We performed a comparison between GitLab and Harness based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about GitLab, Jenkins, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in Build Automation."The most valuable features of GitLab are ease of use and highly intuitive UI and performance."
"Key features allow creation of well-presented Wiki that includes ideas, development, and domains."
"CI/CD is valuable for me."
"The solution's service delivery model is fantastic."
"It speeds up our development, it's faster, safer, and more convenient."
"GitLab's best features are maintenance, branch integration, and development infrastructure."
"It's a great toolbox where the CI/CD pipeline is the fundamental component, but there are so many other features that you can pull from, which makes it a very powerful tool. My current client is using AWS, and they can, of course, use AWS CodePipeline, but GitLab is much more mature than that, and it also gives you the freedom to decide to go to another platform or have a multi-cloud strategy and things like that. That freedom for me is also very valuable."
"The most valuable feature of GitLab is the ability to upload scripts and make changes when needed and then reupload them. Additionally, the solution is user-friendly."
"It's a highly customizable DevOps tool."
"GitLab doesn't have AWS integration. It would be better to have integration with other container management environments beyond Kubernetes. It has very good integration with Kubernetes, but it doesn't have good integration with, for example, AWS, ETS, etc."
"The initial setup was quite challenging because it takes some time to understand how to pull out or push the code."
"We do face issues in our company when we run out of disk space."
"As GitLab is not perfect, what needs improvement in the solution is the Wiki feature of the groups or the repertories because currently, it's not searchable by default. You'll need an indexing service such as Elasticsearch to make it searchable, and that requires too much work, so for me, it's the main feature that should be improved in GitLab. In the next version of the solution, from the top of my head, the documentation could be improved. Besides the Wiki, it would be good if there's documentation that would be automatically generated based on the code repository. In other words, there should be some tutorials from GitLab for developers in the next release."
"The only thing our company is really waiting on in terms of features is the development of metrics."
"We'd like to see better integration with the Atlassian ecosystem."
"The tool should include a feature that helps to edit the code directly."
"When deploying the solution on cloud and the CI/CD pipeline, we have to define the steps and it becomes confusing."
"There's also room for improvement in debugging pipeline issues, which can sometimes become complex."
GitLab is ranked 1st in Build Automation with 70 reviews while Harness is ranked 8th in Build Automation with 1 review. GitLab is rated 8.6, while Harness is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Harness writes "Provides a good graphical interface, but the initial setup process needs improvement ". GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Bamboo, SonarQube, AWS CodePipeline and Tekton, whereas Harness is most compared with Tekton, Jenkins, Bamboo, TeamCity and AWS CodePipeline.
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