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Atlassian Stash vs GitLab: What are the differences?

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Atlassian Stash and GitLab are both popular tools used for version control and collaboration in software development projects. While they share similarities in terms of functionality, there are several key differences between the two platforms. This article will highlight the main distinctions between Atlassian Stash and GitLab.

  1. Deployment and Hosting: Atlassian Stash is primarily designed to be deployed on-premises, allowing organizations to have complete control over their repositories and infrastructure. On the other hand, GitLab offers both on-premises deployment as well as a cloud-hosted version, providing users with the flexibility to choose the hosting option that best suits their needs.

  2. Scalability and Team Size: GitLab is known for its scalability and ability to handle large enterprise projects with thousands of users. It provides robust support for high availability, clustering, and load balancing, making it ideal for organizations with a large number of developers. In contrast, while Atlassian Stash can handle smaller team sizes effectively, it may not be as suitable for larger projects with extensive collaboration requirements.

  3. Built-in CI/CD: GitLab stands out with its comprehensive built-in continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) capabilities. It offers a complete DevOps platform, allowing developers to automate the entire software development lifecycle from code testing to deployment. Atlassian Stash, however, lacks the integrated CI/CD features that GitLab provides, requiring users to integrate with external CI/CD tools for similar functionality.

  4. Third-party Integration Ecosystem: GitLab has a rich ecosystem of integrations and extensions that seamlessly integrate with other popular tools and services. It offers a wide range of plugins, allowing users to connect GitLab with project management tools, issue trackers, and other developer tools. While Atlassian Stash does offer integrations, the breadth and depth of the integration ecosystem in GitLab are often more extensive.

  5. Container Registry: GitLab includes a built-in container registry that allows users to store and manage Docker images within their repositories. This feature simplifies the process of packaging and deploying applications in containers and streamlines the overall development workflow. Atlassian Stash, unfortunately, does not provide a built-in container registry, necessitating the use of additional tools for container management.

  6. Pricing Model: When it comes to pricing, GitLab offers a free, open-source version with many essential features included. It also provides several paid tiers with additional features and support options for enterprise customers. Atlassian Stash, on the other hand, follows a traditional licensing model, where users need to purchase licenses based on the number of users. This can make GitLab a more cost-effective option, particularly for small to medium-sized organizations.

In summary, Atlassian Stash and GitLab have distinct differences. While Atlassian Stash provides more control over infrastructure and licensing options, GitLab offers superior scalability, integrated CI/CD, a broader third-party integration ecosystem, and a built-in container registry. These differences make GitLab a compelling choice for organizations that prioritize scalability, automation, and extensive collaboration capabilities.

Decisions about Atlassian Stash and GitLab
Weverton Timoteo

Do you review your Pull/Merge Request before assigning Reviewers?

If you work in a team opening a Pull Request (or Merge Request) looks appropriate. However, have you ever thought about opening a Pull/Merge Request when working by yourself? Here's a checklist of things you can review in your own:

  • Pick the correct target branch
  • Make Drafts explicit
  • Name things properly
  • Ask help for tools
  • Remove the noise
  • Fetch necessary data
  • Understand Mergeability
  • Pass the message
  • Add screenshots
  • Be found in the future
  • Comment inline in your changes

Read the blog post for more detailed explanation for each item :D

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Weverton Timoteo

Using an inclusive language is crucial for fostering a diverse culture. Git has changed the naming conventions to be more language-inclusive, and so you should change. Our development tools, like GitHub and GitLab, already supports the change.

SourceLevel deals very nicely with repositories that changed the master branch to a more appropriate word. Besides, you can use the grep linter the look for exclusive terms contained in the source code.

As the inclusive language gap may happen in other aspects of our lives, have you already thought about them?

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Weverton Timoteo

One of the magic tricks git performs is the ability to rewrite log history. You can do it in many ways, but git rebase -i is the one I most use. With this command, It’s possible to switch commits order, remove a commit, squash two or more commits, or edit, for instance.

It’s particularly useful to run it before opening a pull request. It allows developers to “clean up” the mess and organize commits before submitting to review. If you follow the practice 3 and 4, then the list of commits should look very similar to a task list. It should reveal the rationale you had, telling the story of how you end up with that final code.

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Kamaleshwar BN
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Out of most of the VCS solutions out there, we found Gitlab was the most feature complete with a free community edition. Their DevSecops offering is also a very robust solution. Gitlab CI/CD was quite easy to setup and the direct integration with your VCS + CI/CD is also a bonus. Out of the box integration with major cloud providers, alerting through instant messages etc. are all extremely convenient. We push our CI/CD updates to MS Teams.

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Gitlab as A LOT of features that GitHub and Azure DevOps are missing. Even if both GH and Azure are backed by Microsoft, GitLab being open source has a faster upgrade rate and the hosted by gitlab.com solution seems more appealing than anything else! Quick win: the UI is way better and the Pipeline is way easier to setup on GitLab!

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Nazar Atamaniuk
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At DeployPlace we use self-hosted GitLab, we have chosen GitLab as most of us are familiar with it. We are happy with all features GitLab provides, I can’t imagine our life without integrated GitLab CI. Another important feature for us is integrated code review tool, we use it every day, we use merge requests, code reviews, branching. To be honest, most of us have GitHub accounts as well, we like to contribute in open source, and we want to be a part of the tech community, but lack of solutions from GitHub in the area of CI doesn’t let us chose it for our projects.

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Pros of Atlassian Stash
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      Self hosted
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      Free
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      Has community edition
    • 242
      Easy setup
    • 240
      Familiar interface
    • 137
      Includes many features, including ci
    • 113
      Nice UI
    • 84
      Good integration with gitlabci
    • 57
      Simple setup
    • 35
      Has an official mobile app
    • 34
      Free private repository
    • 31
      Continuous Integration
    • 23
      Open source, great ui (like github)
    • 18
      Slack Integration
    • 15
      Full CI flow
    • 11
      Free and unlimited private git repos
    • 10
      All in one (Git, CI, Agile..)
    • 10
      User, group, and project access management is simple
    • 8
      Intuitive UI
    • 8
      Built-in CI
    • 6
      Full DevOps suite with Git
    • 6
      Both public and private Repositories
    • 5
      Integrated Docker Registry
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      So easy to use
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      CI
    • 5
      Build/pipeline definition alongside code
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      It's powerful source code management tool
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      Dockerized
    • 4
      It's fully integrated
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      On-premises
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      Security and Stable
    • 4
      Unlimited free repos & collaborators
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      Not Microsoft Owned
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      Excellent
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      Issue system
    • 4
      Mattermost Chat client
    • 3
      Great for team collaboration
    • 3
      Free private repos
    • 3
      Because is the best remote host for git repositories
    • 3
      Built-in Docker Registry
    • 3
      Opensource
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      Low maintenance cost due omnibus-deployment
    • 3
      I like the its runners and executors feature
    • 2
      Beautiful
    • 2
      Groups of groups
    • 2
      Multilingual interface
    • 2
      Powerful software planning and maintaining tools
    • 2
      Review Apps feature
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      Kubernetes integration with GitLab CI
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      One-click install through DigitalOcean
    • 2
      Powerful Continuous Integration System
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      It includes everything I need, all packaged with docker
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      The dashboard with deployed environments
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      HipChat intergration
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      Many private repo
    • 2
      Kubernetes Integration
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      Published IP list for whitelisting (gl-infra#434)
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      Wounderful
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      Native CI
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      Supports Radius/Ldap & Browser Code Edits

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        Slow ui performance
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        Introduce breaking bugs every release
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        Insecure (no published IP list for whitelisting)
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        Built-in Docker Registry
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        Review Apps feature

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      What is Atlassian Stash?

      It is a centralized solution to manage Git repositories behind the firewall. Streamlined for small agile teams, powerful enough for large organizations.

      What is 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.

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      What are some alternatives to Atlassian Stash and GitLab?
      Bitbucket
      Bitbucket gives teams one place to plan projects, collaborate on code, test and deploy, all with free private Git repositories. Teams choose Bitbucket because it has a superior Jira integration, built-in CI/CD, & is free for up to 5 users.
      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.
      GitHub Enterprise
      GitHub Enterprise lets developers use the tools they love across the development process with support for popular IDEs, continuous integration tools, and hundreds of third party apps and services.
      SourceTree
      Use the full capability of Git and Mercurial in the SourceTree desktop app. Manage all your repositories, hosted or local, through SourceTree's simple interface.
      Git
      Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
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