GitLab is a web-based Git repository manager with code reviews, issue tracking, activity feeds, wikis. GitLab is close to GitHub, but GitLab is released under an open source license (MIT license).
GitLab is used by more than 100,000 organizations, and can cope with 25,000 users on a single server. A subscription gives you access to the company’s support team and to GitLab Enterprise Edition that contains extra features aimed at larger organizations.
There are two versions of GitLab: Community Edition and Enterprise Edition. The Community Edition (released under an open source license) behaves functionally the same as the Enterprise Edition. From 5 June 2018, GitLab Ultimate and Gold are now free for educational institutions and open source projects.
GNOME has recently moved 400 software projects to GitLab.
Features include:
- Beautifully designed.
- Dashboard that allows teams measure the time it takes to go from planning to monitoring.
- Group your repositories.
- Issue tracker – quickly set the status, assignee or milestone for multiple issues at the same time or easily filter them on any properties. See milestones and issues across projects.
- Issue Boards, each list of an Issue Board is based on a label that exists in your issue tracker.
- With GitLab Issue Boards, you can create issues directly from the board and assign multiple labels allowing them to appear on multiple boards.
- Drag and drop tasks.
- Source code search.
- Fine grained permission management. Set and modify people’s permissions according to their role.
- Contributor statistics.
- Built-in Continuous Integration/Delivery. Use it to build, test, and deploy your website (GitLab Pages) or webapp. The job results are displayed on merge requests for easy access.
- Mattermost can be automatically installed and integrated using GitLab Omnibus.
- Import from Bitbucket, GitHub, Google Code, FogBugz, Gitea anywhere.
- Export projects to other systems.
- Collects and displays performance metrics for deployed apps, leveraging Prometheus.
- Wide range of 3rd party integrations.
- IPv6 ready.
Website: about.gitlab.com
Support: Blog
Developer: GitLab Inc.
License: MIT Expat License (Community Edition), Commercial (Enterprise Edition)
GitLab is written in Ruby and Go. Learn Ruby with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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