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."The product's most valuable features are security scan, dependency scan, and cost-effectiveness."
"It ensures user passwords or sensitive information are not accidentally exposed in code or reports."
"Dependency scanning is a valuable feature."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution as it can handle new applications along with the analysis part."
"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."
"The most valuable is the developer experience and the extensibility of the overall ecosystem."
"The most valuable features of GitLab are the review, patch repo, and plans are in YAML."
"GitLab is a solution for source code management, container registry, pipelines, testing, and deployment."
"This product is always evolving, and they listen to the customers."
"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."
"A user friendly solution."
"I like GitLab from the CI/CD perspective. It is much easier to set up CI/CD and then integrate with other tools."
"The code merging capability is something that we use very frequently."
"It scales well."
"There could be DST features included in the product."
"The report limitations are the main issue."
"There could be a centralized dashboard to view reports of all the projects on one platform."
"A more refined approach, categorizing and emphasizing specific vulnerabilities, would be beneficial."
"The customizations are a little bit difficult."
"The deployment part of the product is an area of concern that needs to be made easier from an improvement perspective."
"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."
"We would like to generate document pages from the sources."
"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 could consider introducing a code-scanning tool. Purchasing such tools from external markets can incur charges, which might not be favorable. Integrating these features into GitLab would streamline the pipeline and make it more convenient for users."
"We have only seen a couple of issues on Gitlab, which we use for building some of the applications."
"We'd like to see better integration with the Atlassian ecosystem."
"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."
"As a partner, sometimes it's difficult to get support. They have a really complicated procedure for their support."
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, Bamboo, SonarQube, AWS CodePipeline and Tekton. See our GitHub Advanced Security vs. GitLab report.
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