We performed a comparison between GitHub Advanced Security and GitLab based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Security Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Dependency scanning is a valuable feature."
"It ensures user passwords or sensitive information are not accidentally exposed in code or reports."
"The product's most valuable features are security scan, dependency scan, and cost-effectiveness."
"GitHub provides advanced security, which is why the customers choose this tool; it allows them to rely solely on GitHub as one platform for everything they need."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution as it can handle new applications along with the analysis part."
"The most valuable is the developer experience and the extensibility of the overall ecosystem."
"CI/CD is very good. The version control system is also good. These are the two features that we use."
"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 most valuable features of GitLab are ease of use and highly intuitive UI and performance."
"This product is always evolving, and they listen to the customers."
"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."
"The merging feature makes it easy later on for the deployment."
"Git hosting has an integration with ACD which is why we liked this solution in the first place."
"GitLab is kind of an image of GitHub, so it gives us the flexibility to monitor our changes in the repos."
"A more refined approach, categorizing and emphasizing specific vulnerabilities, would be beneficial."
"The report limitations are the main issue."
"The deployment part of the product is an area of concern that needs to be made easier from an improvement perspective."
"There could be a centralized dashboard to view reports of all the projects on one platform."
"There could be DST features included in the product."
"The customizations are a little bit difficult."
"The solution should be more cloud-native and have more cloud-native capabilities and features."
"It should be used by a larger number of people. They should raise awareness."
"GitLab can improve the integration with third-party applications. It could be made easier. Additionally, having API control from my application could be helpful."
"In the free version, when a merge request is raised, there is no way to enforce certain rules. We can't enforce that this merge request must be reviewed or approved by two or three people in the team before it is pushed to the master branch. That's why we are exploring using some agents."
"Some of the scripts that we encountered in GitLab were not fully functional and threw up errors."
"GitLab could add a plugin to integrate with Kubernetes stuff."
"The price of GitLab could improve, it is high."
"It could have more security integrations and the ability to check the vulnerability of the code. I don't think it is a responsibility of Gitlab, but it would be nice to have more options to integrate with."
GitHub Advanced Security is ranked 14th in Application Security Tools with 6 reviews while GitLab is ranked 7th in Application Security Tools with 70 reviews. GitHub Advanced Security is rated 9.0, while GitLab is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of GitHub Advanced Security writes "A tool that provides ease of integration with the set of existing codes in an infrastructure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". GitHub Advanced Security is most compared with SonarQube, Snyk, Veracode, Fortify on Demand and GitGuardian Platform, whereas GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, SonarQube, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline and Tekton. See our GitHub Advanced Security vs. GitLab report.
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