GitLab Duo

GitLab is an all-purpose AI-infused DevSecOps platform that's designed to unite teams in a single application. It's intended to help teams deliver software fast while keeping security in mind by automating software delivery and protecting the end-to-end software supply chain.

The company offers a number of features to streamline the toolchain and speed up software delivery. Among them:

• Development: Automated tasks to increase efficiency, continuous integration and delivery, AI-infused workflows with GitLab Duo, and source code management.
• Security: Threat vector management, compliance standards, and security integration with features like vulnerability and dependency management.
• Operations: Software deployment automation, process optimization and GitOps and infrastructure as code for cloud native, multi-cloud or legacy environments.

The platform is designed to build security into the DevSecOps lifecycle, with a broad set of tools to manage the software supply chain. GitLab Duo, an AI-powered assistant, helps teams at every stage of the process, from coding and testing to security, documentation and governance.

Pricing depends on how much support you need:

• Free: Good for personal projects, with 5GiB storage, 10GiB transfer per month, 400 compute minutes per month and a limit of 5 users per top-level group.
• Premium: Good for growing organizations, at $29 per user/month (annual billing), with Code Ownership, Merge Requests with Approval Rules and Advanced CI/CD.
• Ultimate: Good for enterprises, with extra features like Suggested Reviewers, Dynamic Application Security Testing and Enterprise Agile Planning, with pricing available on request.
• Add-ons: GitLab Duo Pro ($19 per user/month) and Enterprise ($39 per user/month) add more AI smarts, like code suggestions, chat and security tools.

Case studies show the benefits, including Iron Mountain's $150k per year in cost savings and Lockheed Martin's 80x faster CI pipeline builds. UBS and Singleron also reported better collaboration, project tracking and automated deployment.

GitLab is good for anyone trying to modernize their software development and delivery process. But it's especially good for large enterprises and those that need more advanced security.

Published on June 23, 2024