We performed a comparison between GitLab and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Release Automation solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is scalable."
"CI/CD is valuable for me."
"The most important features of GitLab for us are issue management and all the CI/CD tools. Another aspect that I love about GitLab is the UI."
"The most valuable features of Gitlab are integration with CIE and the ability to rapidly deploy solutions, projects, and applications. It is very easy to use, and there are no complaints."
"The important feature is the entire process of versioning source code maintenance and easy deployment. It is a necessity for the CI/CD pipeline."
"The SaaS setup is impressive, and it has DAST solutioning."
"CI/CD is very good. The version control system is also good. These are the two features that we use."
"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 initial setup is easy and takes a few hours to complete."
"It has made our infrastructure more testable. We are able to build our infrastructure in CI, then are more confident in what we are deploying will work, not breaking everything."
"It's nice to have the Dashboard where people can see it, have it report to our ELK stack. It's far more convenient, and we can trigger it with API and schedules, which is better than doing it with a whole bunch of scripts."
"The automation is the most valuable feature."
"Its checking and validating ensures our packages are properly patched."
"Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is quite stable. If you set it up correctly with the right configurations and there are no hiccups during installation and deployment, it will be stable. I'd give stability a rating of eight out of ten."
"I like the agentless feature. This means we don't install any agent in worker nodes."
"The solution is capable of integrating with many applications and devices in comparison to BigFix."
"GitLab would be improved with the addition of templates for deployment on local PCs."
"The solution should again offer an on-premises deployment option."
"We have only seen a couple of issues on Gitlab, which we use for building some of the applications."
"The only thing our company is really waiting on in terms of features is the development of metrics."
"The price of GitLab could improve, it is high."
"Perhaps the integration could be better."
"This solution could be improved by adding modifications such as slack notifications."
"For as long as I have used GitLab, I haven't encountered any major limitations. However, I think that perhaps the search functionality could be better."
"The job workflow needs to be worked on. It's not really clear to how you actually link things together. What they probably could do is provide an example workflow on how to stitch things together. I think that would be very helpful."
"For a couple of the API integrations, there has been a lack of documentation."
"The solution should add a nice self-service portal."
"It is a little slow on the network side because every time you call a module, it's initiating an SSH or an API call to a network device, and it just slows things down."
"Networking needs to be improved."
"There is always room for improvement in features or customer support."
"Improvements should be made in terms of execution speed, which is, I believe, the most lacking feature. Aside from that, re-triggering a failed task is another useful feature."
"Additional features could be added."
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GitLab is ranked 2nd in Release Automation with 70 reviews while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is ranked 3rd in Release Automation with 62 reviews. GitLab is rated 8.6, while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform writes "Makes it easy to build playbooks and saves time and resources". GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, SonarQube, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline and Tekton, whereas Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is most compared with Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager, VMware Aria Automation, Microsoft Azure DevOps and Microsoft Intune. See our GitLab vs. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform report.
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