gitlab VS gitlab-foss

Compare gitlab vs gitlab-foss and see what are their differences.

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gitlab

Posts with mentions or reviews of gitlab. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-22.

gitlab-foss

Posts with mentions or reviews of gitlab-foss. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-12.
  • GitHub Actions Are a Problem
    19 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Nov 2023
    * Gitlab EE (enterprise edition) is closed, but Gitlab CE (community edition) is open source (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/)

    * I didn't follow the Gitea drama too closely, but my understanding is that Forgejo was a fork born out of that situation

    * I've heard the SourceHut guy is a controversial figure, so avoiding it because of that isn't unreasonable. I will just say that "spite forks" tend not to last very long

  • Server-Side Request Forgery in Rails
    2 projects | dev.to | 19 Jul 2023
    Gitlab uses an UrlBlocker class to prevent malicious users from exploiting SSRF via the webhook URL. This class validates the URL and blocks everything which is a local network, but before the 11.5.1 version, they didn't think about an IPv6 format, which maps to IPv4: [0:0:0:0:0:ffff:127.0.0.1]. Replacing the part of 127.0.0.1 to any IP address also worked, and this vulnerability made it possible to send requests to the internal network of a GitLab instance. You can read the issue report here: (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/-/issues/53242 )[https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/-/issues/53242]
  • Automating deployment to kubernetes
    2 projects | /r/devops | 12 Jul 2023
    I recommend Auto DevOps and hooking your project up to the Kubernetes cluster. Auto DevOps is a standard CI/CD template that GitLab uses by default when .gitlab-ci.yml is not present. It can automatically package up certain types of applications, including those with a Dockerfile in the root of the repo. If the project is hooked up to a Kubernetes cluster and all the right variables are present, it builds that docker image and then fills in a Helm chart template containing that image and deploys it to the cluster.
  • Beautifying our UI: Giving Gitlab build features a fresh look
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Jul 2023
    Thanks. This was also requested for the UI 7 years ago

    https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/-/issues/12776

    and then closed with the claim that this was implemented, when in fact, it was not.

  • How we cut down our CI build times by 50%
    2 projects | dev.to | 21 Apr 2023
    Similar to fsync, these are designed to ensure data integrity, but in a test setup, they don't matter. You can read more about these in the Postgres doc on non-durability. and explore some benchmarks from Gitlab here. Interestingly, CircleCI's old Postgres images had these features disabled by default, but the newer ones don't seem to.
  • Is Jenkins still the king?
    3 projects | /r/devops | 16 Apr 2023
    Most all of those things are possible with Argo Workflows or Tekton with very great effort. But a sustainable system with all the features built-in.
  • So weird, stage named test is not displayed in pipeline
    1 project | /r/gitlab | 14 Apr 2023
  • Gitlab for FOSS reporting
    1 project | /r/gitlab | 8 Mar 2023
    If you wish to clone a copy of GitLab without proprietary code, you can use the read-only mirror of GitLab located at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/. However, please do not submit any issues and/or merge requests to that project.
  • Gitlab runners unable to clone over http(s) when git access set to SSH only.
    1 project | /r/gitlab | 28 Feb 2023
    GitLab versions 10.7 and later, allow the HTTP(S) protocol for Git clone or fetch requests done by GitLab Runner from CI/CD jobs, even if you select Only SSH.
  • No words v2💀
    2 projects | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 26 Feb 2023
    it sure does

What are some alternatives?

When comparing gitlab and gitlab-foss you can also consider the following projects:

Gitea - Git with a cup of tea! Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, including Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry and CI/CD

emacs - Mirror of GNU Emacs

Harbor - An open source trusted cloud native registry project that stores, signs, and scans content.

CryptPad - Collaborative office suite, end-to-end encrypted and open-source.

onedev - Git Server with CI/CD, Kanban, and Packages. Seamless integration. Unparalleled experience.

taiga-docker - [Moved to: https://github.com/taigaio/taiga-docker]

rich-markdown-editor - The open source React and Prosemirror based markdown editor that powers Outline. Want to try it out? Create an account:

cmark-gfm - GitHub's fork of cmark, a CommonMark parsing and rendering library and program in C

chatwoot - Open-source live-chat, email support, omni-channel desk. An alternative to Intercom, Zendesk, Salesforce Service Cloud etc. 🔥💬

markup - Determines which markup library to use to render a content file (e.g. README) on GitHub

Gitbucket - A Git platform powered by Scala with easy installation, high extensibility & GitHub API compatibility

taiga-docker - Deployment utilities for Taiga