Digital.ai Release vs GitLab comparison

"The solution can apply one template across multiple applications."

"The most valuable feature of Digital.ai Release is its ability to communicate with various deployment systems, such as XLD and batch deployments, as well as integrate with tools, such as Flyway and Bamboo. We use Bamboo as our build orchestrator, and Digital.ai Release also integrates with Jira, another Atlassian solution. These capabilities make it a powerful tool for managing workflow, test automation, and other processes."

"The time is also reduced because the manual work has tremendously decreased. We just have to click one button, and it will create everything for us."

"The orchestration, building the release, and then just executing it and managing that pipeline — the orchestration capabilities are great for that."

"For us, Gitlab's most valuable feature is the integration with Cypress. We're using Cypress as an automation tool, so we're using GitLab as a tool for running in parallel."

"GitLab is kind of an image of GitHub, so it gives us the flexibility to monitor our changes in the repos."

"GitLab has better support, and its features are superior compared to Jenkins."

"A user friendly solution."

"GitLab's source control is excellent."

"We're only using the basic features of GitLab and haven't used any advanced features. The solution works fine, so that's what we like about GitLab. We're party using GitHub and GitLab. We have a GitHub server, while we use GitLab locally or only within our team, and it works okay. We don't have any significant problems with the solution. We also found the straightforward setup, stability, and scalability of GitLab valuable."

"Continuous integration with deployment is very powerful, which is a significant reason for migrating from TFS to GitLab."

"GitLab's best features are maintenance, branch integration, and development infrastructure."

"The solution is a little bit expensive."

"The backfill could be improved, we could automate that. Right now it's subjective — it's up to the lead developer's memory to remember to backfill."

"Digital.ai Release could improve by having a better plugin that works with Guardian that we use for mainframe migrations. If there could be an interface or plugin for Guardian that would be beneficial."

"Currently, we put artifact details manually. What we could improve, in our case, is the deployment instruction base. Developers input all the information, including which artifact and where it needs to be deployed. What Digital.ai could do is automatically go to the deployment instruction page, take those artifact details, and implement them."

"I would like to have some features to support peer review."

"There are missing search features, particularly when searching repositories or applying filters. Additionally, I have encountered issues with the deployment of CI/CD pipelines, especially dealing with variable environments."

"You need to have a good knowledge of the product in order to use it."

"It's more related to the supporting layer of features, such as issue management and issue tracking. We tend to always use, for example, Jira next to it. That doesn't mean that GitLab should build something similar to Jira because that will always have its place, but they could grow a bit in those kinds of supporting features. I see some, for example, covering ITSM on a DevOps team level, and that's one of the things that I and my current client would find really helpful. It's understandably not going to be their main focus and their core, and whenever you are with a company that needs a bit more advanced features on that specific topic, you're probably still going to integrate with another tool like Jira Service Management, for example. However, some basic features on things like that could be really helpful."

"GitLab can improve by integrating with more tools, such as servers with Docker."

"It could have more security integrations and the ability to check the vulnerability of the code. I don't think it is a responsibility of Gitlab, but it would be nice to have more options to integrate with."

"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."

"GitLab could improve by having more plugins and better user-friendliness."

"Overall, the price is just too high; especially considering we're in the middle of a pandemic."

"The solution's license includes all features."

"GitLab is cheap."

"Regarding pricing, I would rate GitLab as moderately priced, maybe around a seven or eight out of ten. It could be more flexible for clients but generally offers good value."

"The solution's standard license is paid annually. They have changed the pricing model and it used to be better. There is a free version available."

"The initial setup cost is excellent and you can add the premium features later."

"GitLab's pricing is good compared to others on the market."

"This product is not very expensive but the price can be better."

"This is an open-source solution."

"In total, I believe we have more than 300 licenses spread over about 100 users, though I can't comment on the costs involved."