We performed a comparison between GitLab and Spinnaker 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."The solution's most valuable feature is that it is compatible with GitHub. The product's integration capabilities are sufficient for our small company of 35 people."
"For us, Gitlab's most valuable feature is the integration with Cypress. We're using Cypress as an automation tool, so we're using GitLab as a tool for running in parallel."
"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."
"This product is always evolving, and they listen to the customers."
"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."
"CI/CD and GitLab scanning are the most valuable features."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of GitLab is its security."
"The most valuable feature of Spinnaker is the rollback."
"There is a good community around the product that makes troubleshooting possible."
"GitLab can improve by integrating with more tools, such as servers with Docker."
"It is a little complex to set up the pipelines within the solution."
"The user interface could be more user-friendly. We do most of our operations through the website interface but it could be better."
"Their RBAC is role-based access, which is fine but not very good."
"As a partner, sometimes it's difficult to get support. They have a really complicated procedure for their support."
"GitLab could consider introducing a code-scanning tool. Purchasing such tools from external markets can incur charges, which might not be favorable. Integrating these features into GitLab would streamline the pipeline and make it more convenient for users."
"GitLab would be improved with the addition of templates for deployment on local PCs."
"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."
"Spinnaker's configuration setup is too complicated and should be made easy."
"Log-wise, we need to understand why something has failed so that we can understand and try to fix it the moment the issue is reported. The solution could use more robust monitoring."
GitLab is ranked 2nd in Release Automation with 70 reviews while Spinnaker is ranked 7th in Release Automation with 2 reviews. GitLab is rated 8.6, while Spinnaker is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Spinnaker writes "Good integrations, a helpful user community, and good reliability". GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Bamboo, SonarQube, AWS CodePipeline and Tekton, whereas Spinnaker is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, AWS CodeDeploy, UrbanCode Deploy and Octopus Deploy. See our GitLab vs. Spinnaker report.
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