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    Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft's Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is designed to make deploying and managing containerized applications easy. It offers serverless Kubernetes, an integrated continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) experience, and enterprise-grade security and governance. It allows development and operations teams on a single platform to rapidly build, deliver, and scale applications with confidence.N/A

    GitLab

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AGitLab DevSecOps platform enables software innovation by aiming to empower development, security, and operations teams to build better software, faster. With GitLab, teams can create, deliver, and manage code quickly and continuously instead of managing disparate tools and scripts. GitLab helps teams across the complete DevSecOps lifecycle, from developing, securing, and deploying software. Differentiators, as described by Gitlab: Simplicity: With GitLab, DevSecOps can…

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    Pricing
    Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)GitLab
    Editions & Modules
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    GitLab Essential
    $0
    per month per user
    GitLab Premium
    $29
    per month per user
    GitLab Ultimate
    $99
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)GitLab
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)GitLab
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
    No answer on this topic
    GitLab
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    98%
    Would buy again
    125 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    114 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    126 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    81 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    80%
    Implementation went as expected
    4 Answers
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    101 Answers
    Features
    Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)GitLab
    Container Management
    Comparison of Container Management features of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and GitLab
    Feature
    Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
    5.6
    1 Ratings
    32% below category average
    GitLab
    -
    Ratings
    Security and Isolation8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Container Orchestration8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cluster Management2.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Storage Management3.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Resource Allocation and Optimization9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Discovery Tools4.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Update Rollouts and Rollbacks1.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Self-Healing and Recovery7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Analytics, Monitoring, and Logging8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)GitLab
    Small Businesses
    Mirantis Kubernetes Engine
    Score9.4 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
    Score8.5 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
    Enterprises
    IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
    Score7.4 out of 10
    No answers on this topic
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    User Ratings
    Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)GitLab
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (6 ratings)
    8.9
    (142 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.9
    (4 ratings)
    Usability
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (5 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (11 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)GitLab
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    At one instance, there was a fire in our data center and the backup power had some issues because of which the whole DC went down. I believe with AKS and the replication it's easier to handle such a situation. Also, the scenario would have been pretty transparent to the end-users.
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    GitLab
    GitLab is good if you work a lot with code and do complex repository actions. It gives you a very good overview of what were the states of your branches and the files in them at different stages in time. It's also way easier and more efficient to write pipelines for CI\CD. It's easier to read and it's easier to write them. It takes fewer clicks to achieve the same things with GitLab than it does for competitor products.
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • Scales quickly when the user base increases randomly
    • Downgrades very fast if a bunch of users hop off the system
    • Great dev UX for IT
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    GitLab
    • GitLab excels in managing code versions, allowing easy tracking of changes, branch management, and merging contributions.
    • It helps maintain code stability and reliability, saving time and effort in the development or research workflow.
    • Powerful code review features, enabling collaboration and feedback among team members.
    • Robust project management features, including issue tracking, kanban boards, and milestones.
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • Steep learning curve
    • Expected charges are unclear until you see real production usage
    • Operations teams need to learn an entirely new skill set
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    GitLab
    • CI variables management is sometimes hard to use, for example, with File type variables. The scope of each variable is also hard to guess.
    • Access Token: there are too many types (Personal, Project, global..), and it is hard to identify the scope and where it comes from once created.
    • Runners: auto-scaled runners are for the moment hard to put in place, and monitoring is not easy.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    GitLab
    I really feel the platform has matured quite faster than others, and it is always at the top of its game compared to the different vendors like GitHub, Azure pipelines, CircleCI, Travis, Jenkins. Since it provides, agents, CI/CD, repository hosting, Secrets management, user management, and Single Sign on; among other features
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    Usability
    Microsoft
    Barring certain missing features such as operator management , open cluster management, it does gives lot of options to host containerized applications. The GUI may be improved and can give user more insights to the cluster rather than using command line tools. The integration with standard azure monitoring tools is a big plus to use Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
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    GitLab
    I find it easy to use, I haven't had to do the integration work, so that's why it is a 9/10, cause I can't speak to how easy that part was or the initial set up, but day to day use is great!
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    Reliability and Availability
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    GitLab
    I've never had experienced outages from GItlab itself, but regarding the code I have deployed to Gitlab, the history helps a lot to trace the cause of the issue or performing a rollback to go back to a working version
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    Performance
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    GitLab
    GItlab reponsiveness is amazing, has never left me IDLE. I've never had issues even with complex projects. I have not experienced any issues when integrating it with agents for example or SSO
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    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    Microsoft support was really good, whenever we raise any ticket they come back to us within a couple of hours.
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    GitLab
    At this point, I do not have much experience with Gitlab support as I have never had to engage them. They have documentation that is helpful, not quite as extensive as other documentation, but helpful nonetheless. They also seem to be relatively responsive on social media platforms (twitter) and really thrived when GitHub was acquired by Microsoft
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    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    Due to cost efficiency. And using AZURE cloud for other services as well. Azure Kubernetes Service is more suitable to configure CI/CD pipelines. With a facility of automated or One click deployment and integration of the application. As compared with other Kubernetes Services like Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service and Google Kubernetes Service, Azure Kubernetes is most cost-efficient with the same facilities and with an advantage to configure easily, manage easily, as it is one click manageable with Microsoft applications. It provides high Microsoft security to containers and secures applications from any kind of harm.
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    GitLab
    Gitlab seems more cutting-edge than GitHub; however, its AI tools are not yet as mature as those of CoPilot. It feels like the next-generation product, so as we selected a tool for our startup, we decided to invest in the disruptor in the space. While there are fewer out-of-the-box templates for Gitlab, we have never discovered a lack of feature parity.
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    Scalability
    Microsoft
    No answers on this topic
    GitLab
    I think is very well designed, and like any VCS it works as intended
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • Positive impact in moving applications to cloud from the in-hose data center to save cost
    • Sometimes got affected with some bugs on the AKS infrastructure but hasn't caused a big kios as our production footprint in AKS is not yet high
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    GitLab
    • GitLab cut down our spent on container, package and infrastructure registry
    • Best thing is we can now have everything in single platform which cost effective too
    • Quality of support is really good and they do have emergency support team as well which is great
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