“It’s very useful to have access to the protected branches and the ability for others to just come in and say, ‘Hey guys, I think this is broken’ or ‘I think this could be improved this way, here’s maybe a snippet or a patch, could you please consider this change, …

“Since the beginning, we were talking about all our ideas and to have our roadmap visible for all the people within the company. You have to walk the talk, that’s key. Of course, focus on your customers: for developers, from developers."

“When someone makes a commit on a CoreDNS repo and they want to do a deployment, we need to be able to pin a specific environment with exactly which type of cluster CoreDNS is going to be deployed to. The environment specific variables allows us to go out and do …

"For a software engineer, everything is there, so the developers feel more empowered. All their work information is in one overview."

"Before we moved to GitLab there was a big burden on operation teams. It was a battle to enable developers to effectively do their jobs. The obvious choice was to have everything in one place and well-contained through a single pane of glass."

"With GitLab, it’s not just a set of tools, it’s also the culture of the company. If there is an incident, we receive answers in a very transparent way. That’s important for our culture here, too. We are dealing with gaming players. If players feel you are not transparent, they …

"GitLab is easy to use. Our system engineers onboarded very fast. You don’t have to explain every feature. It is very intuitive."

“If one team wants to look at what the other team is doing or wants to reuse some Ansible playbooks or some code snippets or anything, this is the central point of collecting these things. It’s also where they can develop and improve code."

"We have two big things thanks to GitLab. First, on the management and company side, we really had some nice economic results with GitLab. And on the development side and operational side, GitLab facilitates the team to really help bring the agile mindset to the company."

"GitLab is really helping us in our very modern architecture, because you're supporting Kubernetes, you're supporting serverless, and you are supporting cool security stuff, like DAST and SAST. GitLab is enabling us to have a really cutting edge architecture."

“With our old code testing tool, we had to provision to our maximum. So if we ever needed to run 50 concurrent tests, we were forced to pay for 50 all day, every day. Our cost was approximately $50 per concurrent test per month for 50 concurrent tests, even though …

"GitLab helps us overcome the problems we had and it allows us to enforce our processes and prevent developers from making mistakes in a very gentle way."

"We have one tool with a global overview over the projects. We can easily see everything."

“The backend for frontend services can now be built and deployed in a very simple way by the app developers. That was not possible with Bamboo. Merge requests also improved code quality and allowed for better collaboration. There are no more hurdles because of the CI interface. The app team …

"GitLab has played an instrumental role in preparing students for professional practice, especially in terms of learning about source control, builds and best practices in agile development."