This time I have chosen to summarize a lecture from the recent DevOps Enterprise Summit in London. The conference was organized by Gene Kim, the author of a well-known book, The Phoenix Project. Lecture recordings were published a few days ago. I have selected this specific lecture for a number of reasons: It’s an interesting […]

GNOME, one of the most recognized, respected projects in the open source world, has moved to GitLab to manage their more than 400 software projects and nearly 900 (!) contributors.  GNOME software is used by millions of people worldwide, and is one of the largest and oldest free software projects. It’s best known for […]

Spotinst now offers a new service that enables you to integrate their Elastigroup to GitLab CI/CD. That means you can enjoy 3 benefits: Save money on Spot instances you install on AWS (Amazon Web Services) EC2. You can save up to 80% by using Spotinst (read below what Spot instances are) High availability that Spotinst […]

GitLab, a popular solution for smart software development on top of Git, recently announced a price increase for on-premise (self-hosted) editions: GitLab EES is changing in price from $39 per person per year to $48 and will now be called: “GitLab Starter” GitLab EEP is changing in price from $199 per person per year to […]

GitLab has acquired Gemnasium, a service that scans for security vulnerabilities in open source libraries, and soon it will be part of the GitLab product. This move helps GitLab users enjoy static code analysis; dynamic security testing; security container scanning and more. The tool can now scan Ruby, Python and JavaScript code languages, and very […]

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A great technical and short video we found online! We got the approval of the guy who made it (Gonzalo Sanchez) and added English Captions. Enjoy! If you want us to provide similar videos for Eclipse and IntelliJ, just let us know by contacting us: gitlab@almtoolbox.com   ALMtoolbox company is a GitLab authorised reseller. We […]

Last update: 10/20/2018 GitLab users often ask us which GitLab version to select. No wonder: today there are essentially 12 (!) options (cloud, on-premise etc.), and the choice can be quite confusing. The purpose of this article is to help you to choose the right version of GitLab. So how do you choose? To make […]

During a recent GitLab live event, GitLab made several interesting  announcements: They presented their vision of “Complete DevOps”, and demonstrated capabilities that will soon be incorporated into their product. They announced that they had raised $20 million in new venture capital funding led by Google Ventures (GV). So far, the total amount of funding raised […]

Last week we hosted a GitLab event for R&D and DevOps managers. A satisfied GitLab user, Matan Keidar of Thomson Reuters, presented his work at the company, including GitLab, Jenkins and Slack. After receiving good feedback on this story, we decided to publish it here on the blog (text summary and a video recording). The […]