This is why we left Gitlab.<p>DevOps become center part of Gitlab which we don’t use and need any of those feature. We all need a code storage, code review, issue tracking and the CI/CD. We would pay advance features of those (epics, multiple assignee, etc) but we have to pay super expensive top tier which includes unnecessary DevOps stuff. We left and happy so far.<p>We are using Kubernetes and custom DevOps tools but don’t want to handle things the way that Gitlab does.
Old logo was probably the cleverest rendering of a fox using very few lines. The new logo is a lot less smart, much more standard. Typography is also uninspiring: seems to be using Inter, which is designed to not have any character (pun not intended). Although, to be fair, old logo also had very basic typography.
Old logo for comparison:<p><a href="https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gitlab-artwork/-/blob/9b07772f/wordmark/wm.svg" rel="nofollow">https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gitlab-artwork/-/blob/9b07772f...</a><p>Bonus:<p><a href="https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gitlab-artwork/-/blob/9b07772f/originals/gitlab.png" rel="nofollow">https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gitlab-artwork/-/blob/9b07772f...</a>
As much as I love the mustache fox, I struggle with GitLab being at the center of devops. I think source is more powerful to non-devs and hitching everything to devops might present some challenges.<p>I work with lots of scientists and they don’t care about devops much now and may never need to. But they love GitHub because they collaborate on scripts, manuscripts, demos, small data files, etc. They pay $4/month or whatever and don’t care about devops. There’s lots of people like this.<p>I think there’s a smaller amount of proper software devs making software that require devops and will pay for devops.<p>If GitLab is really about devops, then they should be repo agnostic and work with lots of repos. But their core is still source management that they do really well. So their marketing is out of sync with their identity.
I love it.<p>- I like little quirks in logos like the infinity here.<p>- It's much more minimal. The old logo had too many unnecessary lines in my opinion.<p>- I quickly associate the canine appearance and the color orange as a fox so I'm not sure why people are not identifying as one.<p>- The subtle borders are <i>chef's kiss</i>.
>DevOps Is at the Center of Gitlab<p>Yeah, just had a call with them and they confirmed that for only VCS its not feasible to use their platform.<p>What are people migrating to? I am looking at bitbucket again I guess.
Does this mean I can ewrite a web app, put the source on GitLab and have GitLab run the web app (ideally with very minimal hassle)?<p>If not, what does it mean? What is Gitlab letting me do now than (a) it didn't do before (b) Github doesn't do?
Ohhhhhhhh it just dawned on me that when GitLab says "DevOps" – they aren't confusingly saying "terraform, etc" type DevOps (Developer/Operations tasks combined), which is actually what everyone else means.<p>I think they mean "the operations around running a development shop" ... like "Developer Operations."<p>Silly, but makes so much of their random language about DevOps actually make sense now.
You literally couldn’t pay me to use gitlabs devops tools. They are very poorly built without seemingly any understanding of good practices in the larger ecosystem.<p>Just be a really great vcs, that would make devs love you. Right now they are playing the atlassian game of checking feature boxes which are all built poorly.
Before I clicked I already knew it would incorporate the horizontal lemniscate... that seems to have become synonymous with devops.<p>I'm extremely tired of that symbol at this point, I mean there's 4 of those images when I google for "devops" and nothing else: <a href="https://i.imgur.com/pr9d8KH.png" rel="nofollow">https://i.imgur.com/pr9d8KH.png</a>
Is this a new Firefox service?
Hey, I can create a real corporate identity for you. After a serious research and thousands of variants. It is cheap: only 200k USD.:)<p>Now, a question: Why established IT companies rarely understand the importance of the words "Identity" and "Brand Differentiation"?
Ah gitlab. I tried two whole days to do something, I assumed CI was created for: compiling a binary artifact, and distributing it with some sort of URL where I can always get the latest version.<p>Guess what: it cannot be done nicely without going back and forth with the API uploading that artifact via curl (?!) from Gitlab to Gitlab etc.<p>If even such a fundamental thing is not straightforward, I don't want to know about complicated things..
Anyone have experience with gitlab's Auto-DevOps stuff? Haven't really had an opportunity to use it (I do use their CI product) but am curious how people who've tried it find it.
Agreed. So much that the git part doesn’t seem to remain a priority anymore.<p>I use Github for some of our public repos and it feels so much better than Gitlab. It was surprising to see they’ve improved.
My gripe with gitlab is it's absolutely massive, compare to gitea and you miss a few features but you gain the ability for a lowly sysadmin to manage it.