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Type of site

Git-repository hosting service
Collaborative revision control

Available in English

Headquarters San Francisco, United States

Area served Worldwide

Owner GitLab Inc.

Founder(s)

Sytse "Sid" Sijbrandij
Dmitriy Zaporozhets

Key people

Sytse "Sid" Sijbrandij (CEO)
Dmitriy Zaporozhets (CTO)

Industry Software

Revenue $150 Million(2020)

Employees 1,289

Commercial Yes

Registration Optional

Launched 2014; 7 years ago

Current status Online

Written in Ruby, Go and Vue.js

Stable release 13.12.0 / 22 May 2021; 28 days ago

Written in Ruby

Operating system Cross-platform

Platform x86-64, ARMhf

License Community Edition: MIT License and other free software licenses
Enterprise Edition: Source-available proprietary software

Website Enterprise Edition (including proprietary components):
Community Edition (without proprietary components):

Additional information

GitLab

Open-source Git forge

GitLab is a software forge primarily developed by GitLab Inc.. It is available as a community edition and a commercial edition.

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Y Combinator-backed GitHub competitor GitLab raises $1.5M

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GitLab makes CI/CD tools available for GitHub repositories

History

GitLab was created in 2011 by Ukrainian programmer Dmitriy Zaporozhets as a side project written in Ruby on Rails.

Components

GitLab consists of different components, mostly interconnected by Unix sockets:¹

GitLab shell
GitLab workhorse
Nginx
Gitaly
Redis
Sidekiq
Database
Unicorn

References

Evertse, Joost (2019). Mastering GitLab 12: implement DevOps culture and repository management solutions (1st ed.). Place of publication not identified: Packt Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78953-406-1. 978-1-78953-406-1 ↩