We performed a comparison between Bamboo and GitLab based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Build Automation solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most useful feature of Bamboo is its integration with other solutions such as Jira and BitBucket, also offered by Atlassian. It is easier to use tools all provided by one vendor."
"One of the significant benefits of Bamboo is its built-in support for numerous clients and the ability to tailor its capabilities to your specific requirements. This high level of customization enables you to create pipelines that are ideally suited to your needs, making it an invaluable tool for conducting advanced testing."
"The most valuable features of Bamboo are its performance and UI. Additionally, there are a lot of useful plugins, integration with other solutions, such as Bitbucket and Jira, and a helpful online community."
"It's one of the best solutions in this line of work. We have many Atlassian products. We use Bamboo, JIRA, Service Desk, and some other Atlassian plugins. We like that it's easy to integrate into each other. It's a suite of services."
"One of the big things that made us choose Bamboo, is it seamlessly integrates its APIs into NetSuite, which is our main ELP system."
"It can do the CI pipeline well."
"The most valuable feature of Bamboo is that it is a good tool for CI/CD integration."
"The platform helps us with automated and timely backup. It provides data replication as well."
"I like that it's easy to deploy our services over GitLab. The customer support is also good with a really active community. You have a lot of support that you can get online with your stack. That is probably one of the benefits of using GitLab. It's also really fast."
"Git hosting has an integration with ACD which is why we liked this solution in the first place."
"The SaaS setup is impressive, and it has DAST solutioning."
"The merging feature makes it easy later on for the deployment."
"The scalability is good."
"CI/CD is very good. The version control system is also good. These are the two features that we use."
"We like that we can create branches and then the branches can be reviewed and you can mesh those branches back. You can independently work with your own branch, you don't need to really control the core of other people."
"We have seen a couple of merge requests or pull requests raised in GitLab. I see the interface, the way it shows the difference between the two source codes, that it is easy for anyone to do the review and then accept the request; the pull request is the valuable feature."
"The performance around the deployment feature could be improved."
"The solution needs to support more customization in the training. What's offered is pretty generic. They need better training and should offer more guidance."
"Bamboo is a bit complicated to use compared to other solutions, such as GitLab. You have to integrate different actions that are difficult that could be made easier."
"One area that could be enhanced is the governance process, particularly with regard to building approvals and transitions between stages. In comparison to other solutions, such as Jira, which features a workflow that supports approval processes, this capability is not natively available in Bamboo. To implement this functionality, integration with other solutions, such as GSM may be necessary. Although some add-ons, such as Adaptavist ScriptRunner, are available in the market to circumvent this limitation, they may not offer the exact functionality needed. Therefore, there is certainly room for improvement in this area."
"Bamboo could improve by having compatibility with GitLab. It would be better to have this platform for deploying code and storing container registries. Bamboo does not have a container registry. Additionally, there could be more features added."
"The marketing strategy of Bamboo is an area of concern where improvements are needed."
"It can be challenging for someone new to the system or ecosystem to grasp, making it difficult to train new people and help them understand."
"Bamboo’s technical support services, in terms of speed of response, need improvement."
"GitLab's Windows version is yet not available and having this would be an improvement."
"We'd like to see better integration with the Atlassian ecosystem."
"I'm new to GitLab, so I would appreciate more documentation about the code and commands."
"Atlassian offers more products than GitLab. GitLab offers source control management, version control and collaboration between developers. Atlassian offers features on top of this as well as more integration points for developers."
"I would like to see security increased in the future. A secure environment is very important."
"The integration and storage capabilities could be better."
"We do face issues in our company when we run out of disk space."
"I rate the support from GitLab a four out of five."
Bamboo is ranked 5th in Build Automation with 20 reviews while GitLab is ranked 1st in Build Automation with 70 reviews. Bamboo is rated 7.4, while GitLab is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Bamboo writes "High availability, helpful support, and plenty of plugins available". On the other hand, the top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". Bamboo is most compared with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Harness, Tekton and Microsoft Azure, whereas GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, SonarQube, AWS CodePipeline, Tekton and TeamCity. See our Bamboo vs. GitLab report.
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