GitLab
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| Developer(s) | GitLab Inc. |
| Initial release | 2011 |
| Stable release | 17.8  / 16 January 2025 |
| Repository | |
| Written in | Ruby, Go and JavaScript |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Platform | x86-64, ARMhf |
| License | Community Edition: MIT License and other software licenses Enterprise Edition: Source-available proprietary software |
| Website | about |
GitLab is a software forge primarily developed by GitLab Inc. It is available as a community edition and a commercial edition.
History
[edit]GitLab was created in 2011 by Ukrainian programmer Dmitriy Zaporozhets as a side project written in Ruby on Rails. Sytse Sijbrandij wanted to sell it as a service, which Zaporozhets agreed to. So the GitLab B.V. was founded in Utrecht in the Netherlands. Later Zaporozhets quit his job and started as CTO at GitLab.
In 2015 GitLab became Member in the Y Combinator and collected US$1.5 million of seed funding. In September, Khosla Ventures invested an additional $4 million into the company.
In September 2016 August Capital, Y Combinator and Khosla Ventures collected $20 million.
GNOME has also been using GitLab since May 2018. KDE also completed its move to a self-hosted GitLab repository in mid-2020.
Components
[edit]GitLab consists of different components, mostly interconnected by Unix sockets:
- GitLab shell
- GitLab workhorse
- Nginx
- Gitaly
- Redis
- Sidekiq
- Database
- Unicorn
References
[edit]- ^ "GitLab 17.8 Release". January 16, 2025. Retrieved January 19, 2025.
- ^ "GitLab LICENSE file". Archived from the original on March 29, 2020. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
- ^ "GitLab Enterprise Edition LICENSE file". Archived from the original on March 22, 2021. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
- ^ Degeler, Andrii (June 4, 2014). "How GitHub rival GitLab is building a business with just 0.1% paying customers". TNX. Retrieved June 8, 2025.
- ^ "1.5M raised in seed funding for GitLab to accelerate growth and expand operations". GitLab Blog. GitLab. July 9, 2015. Retrieved June 8, 2025.
- ^ Weinberger, Matt (September 13, 2016). "Programming's best-kept secret just got $20 million to finally win the attention it deserves". Business Insider. Business Insider. Retrieved June 8, 2025.
- ^ Evertse, Joost (2019). Mastering GitLab 12: implement DevOps culture and repository management solutions (1st ed.). Packt Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78953-406-1.