Gitlab is an excellent SCM with a high focus on supporting continuous integration and continuous deployment. It is our replacement for Bitbucket Cloud for all teams starting in November 2020.
Gitlab Premium is a far superior product compared to Bitbucket Cloud, supporting many new features, handy integrations and it comes with a very powerful, very capable CI/CD system. Github Enterprise is arguably on the same level, but failed to meet our expectations:
Github Actions (Github's CI/CD approach) is only available on the cloud-hosted version, not on their self-hosted version. The same was true for other beloved Github functionalities, like security scanning of dependencies.
Github was unable to guarantee us our code would not leave the EU in the cloud-hosted scenario. This is a deal breaker, as ITP clients are more and more often requiring us to comply with that demand.
Github hosted could not offer 2-factor authentication if combined with both LDAP accounts and guest accounts. It could only be enabled if a single user directory was used.
In Gitlab 14.7, connecting to AWS, GCP and vault, and other cloud services is now possible by introducing the CI_JOB_JWT_V2 environment variable. I'll use this environment variable to impersonate a service account via workload identity federation.
Glenn Bostoen
Louis De Jaeger