GitLab is a software forge primarily developed by GitLab Inc. It is available as either a free software "Community" edition or a proprietary software "Enterprise" edition.
History
GitLab was created in 2011 by Ukrainian programmer Dmytro Zaporozhets. It was a side project, written in Ruby on Rails.[5]
Components
GitLab consists of several components, mostly interconnected by Unix sockets:[6]
- GitLab shell
- GitLab workhorse
- Nginx
- Gitaly
- Redis
- Sidekiq
- PostgreSQL
- Gitlab Puma
References
- ↑ "GitLab 18.11 release notes". April 16, 2026. Retrieved April 18, 2026.
- ↑ "GitLab 14 Delivers Modern DevOps in One Platform". DevPro Journal. July 12, 2021. Archived from the original on January 30, 2022. Retrieved November 10, 2021.
- 1 2 "GitLab LICENSE file". Archived from the original on March 29, 2020. Retrieved March 29, 2021.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ Evertse, Joost (2019). Mastering GitLab 12: implement DevOps culture and repository management solutions (1st ed.). Packt Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78953-406-1.
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