GitLab
Developer collaborationHost code, review changes and run CI/CD pipelines on your own server.
GitLab puts source code, code review, CI/CD and issue tracking in one application. The Community Edition is the MIT-licensed part of GitLab that you can run yourself at no cost. Many planning, compliance and security features belong to the paid Premium and Ultimate tiers, so this profile covers only what the free edition includes.
- Review code in merge requests and run CI/CD pipelines defined in a .gitlab-ci.yml file.
- Give every project an issue tracker, issue boards, a wiki and a static site on GitLab Pages.
- Keep container images and npm, Maven, PyPI or NuGet packages next to the code.
What people use it for
Move repositories off GitHub
Use the GitHub importer to bring over a repository with its branches, issues, pull requests, review comments, milestones, releases and wiki pages. Branch protection rules and collaborators are mapped to GitLab settings and roles.
Test and deploy every change
Add a .gitlab-ci.yml file that defines build and test stages, then register a runner on a machine you control. GitLab starts a pipeline on each commit or merge request, and pipelines can also run on a schedule or be started by hand.
Share internal packages and images
Push Docker images to a project's container registry and publish npm, Maven or PyPI packages to its package registry. Other projects and deployments then pull them from the same server that holds the code.