the.com/gitlab
github's identical twin who insisted on building its own CI/CD pipeline just to prove a point.
means a devops platform for hosting git repositories, running pipelines, and tracking issues, all in one self-hosted-or-not package.
from started in 2011 as a ukrainian side project by dmitriy zaporozhets, born specifically to bundle ci/cd into the git workflow instead of bolting it on later.
open corefree tier is genuinely open source, unlike most rivals
remote pioneerwent fully remote before it was trendy, wrote the handbook
ipo yearwent public in 2021 at an $11 billion valuation
single appmarkets itself as one devops platform, not many tools duct-taped together