We performed a comparison between AWS CodeBuild 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."The solution provides good integrations."
"The integration with other AWS services has streamlined our workflow."
"It works seamlessly with AWS Elastic Container Registry (ECR)."
"The integration is a good feature."
"The integration is a good feature."
"Their CI/CD engine is very mature. It's very comprehensive and flexible, and compared to other projects, I believe that GitLab is number one right now from that perspective."
"It speeds up our development, it's faster, safer, and more convenient."
"It is a speedy platform compared to the others I have used. I have also enjoyed using the platform as this solution offers a good user experience."
"The merging feature makes it easy later on for the deployment."
"I like that you can use GitLab as a double-sided solution for both DevOps and version management. It's a good product for working in these two areas, and the user interface makes it easy to understand."
"The initial setup of GitLab is pretty simple, with no complications."
"The solution has an established roadmap that lays out its plans for upgrades over the next two to three years."
"CI/CD is valuable for me."
"The deployment fails sometimes."
"While working on building images for multiple applications within a single script, I encountered an issue where looping functionality was not supported as expected."
"There is no persistent storage or preservation of workspace between the builds."
"They can further improve the integration of the Bitbucket for CodeBuild."
"There was a problem with the build environment when we were looking at developing iOS applications. iOS build require Mac machines and there are no Mac machines provided by GitLab in their cloud. So to build for mobile iOS application, we needed to use our own Mac machine within our own infrastructure. If GitLab were to provide a feature such that an iOS application could also be built through GitLab directly, that would be great."
"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."
"I rate the support from GitLab a four out of five."
"The solution could be faster."
"The integration and storage capabilities could be better."
"It would be really good if they integrated more features in application security."
"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."
"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."
AWS CodeBuild is ranked 9th in Build Automation with 4 reviews while GitLab is ranked 1st in Build Automation with 70 reviews. AWS CodeBuild is rated 8.8, while GitLab is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of AWS CodeBuild writes "Provides good integrations, is flexible, and has a comparable price". On the other hand, the top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". AWS CodeBuild is most compared with Jenkins, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Tekton and AWS CodePipeline, whereas GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Bamboo, SonarQube, AWS CodePipeline and Tekton. See our AWS CodeBuild vs. GitLab report.
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