We performed a comparison between GitLab and Spinnaker 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 very flexible and easy because you can store data on cloud."
"GitLab is very well-organized and easy to use. Also, it offers most features that customers need."
"CI/CD is very good. The version control system is also good. These are the two features that we use."
"I like GitLab from the CI/CD perspective. It is much easier to set up CI/CD and then integrate with other tools."
"The dashboard and interface make it easy to use."
"The solution makes the CI/CD pipelines easy to execute."
"The initial setup of GitLab is pretty simple, with no complications."
"The scalability is good."
"There is a good community around the product that makes troubleshooting possible."
"The most valuable feature of Spinnaker is the rollback."
"Some of the scripts that we encountered in GitLab were not fully functional and threw up errors."
"The solution could improve by providing more integration into the CI/CD pipeline, an autocomplete search tool, and more supporting documentation."
"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'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."
"The only thing our company is really waiting on in terms of features is the development of metrics."
"The documentation is confusing."
"We have only seen a couple of issues on Gitlab, which we use for building some of the applications."
"We would like to have easier tutorials. Their tutorials are too technical for a user to understand. They should be more detailed but less technical."
"Spinnaker's configuration setup is too complicated and should be made easy."
"Log-wise, we need to understand why something has failed so that we can understand and try to fix it the moment the issue is reported. The solution could use more robust monitoring."
GitLab is ranked 2nd in Release Automation with 70 reviews while Spinnaker is ranked 7th in Release Automation with 2 reviews. GitLab is rated 8.6, while Spinnaker is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Spinnaker writes "Good integrations, a helpful user community, and good reliability". GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, SonarQube, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline and Tekton, whereas Spinnaker is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, AWS CodeDeploy and UrbanCode Deploy. See our GitLab vs. Spinnaker report.
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