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Bitrise vs GitLab: What are the differences?

Developers describe Bitrise as "Automate your mobile app development from building through testing to deployment". In short Bitrise is a Continous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) Platform as a Service (PaaS) with a main focus on mobile app development (iOS, Android). You can automate the testing and deployment of your apps with just a few clicks. When you trigger a build a Virtual Machine is assigned to host your build and your defined Workflow (series of Steps scripts) will be executed, step by step. On the other hand, GitLab is detailed as "Open source self-hosted Git management software". 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.

Bitrise can be classified as a tool in the "Mobile Continuous Integration" category, while GitLab is grouped under "Code Collaboration & Version Control".

Some of the features offered by Bitrise are:

  • Continuous Delivery
  • Hosted Environment
  • Customizable Workflows

On the other hand, GitLab provides the following key features:

  • Manage git repositories with fine grained access controls that keep your code secure
  • Perform code reviews and enhance collaboration with merge requests
  • Each project can also have an issue tracker and a wiki

"Easy setup" is the top reason why over 10 developers like Bitrise, while over 451 developers mention "Self hosted" as the leading cause for choosing GitLab.

GitLab is an open source tool with 20.1K GitHub stars and 5.33K GitHub forks. Here's a link to GitLab's open source repository on GitHub.

Ticketmaster, Citrix, and Electronic Arts are some of the popular companies that use GitLab, whereas Bitrise is used by ZeeMee, Bitrise, and Multunus. GitLab has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1219 company stacks & 1431 developers stacks; compared to Bitrise, which is listed in 30 company stacks and 14 developer stacks.

Decisions about Bitrise 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

What else do you review before asking for code review?

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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
Senior Software Engineer at Pulley · | 8 upvotes · 580.8K views

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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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 Bitrise
Pros of GitLab
  • 18
    Easy setup
  • 9
    Bitbucket Integration
  • 8
    Advanced Workflow configuration
  • 7
    Slack integration
  • 7
    Github Integration
  • 5
    Great tools for iOS and Android development
  • 5
    Friendly & Easy to use
  • 4
    Great support
  • 3
    Pricing by concurrency, not team size
  • 2
    Open Source
  • 2
    Discounts for contributors
  • 2
    Fast Updates
  • 1
    Developer centric
  • 1
    Fast Builds
  • 505
    Self hosted
  • 428
    Free
  • 338
    Has community edition
  • 241
    Easy setup
  • 239
    Familiar interface
  • 136
    Includes many features, including ci
  • 112
    Nice UI
  • 83
    Good integration with gitlabci
  • 56
    Simple setup
  • 34
    Has an official mobile app
  • 33
    Free private repository
  • 30
    Continuous Integration
  • 21
    Open source, great ui (like github)
  • 17
    Slack Integration
  • 13
    Full CI flow
  • 11
    Free and unlimited private git repos
  • 9
    User, group, and project access management is simple
  • 8
    Intuitive UI
  • 8
    All in one (Git, CI, Agile..)
  • 7
    Built-in CI
  • 5
    Full DevOps suite with Git
  • 5
    Both public and private Repositories
  • 5
    CI
  • 4
    Build/pipeline definition alongside code
  • 4
    Integrated Docker Registry
  • 4
    Mattermost Chat client
  • 4
    Issue system
  • 4
    It's powerful source code management tool
  • 4
    So easy to use
  • 4
    Excellent
  • 3
    Dockerized
  • 3
    Low maintenance cost due omnibus-deployment
  • 3
    On-premises
  • 3
    Security and Stable
  • 3
    I like the its runners and executors feature
  • 3
    It's fully integrated
  • 3
    Unlimited free repos & collaborators
  • 3
    Great for team collaboration
  • 3
    Free private repos
  • 3
    Because is the best remote host for git repositories
  • 2
    One-click install through DigitalOcean
  • 2
    Review Apps feature
  • 2
    Built-in Docker Registry
  • 2
    Powerful software planning and maintaining tools
  • 2
    Multilingual interface
  • 2
    Groups of groups
  • 2
    Beautiful
  • 2
    Wounderful
  • 2
    Opensource
  • 2
    Not Microsoft Owned
  • 2
    Published IP list for whitelisting (gl-infra#434)
  • 2
    Kubernetes Integration
  • 2
    Many private repo
  • 2
    HipChat intergration
  • 2
    The dashboard with deployed environments
  • 2
    Native CI
  • 2
    It includes everything I need, all packaged with docker
  • 2
    Kubernetes integration with GitLab CI
  • 2
    Powerful Continuous Integration System
  • 1
    Supports Radius/Ldap & Browser Code Edits

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Cons of Bitrise
Cons of GitLab
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    • 28
      Slow ui performance
    • 8
      Introduce breaking bugs every release
    • 6
      Insecure (no published IP list for whitelisting)
    • 2
      Built-in Docker Registry
    • 1
      Review Apps feature

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    What is Bitrise?

    It is a Continous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) Platform as a Service (PaaS) with a main focus on mobile app development (iOS, Android). You can automate the testing and deployment of your apps with just a few clicks. When you trigger a build a Virtual Machine is assigned to host your build and your defined Workflow (series of Steps scripts) will be executed, step by step.

    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 Bitrise and GitLab?
    Jenkins
    In a nutshell Jenkins CI is the leading open-source continuous integration server. Built with Java, it provides over 300 plugins to support building and testing virtually any project.
    CircleCI
    Continuous integration and delivery platform helps software teams rapidly release code with confidence by automating the build, test, and deploy process. Offers a modern software development platform that lets teams ramp.
    Buddybuild
    Buddybuild ties together continuous integration, continuous delivery and an iterative feedback solution into a single, seamless platform.
    fastlane
    fastlane lets you define and run your deployment pipelines for different environments. It helps you unify your app’s release process and automate the whole process. fastlane connects all fastlane tools and third party tools, like CocoaPods.
    Nevercode
    It is a cloud-based continuous integration & delivery platform for iOS, Android, Cordova, Ionic and React Native. It helps you to release defect-free mobile apps and to save countless hours of manual work every week.
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