Why developers like GitLab Pages

What is GitLab Pages?

Host your static websites on GitLab.com for free, or on your own GitLab Enterprise Edition instance. Use any static website generator: Jekyll, Middleman, Hexo, Hugo, Pelican, and more

GitLab Pages is a tool in the Static Web Hosting category of a tech stack.

Who uses GitLab Pages?

Companies

47 companies reportedly use GitLab Pages in their tech stacks, including GitLab, Braincube, and Ocado Technology.

GitLab

Braincube

Ocado Technology

JustChunks

Backend

Yintrust

TurkDevOps

Machinations

framework

Developers

195 developers on StackShare have stated that they use GitLab Pages.

My Stack

Luiz Carlos Faria

My Stack

Development Stack

My Stack

GitLab Pages Integrations

GitLab, Jekyll, Hugo, Hexo, and Middleman are some of the popular tools that integrate with GitLab Pages. Here's a list of all 11 tools that integrate with GitLab Pages.

GitLab

Jekyll

Hugo

Hexo

Middleman

Brunch

Pelican

Octopress

Nikola

Pros of GitLab Pages

Free

Integrated build and release pipeline

Allows any custom build scripts and plugins

Decisions about GitLab Pages

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose GitLab Pages in their tech stack.

Howie Zhao

Full Stack Engineer at yintrust · Aug 14, 2020 | 1 upvote · 10.1K views

Chose

GitLab Pages

Yintrust

We use GitLab Pages to write internal documents.

Joshua Dean Küpper

CEO at Scrayos UG (haftungsbeschränkt) · Mar 14, 2019 | 20 upvotes · 694.8K views

Shared insights

Scrayos UG (haftungsbeschränkt)

We use GitLab CI because of the great native integration as a part of the GitLab framework and the linting-capabilities it offers. The visualization of complex pipelines and the embedding within the project overview made Gitlab CI even more convenient. We use it for all projects, all deployments and as a part of GitLab Pages.

While we initially used the Shell-executor, we quickly switched to the Docker-executor and use it exclusively now.

We formerly used Jenkins but preferred to handle everything within GitLab . Aside from the unification of our infrastructure another motivation was the "configuration-in-file"-approach, that Gitlab CI offered, while Jenkins support of this concept was very limited and users had to resort to using the webinterface. Since the file is included within the repository, it is also version controlled, which was a huge plus for us.

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GitLab Pages Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to GitLab Pages?

GitHub Pages

Public webpages hosted directly from your GitHub repository. Just edit, push, and your changes are live.

GitHub

GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.

GitLab

GitLab offers git repository management, code reviews, issue tracking, activity feeds and wikis. Enterprises install GitLab on-premise and connect it with LDAP and Active Directory servers for secure authentication and authorization. A single GitLab server can handle more than 25,000 users but it is also possible to create a high availability setup with multiple active servers.

Netlify

Netlify is smart enough to process your site and make sure all assets gets optimized and served with perfect caching-headers from a cookie-less domain. We make sure your HTML is served straight from our CDN edge nodes without any round-trip to our backend servers and are the only ones to give you instant cache invalidation when you push a new deploy. Netlify is also the only static hosting service with integrated continuous deployment.

Confluence

Capture the knowledge that's too often lost in email inboxes and shared network drives in Confluence instead – where it's easy to find, use, and update.

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