We performed a comparison between GitLab and Octopus Deploy based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Release Automation solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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 solution's service delivery model is fantastic."
"I have found the most valuable feature is security control. I also like the branching and cloning software."
"The best thing is that as the developers work on separate tasks, all of the code goes there and the other team members don't have to wait on each other to finish."
"We like that we can have an all-encompassing product and don't have to implement different solutions."
"The SaaS setup is impressive, and it has DAST solutioning."
"I like that it's easy to deploy our services over GitLab. The customer support is also good with a really active community. You have a lot of support that you can get online with your stack. That is probably one of the benefits of using GitLab. It's also really fast."
"The tool helps to integrate CI/CD pipeline deployments. It is very easy to learn. Its security model is good."
"The rollback feature has been most valuable. We can write scripts from scratch. Octopus maintains an independent package for every deployment."
"Deployment is valuable. It deploys well."
"The UI is very intuitive."
"There is a need to improve or adopt AI into the ecosystem like a co-pilot, which Microsoft has done with GitHub."
"The pricing model of GitLab is an issue for me."
"We'd like to see better integration with the Atlassian ecosystem."
"We do face issues in our company when we run out of disk space."
"I believe there's room for improvement in the advanced features, particularly in enhancing the pipeline functionalities."
"The documentation could be improved to help newcomers better understand things like creating new branches."
"GitLab could improve by having more plugins and better user-friendliness."
"We'd always like to see better pricing on the product."
"There could be scope for more integration with other platforms."
"You've got to jump through a few hoops to get some things configured, but if set up, you can do so many different things in it. So, there is complexity."
"This solution could be improved by making it easier to divide variables in YAML file or JSON files."
GitLab is ranked 2nd in Release Automation with 70 reviews while Octopus Deploy is ranked 8th in Release Automation with 3 reviews. GitLab is rated 8.6, while Octopus Deploy is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Octopus Deploy writes "Easy to set up with intuitive UI and good reliability". GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, SonarQube, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline and Tekton, whereas Octopus Deploy is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, UrbanCode Deploy and AWS CodeDeploy. See our GitLab vs. Octopus Deploy report.
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