Gitlab introduction

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Description

GitLab is a web-based Git-repository manager with wiki and issue-tracking features, using an open-source license, developed by GitLab Inc.

The software was written by Dmitriy Zaporozhets. As of December 2016, the company has 150 team members and more than 1400 open-source contributors.

Wikipedia definition

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GitLab is a web-based DevOps lifecycle tool that provides a Git-repository manager providing wiki, issue-tracking and CI/CD pipeline features, using an open-source license, developed by GitLab Inc.

The software was created by Dmitriy Zaporozhets and Valery Sizov and is used by several large tech companies including IBM, Sony, Jülich Research Center, NASA, Alibaba, Invincea, O’Reilly Media, Leibniz-Rechenzentrum (LRZ), CERN,[9][10][11] European XFEL, GNOME Foundation, Boeing, Autodata, and SpaceX.

The code was originally written in Ruby[13], with some parts later rewritten in Go, initially as a source code management solution to collaborate with his team on software development.

It later evolved to an integrated solution covering the software development life cycle, and then to the whole DevOps life cycle.

The current technology stack includes Go, Ruby on Rails and Vue.js.

gitlab CE definition

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GitLab Community Edition (CE) is an open source end-to-end software development platform with built-in version control, issue tracking, code review, CI/CD, and more. Self-host GitLab CE on your own servers, in a container, or on a cloud provider.