GitLab

GitLab deploys on a Friday and ... is down for a few hours

Updated Snafu blamed on config change

Devops07 Jul 2023 | 8

One third wiped off value of GitLab shares, Wall Street didn't like weaker outlook

Investors nervous in same week that Silicon Valley Bank failed

Devops14 Mar 2023 | 6

Tech job bonfire rages on as Microsoft, GitLab and others join in

Hundreds of thousands of techies looking for work, with ultimate cost to vendors not yet tallied

On-Prem10 Feb 2023 | 14

GitLab versus The Zombie Repos: An old plot needs a new twist

Opinion Git back, git back, git back to where your files belong

Devops08 Aug 2022 | 58

GitLab U-turns on deleting dormant projects after backlash

Updated Now makes vague pledge to shove inactive repos into slow object storage

Devops05 Aug 2022 | 41

GitLab plans to delete dormant projects in free accounts

Exclusive Hopes to save a quarter of hosting costs by binning repos that haven't been touched for a year

Devops04 Aug 2022 | 103

GitLab spots huge opportunity for DevOps platform as revenue soars

All companies will need to embrace modern software development, says CEO, and we'll be waiting for them

Devops07 Jun 2022 | 3

GitLab version 15 goes big on visibility and observability

GitOps fans can take a spin on the free tier for pull-based deployment

Devops23 May 2022 |

GitLab issues critical update after hard-coding passwords into accounts

Fixed passphrases for OmniAuth users not such a great idea

Security01 Apr 2022 | 6

OpenID-based security features added to GitHub Actions as usage doubles

GitHub Universe Single-use tokens and reusable workflows explained at Universe event

Devops28 Oct 2021 |

Want a piece of GitLab? It's going to cost you: IPO price per share settles at $77

One-stop shop all the way to the bank

Devops14 Oct 2021 | 6

GitLab all set to go public as revenues – and losses – rise

IPO was expected last year but then we had a pandemic

Devops20 Sep 2021 | 10

GitLab 14.2 brings macOS 'build cloud' closed beta and improved Gitpod support among nearly 50 new features

Open-source rival shows it can compete with Microsoft's GitHub

Devops24 Aug 2021 |

GitLab tries to address crypto-mining abuse by requiring card details for free stuff

Tweak only affects shared runners and new users signed up after 17 May

Software19 May 2021 | 10

GitLab's 10-day certification freebie offer lasted only two because, surprise surprise, people really like freebies

Biz expected 4,000 signups, got 60,000, system couldn't cope

Devops07 May 2021 | 9

SaaSy move: GitLab floats a new company over the Great Firewall of China

Who's looking after my code? JiHu, that's who...

Devops18 Mar 2021 | 8

GitLab latest to ditch 'master' as default initial branch name: It's now simply called 'main'

Only for new projects, but beware the hardcoded references

Devops11 Mar 2021 | 120

Popular open-source library SDL moving development to GitHub despite 'calamitous design choices' in git

'I don't have the energy to be a server admin for something that's held together with scotch tape and prayers'

Software10 Feb 2021 | 47

GitLab removes its 'starter' tier: Users must either pay 5x more or lose features

Customer: 'It feels like a bit of a kick in the teeth'

Devops27 Jan 2021 | 57

Git your ass to the cloud! Gitpod hooks up with GitLab to take on GitHub Codespaces

Gosh, that's a lot of Gits. But a viable alternative to Microsoft's stable

Devops08 Oct 2020 | 9

GitLab scans its customers' source code, finds it's as fragile as you'd expect

Bugs from Lodash and JQuery among the more commonly seen security problems

Devops06 Oct 2020 | 39

Unlucky for some, GitLab 13.0 is DevSecOps in a box, but will it play nicely with others?

We're trying, says senior dev evangelist

Devops22 May 2020 | 4

How generous of GitHub to slash prices and make all its core features free. So what gives? Oh right, GitLab

No coincidence that new offer closely matches that from smaller rival

Devops15 Apr 2020 | 20

Hey GitLab, the 1970s called and want their sexism back: Saleswomen told to wear short skirts, heels and 'step it up'

Exclusive Diversity, inclusion and transparency? Just as soon as we're done hiding forum posts

Devops06 Feb 2020 | 195

GitLab can proclaim diversity all it likes, but it seems to have a real problem keeping women on staff or in management

Special report Software biz's celebration of inclusivity questioned by ousted staffers

Software03 Feb 2020 | 79

Senior GitLab exec resigns over plan to stop hiring engineers in China and Russia

Code hosting company considers risk of pressure to betray customer data too great

Devops09 Nov 2019 | 59

GitLab mulls ban on hiring Chinese and Russian support staff because 'security'

Did Uncle Sam put you up to this? observers wonder

Devops04 Nov 2019 | 58

GitLab pulls U-turn on plan to crank up usage telemetry after both staff and customers cry foul

CEO apologises for ill-considered proposal

Software30 Oct 2019 | 23

GitLab reset --hard bad1dea: Biz U-turns, unbans office political chat, will vet customers

There's a line somewhere and we may just draw it, says code-hosting biz

Devops17 Oct 2019 | 49

Blood money is fine with us, says GitLab: Vetting non-evil customers is 'time consuming, potentially distracting'

Updated Code-hosting biz also bans staff from talking politics at work

Devops16 Oct 2019 | 77

Ditch Chef, Puppet, Splunk and snyk for GitLab? That's the pitch from your new wannabe one-stop DevOps shop

'Hyper-aggressive' company offers workflow portability for multiple clouds

Devops10 Oct 2019 | 13

DevOps darling GitLab pockets another $268m to be valued at $2.75bn

Drops Enterprise (Core) into VMware Cloud Marketplace, misspells own name

Software17 Sep 2019 | 3

GitHub builds wall round private repos, makes devs in US-sanctioned countries pay for it

CEO finds it 'painful'. Affected coders, more so

Networks29 Jul 2019 | 75

GitLab looks for users to CI to eye: Come join us on the happy path

Interview Source code, pipelines and boiling frogs

Software23 May 2019 | 4

'Exclusive swag' up for grabs as GitLab flings bug bounty scheme open to world+dog

Don't worry, there are cheques, too

Security13 Dec 2018 | 7

GitLab gets it, grabs $100m to become $1bn firm

Take last year's funding. Multiply it by 5. DevOps ain't cheap

Devops20 Sep 2018 | 5

Google Cloud CEO admits: Yeah, we wanted GitHub too. Whatevs

'I really hope Microsoft can keep them totally neutral.' Haha

Devops28 Jun 2018 | 25

GitLab's move off Azure to Google cloud totally unrelated to Microsoft's GitHub acquisition. Yep

Source shack says it's chasing reliability and Kubernetes tech

SaaS26 Jun 2018 | 43

GitLab crawling back online after breaking its brain in two

Database replication SNAFU took down three out of five PostgreSQL servers

On-Prem27 Apr 2018 | 17

GitLab freezes GraphQL project amid looming Facebook patent fears

Promising query language garbled by legal lingo

Devops20 Sep 2017 | 9

GitLab invokes the startup defence to explain data loss woes

'We're learning every day'. But does 'test your backups' really need to be learned?

Devops16 Feb 2017 | 41

GitLab.com luckily found lost data on a staging server

And restored itself. But the code locker lost about six hours of data for ~707 users

Devops02 Feb 2017 | 29

GitLab.com melts down after wrong directory deleted, backups fail

Upstart said it had outgrown the cloud – now five out of five restore tools have failed

Devops01 Feb 2017 | 143

GitLab to dump cloud for its own bare metal Ceph boxen

'In the long run, it will be more efficient, consistent, and reliable'. And it's cheaper, too

SaaS14 Nov 2016 | 10

Tokens of terror spark 'major security update' at GitLab

HackerOne's Jobert Abma spots import/export credential persistence problem

Security04 Nov 2016 |

GitLab snags VC cash, promises to 'Git-ify' the world

AND build more features, of course

Devops13 Sep 2016 | 10

GitLab offers Digital Ocean to soak up customers' CI burden

Don't worry, yells CEO, we have a data centre in the EU

Devops20 Apr 2016 | 5

GitLab upgrade takes aim at Kubernetes

Issues can be confidential, moved, or just plain deleted

Devops23 Mar 2016 |

Hollywood could learn a lot from software devs, says GitLab founder

Everyone's a critic? It'll be worse when everyone's a director

Devops15 Mar 2016 | 10

DevOps darling GitLab has hit those difficult 50s already

They grow up so fast these days

Devops25 Jan 2016 | 1