{"id":5551,"date":"2018-10-30T12:06:11","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T12:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/?p=5551"},"modified":"2021-11-17T09:42:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T09:42:00","slug":"what-is-gitlab-and-how-its-useful-in-devops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/what-is-gitlab-and-how-its-useful-in-devops\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Gitlab and how its useful in DevOps?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5564\" src=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/What-is-Gitlab.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/What-is-Gitlab.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/What-is-Gitlab-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Intially, GitLab was introduced as a web-based Git-repository manager providing hositing solutions for git repo along with Wiki and Issues tracking.<\/p>\n<p>Later, GitLab become the single application for the entire of the DevOps lifecycle. From planning to monitoring GitLab covers every stage and additionally let&#8217;s you manage and secure across stages. Only GitLab enables Concurrent DevOps, unlocking organizations from the constraints of the toolchain.<\/p>\n<p>Gitab was introduced in 2011 and In July 2013, the product was split into two distinct versions:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>GitLab CE: Community Edition and<\/li>\n<li>EE: Enterprise Edition.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The code was originally written in Ruby &amp; Go but latest released was with technology stack includes Ruby on Rails and Vue.js.<\/p>\n<p>Enterprise Edition has wonderful Reporting &amp; Publishing features, Large lists of Extended authentication &amp; authorization integration, Rich Fine-grained workflow management, Additional server management options and CIs features.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please find the Comparison between GitLab Community Edition Vs Enterprise Edition?<\/strong><br>\nhttps:\/\/about.gitlab.com\/images\/feature_page\/gitlab-features.pdf<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gitlab supports all Stages of the DevOps lifecycle which includes&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Manage<\/li>\n<li>Plan<\/li>\n<li>Create<\/li>\n<li>Verify<\/li>\n<li>Package<\/li>\n<li>Release<\/li>\n<li>Configure<\/li>\n<li>Monitor<\/li>\n<li>Secure<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How to install GitLab Community Edition?<\/strong><br>\nhttps:\/\/about.gitlab.com\/install\/?version=ce<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to install GitLab Enterprise Edition?<\/strong><br>\nhttps:\/\/about.gitlab.com\/install\/<\/p>\n<p>Community Edition to Enterprise Edition upgrade is possible with some downtime.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"epyt-gallery\" data-currpage=\"1\" id=\"epyt_gallery_85174\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_97632\"  width=\"760\" height=\"427\"  data-origwidth=\"760\" data-origheight=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  data-epytgalleryid=\"epyt_gallery_85174\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/figure><div class=\"epyt-gallery-list\"><div>Sorry, there was a YouTube error.<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intially, GitLab was introduced as a web-based Git-repository manager providing hositing solutions for git repo along with Wiki and Issues tracking. 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