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Introducing
Tamir Gefen, ALMtoolbox

Tools We Support

-- Software Development Nowadays
-- Introducing GitLab
-- Recent Landmarks
-- Q & A
Agenda

Last Surveys Indicate…
▪ 98% of developers use open source tools at work
▪ 75% say at least half of their tools are open source
▪ 92% of developers prefer Git repositories for everyday work
▪ 91% of developers prefer to use the same dev tools for work
and personal projects
* According to surveys conducted by StackOverflow (3/17)

Software Development Nowadays
✓ Version control / repository management ( git! )
✓ Issue Tracker and Issue Board
✓ Code Review
✓ Continuous Integration
✓ Continuous Deployment
✓ Integration with IDEs (e.g. Eclipse, Visual Studio,
IntelliJ, Atom)
✓ API
✓ ChatOp tool
✓ Sharing knowledge

Software Development Trends
✓ Using open-source
✓ “Classic 4” for developers
✓ Code security
✓ Containers
✓ Cloud computing
✓ Microservices architecture
✓ Serverless

CI/CD
❖ More than 50% developers use continuous
integration more than 75% of the time
❖ 77% of developers say continuous integration
(CI) is very important to their everyday work
* According to surveys conducted by stackOverflow and GitLab

Thank You!Version Control Issue Tracking
Code Review CI

Containers

Introducing GitLab
From Idea to Production

GitLab Flow (cont.)

GitLab Provides…
✓ Version control and repository management based on Git
✓ Issue management, issue board, milestones and charts
✓ Code Review functionality (with Review Apps)
✓ Continuous Integration tool (GitLab CI) and pipelines
✓ Continuous Deployment – Auto Deploy tool and Deploy Board
✓ Built-in ChatOp and bot commands (Mattermost)
✓ Inner-sourcing
✓ Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
✓ Service Desk (ticketing system)
✓ Container Registry and Container Scanning
New
New

GitLab Provides… (cont.)
✓ Advanced in-code search (based on Elastic Search)
✓ Wiki (with version control)
✓ Browser Performance Testing
✓ Integration with IDEs (e.g. Eclipse, Visual Studio, IntelliJ)
✓ Integration with JIRA, Jenkins, Slack, Docker, Kubernetes,
Artifactory, TestRail and more
✓ Rich API
✓ Repository mirroring and high availability (HA)
✓ Development analytics
✓ Application monitoring

GitLab Provides… (cont.)
✓ On-premise or cloud-based installations
✓ Auto DevOps
✓ Web IDE
✓ Code security and Security Dashboard
✓ High-level Project Management
New
New
New

“Open Core”
Ultimate
Premium
Starter
Core

What Makes GitLab Different?
✓ One platform including all components you need
✓ Private repositories at no charge
✓ Open source – you can contribute your code
✓ Open Core
✓ Thousands of contributors ( > 2000)
✓ New major release at the 22nd of every month
✓ All employees ( > 330) are working from home
✓ Transparency
✓ One Israeli employee ☺ https://about.gitlab.com/mvp

Source: https://about.gitlab.com
GitLab is used by more than 100,000 organizations

Landmarks

2/3 of self-hosted market belongs to GitLab
Source: http://blog.bitrise.io/ 2017/01/27etats/-fo-ppa-tnempoleved-ni-2016fles#lmth.-detsoh

Source: https://www.buddybuild.com/blog/source-code-hosting#selfhosted
BuddyBuild found that 79% of mobile
developers who host code choose GitLab

BuddyBuild found that 79% of mobile
developers who host code choose GitLab
Source: http://almtoolbox.com/blog/gitlab-named-ci-leader-in-forrester-wave/

Heroku finds that GitLab CI it is clearly the biggest
mover in activity on StackOverflow among popular
cloud CI solutions
Source: https://blog.heroku.com/building-tools-for-developers-heroku-ci

Big Projects are Migrating into GitLab
GNOME’s analysis: https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/DevelopmentInfrastructure
GNOME’s story: https://youtu.be/EgpAXVuUMz0

Imported Repositories to GitLab
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIqJjq0c6LM

Winners of Google Cloud Partner
Award for “Innovative Developer
Solution”

GitLab is a "Strong
Performer" in The
Forrester New Wave:
Value Stream
Management Tools, Q3
2018.
“GitLab combines end-
to-end capability with the
power of open source.
GitLab offers a DevOps
tool for each step of the
software development
process.

Questions?
Questions?

Get your copy: http://almtoolbox.com/blog/gitlab-cheat-sheet/

tg@almtoolbox.com
Thank You!
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