GitLab Inc.

Overview

Canadian-American company that provides a web-based Git repository manager and DevOps platform with CI/CD, issue tracking, and more.

Key Facts

  • Founded: 2011-10-01

  • Headquarters: San Francisco, California, USA

  • Status: Public (NASDAQ: GTLB)

  • CEO: Sid Sijbrandij

  • Founded by Dmitriy Zaporozhets and Sytse Sijbrandij

  • GitLab.com is the largest Git hosting platform (after GitHub)

  • All-in-one DevOps platform: Git, CI/CD, container registry, monitoring

  • Open-core model: core platform is open-source (MIT License)

  • Major competitor to GitHub (Microsoft) and Bitbucket (Atlassian)

  • GitLab Runner is the CI/CD execution engine

Products Mentioned in Wiki

github | GitHub (Microsoft) is GitLab’s primary competitor in Git hosting Hashicorp