GitLab

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GitLab Inc.
GitLab logo (2).svg
GitLab website screenshot.png
Type of site
Available in English
Traded as
HeadquartersSan Francisco
Area served Worldwide
OwnerGitLab Inc.
Founder(s)
  • Dmytro Zaporozhets
  • Sytse "Sid" Sijbrandij
Key people
Industry Software
Revenue Increase2.svg US$424.3 million (2022) [2]
Operating income Decrease2.svgUS$−211.4 million (2022) [2]
Net income Decrease2.svgUS$−172.3 million (2022) [2]
Total assets Increase2.svgUS$1.169 billion (2022) [2]
Total equity Decrease2.svgUS$771.0 million (2022) [2]
Employees1,630 (January 2022) [3]
URL about.gitlab.com OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
CommercialYes
RegistrationOptional
Launched2014;10 years ago (2014) [4]
Current statusOnline
Written in Ruby, Go and Vue.js
[2] [5]
GitLab Application
Initial release2011;13 years ago (2011)
Stable release
16.9.0 [6]   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg / 15 February 2024;2 months ago (15 February 2024)
Repository
Written in Ruby, Go and JavaScript
Operating system Cross-platform
Platform x86-64, ARMhf
License Community Edition: MIT License and other software licenses [7]
Enterprise Edition: Source-available proprietary software [7] [8]
Website about.gitlab.com   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

GitLab Inc. is an open-core company that operates GitLab, a DevOps software package that can develop, secure, and operate software. [9] The open-source software project was created by Ukrainian developer Dmytro Zaporozhets and Dutch developer Sytse Sijbrandij. [10] In 2018, GitLab Inc. was considered to be the first partly-Ukrainian unicorn. [11] [12]

Contents

GitLab has an estimated 30 million registered users, including 1 million active licensed users. [9] [13]

Overview

GitLab Inc. was established in 2014 to continue the development of the open-source code-sharing platform launched in 2011 by Dmytro Zaporozhets. The company's co-founder Sytse Sijbrandij initially contributed to the project and decided to build a business around it. [14] [15] GitLab offers its platform using a freemium model. [14]

Since its founding, GitLab Inc. has promoted remote work [16] and is known as one of the largest all-remote companies in the world. [17] By 2020, the company employed 1300 people in 65 countries. [16] [18]

History

The company participated in the YCombinator seed accelerator Winter 2015 program. By 2015, notable customers included Alibaba Group and IBM. [15]

In January 2017, a database administrator accidentally deleted the production database in the aftermath of a cyber attack, causing the loss of a substantial amount of issue data and merge request data. [19] The recovery process was live-streamed on YouTube. [20] [21]

In April 2018, GitLab Inc. announced integration with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) to simplify the process of spinning up a new cluster to deploy applications. [22]

In May 2018, GNOME moved to GitLab with over 400 projects and 900 contributors. [23] [24]

On August 1, 2018, GitLab Inc. started development of Meltano. [25]

On August 11, 2018, GitLab Inc. moved from Microsoft Azure to Google Cloud Platform, making the service inaccessible to users in several regions including: Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria, due to sanctions imposed by Office of Foreign Assets Control of the United States. [26] In order to overcome this limitation, the non-profit organization Framasoft began providing a Debian mirror to make GitLab CE available in those countries. [27]

In October 2019, the company introduced a "no-vetting" policy for customers (except when required by law) and banned political discussions in the workplace. These restrictions were subsequently relaxed in response to some particular criticisms. [28] [29]

In 2020 at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, GitLab Inc. released "GitLab's Guide to All-Remote" as well as a course on remote management for the purpose of aiding companies interested in building all-remote work cultures. [30] [31]

April 2020 saw the expansion of GitLab Inc. into the Australian and Japanese markets. [32] [33] In November that same year, GitLab Inc. was valued at more than $6 billion in a secondary market evaluation. [34]

In 2021, OMERS participated in a secondary shares investment in GitLab Inc. [35]

On June 2, 2021, GitLab Inc. also acquired UnReview, a tool that automates software review cycles. [36]

On March 18, 2021, GitLab Inc. licensed its technology to the Chinese company JiHu. [37]

On June 30, 2021, GitLab Inc. spun out Meltano, an open source ELT platform. [38]

On July 23, 2021, GitLab Inc. released its software Package Hunter, a Falco-based tool that detects malicious code, [39] under the open-source MIT Licence.

On August 4, 2022, GitLab announced its plans for changing its Data Retention Policy and for automatically deleting inactive repositories which have not been modified for a year. As a result, in the following days GitLab received much criticism from the open-source community. [40] Shortly after, it was announced that dormant projects would not be deleted, and would instead remain accessible in an archived state, potentially using a slower type of storage. [41] [42]

In May 2023, the company launched the "GitLab 16.0" platform as an AI-driven DevSecOps solution. It contained over 55 new features and enhancements. [43]

Fundraising

GitLab Inc. initially raised $1.5 million in seed funding. [15]

Subsequent funding rounds include:

IPO

On September 17, 2021, GitLab Inc. publicly filed a registration statement Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) relating to the proposed initial public offering of its Class A common stock. [49] The firm began trading on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker "GTLB" on October 14, 2021. [50]

Adoption

GitLab Forge was officially adopted in 2023 by the French Ministry for Education to create a "Digital Educational Commons" of educational resources. [51]

Acquisitions

In March 2015, GitLab Inc. acquired competing Git hosting Service Gitorious, which had around 822,000 registered users at the time. [52] These users were encouraged to move to GitLab and the Gitorious service was discontinued in June 2015. [52]

On March 15, 2017, GitLab Inc. announced the acquisition of Gitter. [53] Included in the announcement was the stated intent that Gitter would continue as a standalone project. Additionally, GitLab Inc. announced that the code would become open-source under an MIT License no later than June 2017. [54]

In January 2018, GitLab Inc. acquired Gemnasium, a service that provided security scanners with alerts for known security vulnerabilities in open-source libraries of various languages. [55] The service was scheduled for complete shut-down on May 15. Gemnasium features and technology was integrated into GitLab EE and as part of CI/CD. [56]

On June 11, 2020, GitLab Inc. acquired Peach Tech, a security software firm specializing in protocol fuzz testing, and Fuzzit, [57] a continuous “fuzz” security testing solution.

On December 14, 2021, GitLab Inc. announced that it had acquired Opstrace, Inc., developers of an open source software monitoring and observability platform. [58]

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