Made DevOps possible for my company

Easy to use, comprehensive, open-source tool for project management

We have set up and customized GitLab on our own servers in order to manage a project where digital marketing, software, devops, human resources and many teams work together. This really relieved us of a great burden. Everyone's own project management area on GitLab was clear, besides, the issues and projects that they needed to work on were also very clear. We can follow many processes such as product development, project management, task tracking in a sustainable way. It also serves as a great archive for people who join the team later.

Pros

GitLab is an easy to use and versatile project management tool. As a team, we use it not only for software development projects, but also for the follow-up of our other projects. It is really great that it is customizable, you can simplify your interface for your teammates who cannot use complex applications. This offers you a more user-friendly product.

Cons

It's a little harder for people other than engineers to adapt. You shouldn't expect traditional drag-and-drop kanban boards. It's a bit of a technical product. But if we consider that the intended use of the product, this is really normal, not a big minus.

GitLab is my go to choice for hosting private repositories!

Pros

These are the things that I like the most in GitLab: - The max repository size is 10GB compared to 1GB that GitHub offers - Unlike GitHub, GitLab supports private pages for private repositories

Cons

GitLab can improve in the following areas: - Merge requests in GitHub look relatively cleaner - Provide better themes for wiki

Gitlab as a source code management tool

Gitlab has enabled analyst programmers to carry out a centralized versioning of applications. And it has allowed us to manage the projects.

Pros

Gitlab allows us to have a centralized repository of the source code of the institution's applications

Cons

We would like gitlab to have greater integration with other tools on the market.

GitLab for DevOps and Automation Activities

We entegrated it reporting tools as well. We are getting commit counts, pipeline usage etc and create reports in Kibana / Tableau.

Pros

It is a great tool to use for creating a baseline for source code management, versioning, and backwards revision history. It is possible to apply branchin strategy as you wish. We used it in our DevOps & Automation activities with entegrating a bunch of other tools.

Cons

Sometimes it is very difficult to manage the conflicts in the merge requests coming from different branches to the main branch specially if a lot of developers working in parallel.