GitLab

GitLab is an all-in-one, AI-infused DevSecOps platform that unifies teams in a single application to plan, create and deliver secure software. It's designed to help teams find a balance between speed and security, automating software delivery and security across the entire software supply chain.

With GitLab, customers can consolidate their toolchain by having all the necessary DevSecOps tools in one place. Automation and AI-powered workflows increase productivity by automating tasks, including continuous integration and delivery, source code management, and software supply chain security. The platform can be deployed in a variety of environments, including cloud native, multi-cloud and legacy, to ensure flexibility and minimize vendor lock-in.

Some of the key features of GitLab include:

• Development: Automated tasks increase efficiency and security, with continuous integration and delivery, AI-powered workflows and source code management.
• Security: Protect against threat vectors and ensure compliance standards with security and compliance tools, software supply chain security, integrated testing and vulnerability management.
• Operations: Automate software deployment and optimize processes with GitOps, infrastructure as code and analytics for better insights.

Customers can benefit from increased developer productivity and better automation. Security is built end-to-end, with features like DAST, fuzz testing and API scanning. Compliance management and policy customization help ensure separation of duties and customized approval rules.

GitLab can be used for a variety of use cases, including large-scale enterprise workloads and cloud-native deployments. It offers a variety of plans, from free to premium, with different levels of compute minutes, pipeline features and analytics capabilities.

Pricing tiers include:

• Free: 400 compute minutes per month, CI/CD for GitLab-hosted repositories.
• Premium: 10,000 compute minutes per month, CI/CD for external repositories, CI/CD Pipelines Dashboards and Merge Trains.
• Ultimate: 50,000 compute minutes per month, Value Stream Dashboards, DORA Metrics and Auto Rollback in case of failure.

GitLab has been named a Leader by Gartner and Forrester, and has received praise from large customers including Lockheed Martin, Iron Mountain and UBS. It's good for teams of all sizes, from small startups to large enterprises, that want to modernize their software development and delivery processes.

Published on July 11, 2024