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CloudBees vs GitLab comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

CloudBees
Ranking in Build Automation
11th
Ranking in DevSecOps
9th
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
13
Ranking in other categories
Configuration Management (14th), Value Stream Management Software (3rd)
GitLab
Ranking in Build Automation
1st
Ranking in DevSecOps
3rd
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
74
Ranking in other categories
Application Security Tools (7th), Release Automation (2nd), Static Application Security Testing (SAST) (6th), Rapid Application Development Software (10th), Software Composition Analysis (SCA) (5th), Enterprise Agile Planning Tools (2nd), Fuzz Testing Tools (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2024, in the Build Automation category, the mindshare of CloudBees is 0.3%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of GitLab is 18.4%, down from 20.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Build Automation
 

Featured Reviews

Swati Priya - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 23, 2024
Offers more seamless, user-friendly experience and well-suited for managing your CI/CD processes
Everything works well with deployment, application management, running jobs, and pipelines, and RBAC is effective. However, one area of concern is tracking license usage. With a ProCloud license, for example, there's no centralized console to monitor how many licenses have been used. This lack of visibility can lead to untracked consumption and potentially overshooting license limits. Additionally, we use the UAM plugin, but it doesn’t provide details on when users were added. This lack of tracking features is disappointing, especially given our status as a premium CloudBees customer. Better tools for monitoring license usage and user activities would be beneficial. We've noticed occasional issues with folder permissions changing unexpectedly. Specifically, permissions sometimes shift from the CloudBees user to the root user. This can cause pipeline failures, as pipelines require the correct CloudBees user permissions to execute properly.
DC
Mar 19, 2024
Version control history is valuable for our development workflow
We create the pipeline and push it to GitLab to initiate the process. The cloud integration is straightforward When it comes to GitLab's CI/CD integration, it significantly supports our development process by accelerating deployments. With automated pipelines, we can focus more on development…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"CloudBees's user interface is very simple and user-friendly."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its flexibility."
"It’s a very good tool for auditing your project pipelines as well."
"The customer support is good. You get good representatives from CloudBees to help you and understand your requirements."
"CloudBees operates seamlessly. Deploying to a cluster is straightforward—just one click, and the job is done."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that its GUI is quite simple."
"The most valuable features are Java features, microservice communication, payment validation, Jenkins Sonar, management master to CloudBees, Blue Ocean, JobConfig, and support."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The most valuable features of Gitlab are integration with CIE and the ability to rapidly deploy solutions, projects, and applications. It is very easy to use, and there are no complaints."
"I like GitLab from the CI/CD perspective. It is much easier to set up CI/CD and then integrate with other tools."
"It is very useful for reviews. We are using branch merging operations and full reset operations. It is also very useful for merging our code and tracking another branch. The graph diagrams of Git are very useful. Its interface is straightforward and not too complex for us."
"Everything is easy to configure and easy to work with."
"GitLab's best features are continuous integration and fast deployment."
"GitLab is being used as a repository for our codebase and it is a one stop DevOps tool we use in our team."
"The dashboard and interface make it easy to use."
"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."
 

Cons

"One challenge I'd like to highlight is that with CloudBees CI growing bigger and bigger, there are limitations in terms of managing old plugins and services and upgrading them with time."
"I think a preview of the errors would be good just at the point where the error occurs."
"To improve efficiency, they should focus on smoother label deployment."
"I noticed that CloudBees runs too slowly because some applications run more than 50 pipelines."
"The user interface of CloudBees is good but could be even more intuitive. Improving the user-friendliness of the interface and having simpler setup configurations would greatly benefit new users."
"The setup is somewhat complicated. You need a cloud architect and engineer to set it up properly. The initial setup will take time, so you need a good engineer and architect to handle it."
"We've noticed occasional issues with folder permissions changing unexpectedly. Specifically, permissions sometimes shift from the CloudBees user to the root user. This can cause pipeline failures, as pipelines require the correct CloudBees user permissions to execute properly."
"To use the tool, you need to be familiar with the tool itself and with how it will be incorporated into the culture."
"I would like configuration of a YML file to be done via UI rather than a code file."
"It has fewer options, and its UI is not so user-friendly."
"There is room for improvement in GitLab Agents."
"The initial setup was quite challenging because it takes some time to understand how to pull out or push the code."
"GitLab's Windows version is yet not available and having this would be an improvement."
"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."
"It would be better if there weren't any outages. There are occasions where we usually see a lot of outages using GitLab. It happens at least once a week or something like that. Whatever pipelines you're running, to check the logs, you need to have a different set of tools like Argus or something like that. If you have pipelines running on GitLab, you need a separate service deployed to view the logs, which is kind of a pain. If the logs can be used conveniently on GitLab, that would be definitely helpful. I'm not talking about the CI/CD pipelines but the back-end services and microservices deployed over GitLab. To view the logs for those microservices, you need to have separate log viewers, which is kind of a pain."
"Perhaps the integration could be better."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"I think that we pay approximately $100 USD per month."
"I'm not aware of the licensing costs because those were covered by the customer."
"The price is okay."
"It is very expensive. We can't bear it now, and we have to find another solution. We have a yearly subscription in which we can increase the number of licenses, but we have to pay at the end of the year."
"GitLab is a free solution to use."
"The open-source version is very good and the commercial version is reasonably priced."
"This is an open-source solution."
"There are different licensing options available, including a free limited-user license."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
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Educational Organization
27%
Computer Software Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

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Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with CloudBees?
Everything works well with deployment, application management, running jobs, and pipelines, and RBAC is effective. However, one area of concern is tracking license usage. With a ProCloud license, f...
What is your primary use case for CloudBees?
We have five or six client controllers, referred to as ClientMasters, each serving a different region. For instance, we set up a client controller for the Europe region, where we manage multiple sc...
What advice do you have for others considering CloudBees?
I would advise you to understand your environment and familiarize yourself with CloudBees and its terminology. It is crucial to gain a clear understanding of each term and concept on the control pa...
What do you like most about GitLab?
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.
What needs improvement with GitLab?
In the next release, I would like to see GitLab expand its integration capabilities to include platforms like DigitalOcean, which developers widely use for cloud infrastructure. Enhancing CI/CD aut...
 

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