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."In Bamboo, build and deployment have been segregated. The build plan and deployment plan are different. When comparing Bamboo to other solutions, the native feature you will not find in another tool, such as Jenkins. They have segregated the build and deployment plan. This means, building the application and deploying it are two separate parts in Bamboo, they have segregated it apart from the UI. This makes the tool a bit better compared to other tools."
"The most valuable features are compiling and deployment."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Bamboo is that it is a good tool for CI/CD integration."
"In my experience Bamboo is scalable."
"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 can do the CI pipeline well."
"Bamboo's integration with the rest of Atlassian's tech tools, like Jira, helps manage the end-to-end development and release process."
"GitLab's best feature is Actions."
"We use the Git repository and tagging feature. We are a product-based company and use this solution to move to a forward or backward tag."
"The solution has an established roadmap that lays out its plans for upgrades over the next two to three years."
"The solution's most valuable feature is that it is compatible with GitHub. The product's integration capabilities are sufficient for our small company of 35 people."
"Key features allow creation of well-presented Wiki that includes ideas, development, and domains."
"The most valuable feature of GitLab is its convenience. I am able to trace back most of my changes up to a far distance in time and it helps me to analyze and see the older version of the code."
"The initial setup of GitLab is pretty simple, with no complications."
"I find the features and version control history to be most valuable for our development workflow. These aspects provide us with a clear view of changes and help us manage requests efficiently."
"The marketing strategy of Bamboo is an area of concern where improvements are needed."
"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."
"It's a little outdated. It's three years old."
"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."
"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."
"It should be much easier to use. It shouldn't require a lot of reading to be able to use it. It should have just two or three screens rather than hundreds of screens requiring a lot of clicking. It also requires a lot of integration. It has a steep learning curve. It takes a lot of time to understand and put in the data. There is also no proper training."
"Scalability depends on the use case. If it is really a big customer with a lot of tests, it might not be a scalable option for them."
"Some of the scripts that we encountered in GitLab were not fully functional and threw up errors."
"Based on what I know so far, its integration with Kubernetes is not so good. We have to develop many things to make it work. We have to acquire third-party components to work with Kubernetes."
"The user interface could be more user-friendly. We do most of our operations through the website interface but it could be better."
"We have only seen a couple of issues on Gitlab, which we use for building some of the applications."
"I've noticed an area for improvement in GitLab, particularly needing to go through many steps to push the code to the repository. Resolving that issue would make the product better. My team quickly fixed it by writing a small script, then double-clicking or enabling the script to take care of the issue. However, that quick fix was from my team and not the GitLab team, so in the next release, if an automatic deployment feature would be available in GitLab, then that would be good because, in Visual Studio, you can do that with just one click of a button."
"GitLab can improve by integrating with more tools, such as servers with Docker."
"Perhaps the integration could be better."
"Even if I say I want some improvement, they will say it is already planned in the first quarter, second quarter, or third quarter. That said, most everything is quite improved already, and they're improving even further still."
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 AWS CodePipeline, 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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