Archive for the ‘GitLab CI’ Category

See how new features are distributed among stages and features GitLab 13.9 was released yesterday with dozens of new features. As we initially published a month ago, we released an updated diagram of all features in GitLab separated by stages (Y axis) and editions (Free / Premium / Ultimate). We are often asked about the […]

I am often asked about the benefits of GitLab Premium. I recently analyzed all the features in GitLab to quantify and visualize the value of GitLab Premium (in addition to a long list of features that can be seen here and in addition to the detailed spreadsheet we send to our customers). It is said […]

New Year is a great time to summarize the past year! So let’s see what happened with GitLab product. This time I decided to focus on new features that were released in 2020 and to represent some interesting data and insights as charts. As providers of DevOps and ALM solutions (and partners of GitLab company […]

Make the Right Choice for you: GitLab Self-managed vs SaaS (gitlab.com) Last update: September 2022 I have been asked many times in recent weeks how to decide between gitlab.com (SaaS / public cloud) or self-managed (on your own private machine – sometimes it is also called “Self-hosted”). This is a popular question since there are […]

Many GitLab Starter customers ask us “What are we losing by not having access to GitLab Premium capabilities?” And there’s another version of the question, asked by those who use the free GitLab version or have not yet used GitLab – and they ask: “What are the differences between Starter and Premium?” or: “Why should […]

Yesterday GitLab announced that effective next month (October 2020) they will reduce the limit of free CI/CD minutes. As you know, GitLab Cloud (Gitlab.com) provides shared CI/CD runners, i.e. virtual machines on which you can run your build, test and other jobs. For example, we at ALM-Toolbox use them to run programs, which regularly create […]

GitLab version 13.0, released just days ago, now allows for high availability and redundancy of the Git storage component. This is important if GitLab is critical for your organization, and its downtime disables software development, CI/CD pipelines and delivery times. We are talking about Gitaly — one of GitLab’s most important components. Let’s talk about Gitaly […]

Starting from today, GitHub is offering unlimited free repositories – at no charge  – on their public cloud (github dot com). It’s good for those who have a side-project and they want to keep it private; those who want to keep files private and those who want to hide a project before they make it […]

To encourage downloads of the ‘Shield’ app that fights coronavirus, we have built a complementary Continuous Integration (CI) solution and code scanners to improve information security, code security and privacy of the app. We also invite the developers to use it freely and continuously in future. A few days ago, the Israeli Ministry of Health […]

I am happy to share a GitLab CI/CD video that is concise, technical and up-to-date. I have chosen this video as the best of several videos that I have recently watched. At your convenience, we have added subtitles, a summary of the video and the transcription of the video. You can watch the video and […]

We’re often asked about the integration of Kubernetes with GitLab and GitLab CI/CD and how it works if compared to Jenkins CI. So we thought to write a post about the maturity of integration with GitLab and provide a full list of how GitLab can help you get the most out of Kubernetes. So here […]

A few days ago I encountered an interesting interview in the Kubernetes Podcast website, talking about GitLab and Kubernetes. The hosts interviewed Marin Jankovski — an Engineering Manager at GitLab and the first employee of GitLab (!) . The interview concerns GitLab, Kubernetes, deployment, the SaaS offering of GitLab, transparency and an anecdote around the logo […]

Last update: 06/18/2020 We have just released a new white paper (15 pages) that describes ALL features provided in GitLab that support a modern Code Review process. There are 29 relevant features to code review, and we grouped them by editions (from free edition to enterprise editions) . We also added a few examples, a […]

In short: GitLab CI/CD lets you run your programs without the need to maintain your own computer, free of charge. A few months ago, we started distributing, to some of our customers, Excel sheets listing GitLab features. How did we create those sheets? We wrote a script, which used GitLab API to extract information from […]

This week we are hosting two GitLab employees (one of them is the first engineer at GitLab company) to discuss aspects of GitLab engineering, how GitLab was built and different aspects of using GitLab effectively. Webinar is free of charge. “Ask Me Anything” about GitLab Engineering (September 26th 2PM CET) We’ll be hosting: Marin Jankovski, Engineering Manager […]