GitLab is an exceptional all-in-one DevOps platform that offers a wide array of tools for the entire software development lifecycle — from planning to CI/CD to monitoring. It stands out due to its integrated approach, allowing teams to manage repositories, pipelines, issues, merge requests, and security all within a single interface.It is easy to collaborate, review, and enforce quality gates with approval rules, code owners, and discussions.

There are a lot of great things about GitLab. First of all, it has a feature to create multiple levels of groups. Then the CI/CD pipelines are very easy to use. GitLab provides container registries, dependency proxy to pull container images, manages the Kubernetes environments etc. The implementation of GitLab self-hosted runners is also very easy, and GitLab has enough documentation for the setup. The integration of GitLab is pretty simple. I am using GitLab daily for day-to-day operations.

From an admin eyes , GitLab offers a comprehensive and effective all-in-one DevSecOps platform that minimizes the need to manage multiple toolchains. The centralized user and group management, especially with SAML SSO and SCIM integration for enterprise tiers with almost all IDPs, significantly simplifies access control and identity lifecycle management for Gitlab.