GitLab vs Spinnaker comparison

"The most valuable features of GitLab are the review, patch repo, and plans are in YAML."

"The dashboard and interface make it easy to use."

"I have found the most valuable features of GitLab are the GitClone, GitPush, GitPull, GitMatch, GitMit, GitCommit, and GitStatus."

"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."

"As a developer, this solution is useful as a repository holder because most of the POC projects that we have are on GitLab."

"I have found the most valuable feature is security control. I also like the branching and cloning software."

"The most valuable feature of GitLab is the automatic merging of code."

"GitLab's best features are continuous integration and fast deployment."

"The tool's most valuable feature is its intuitive interface for converting existing Kubernetes specs into working pipelines. It's easy for anyone to deploy anything on any environment when they need to test or deploy for a specific merchant or use case. Instead of going into the specs and changing different variables, they can do it through the UI, which is very useful."

"Spinnaker is used for automating a variety of deployment tasks, infrastructure, provisioning tasks, and all kinds of things."

"The most valuable feature of Spinnaker is the rollback."

"There is a good community around the product that makes troubleshooting possible."

"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."

"GitLab's Windows version is yet not available and having this would be an improvement."

"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 automation features specifically tailored for DigitalOcean would be beneficial."

"The initial setup was quite challenging because it takes some time to understand how to pull out or push the code."

"GitLab would be improved with the addition of templates for deployment on local PCs."

"The price of GitLab could improve, it is high."

"Merge conflicts and repository maintenance could improve. If there is someone new to the system they would not know if there is a conflict."

"The solution does not have many built-in functions or variables so scripting is required."

"Log-wise, we need to understand why something has failed so that we can understand and try to fix it the moment the issue is reported. The solution could use more robust monitoring."

"Regarding areas for improvement, one significant issue is the lack of maker-checker flows to ensure that newly created pipelines are accurate and tested. We currently use an in-house abstraction over Spinnaker to verify pipeline specs, environment variables, etc. It would be beneficial if Spinnaker could offer this functionality within their product."

"Every time it goes to run a pipeline, it just generates a lot of data, and its database is not exactly tuned out of the box, meaning it is not tuned for high scalability."

"Spinnaker's configuration setup is too complicated and should be made easy."

"As I work in a vast enterprise, I'm unsure about the licensing cost for GitLab. It's the management team that takes care of that."

"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."

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

"GitLab is comparatively expensive, but it provides value because it's feature-rich."

"In terms of the pricing for GitLab, on a scale of one to five, with one being expensive and five being cheap, I'm rating pricing for the solution a four. It could still be cheaper because right now, my company has a small team, and sometimes it's difficult to use a paid product for a small team. You'd hope the team will grow and scale, but currently, you're paying a high license fee for a small team. I'm referring to the GitLab license that has premium features and will give you all features. This can be a problem for management to approve the high price of the license for a team this small."

"Its price is fine. It is on the cheaper side and not expensive. You have to pay additionally for GitLab CI/CD minutes. Initially, we used the free version. When we ran out of GitLab minutes, we migrated to the paid version."

"We are currently using the open-source version."

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

"Spinnaker is an open-source product. The tool is completely free for users."

"The solution is open-source."

"Spinnaker is a free-to-use, open-source solution."