that I need to submit an idea, from which they will submit a feature request. I was told it was already in the pipeline, so that was one strike against sales."
"The user interface needs to be improved. It is slow for us. We use Nexus IQ mostly via APIs. We don't use the interface that much, but when we use it, certain areas are just unresponsive or very slow to load. So, performance-wise, the UI is not fast enough for us, but we don't use it that much anyway."
"The solution is not an SaaS product."
"The team managing Nexus Lifecycle reported that their internal libraries were not being identified, so they have asked Sonatype's technical team to include that in the upcoming version."
GitLab is ranked 2nd in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) with 26 reviews while Sonatype Nexus Lifecycle is ranked 4th in Software Composition Analysis (SCA) with 9 reviews. GitLab is rated 8.2, while Sonatype Nexus Lifecycle is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of GitLab writes "A double-sided solution for both DevOps and version management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Sonatype Nexus Lifecycle writes "Helps us drive down our technical debt due to components with known issues". GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, TeamCity, Tekton, AWS CodePipeline and GoCD, whereas Sonatype Nexus Lifecycle is most compared with SonarQube, Snyk, Black Duck, Mend and JFrog Xray. See our GitLab vs. Sonatype Nexus Lifecycle report.
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