Download GitLab 8.15

You can compare GitLab with the more famous GitHubbut contains some subtle differences. It is an environment for managing Git repositories on-premises and is released under the MIT Expat license and developed in Ruby on Rails. It is available in two versions, namely the free to use Community Edition and a paid Enterprise Edition with more features aimed at large companies. The two flavors are on this page explained. The development team has released GitLab 8.15 with the following announcement:

GitLab 8.15 Released with Auto Deploy and Web Terminal

With GitLab 8.15, we’re introducing Auto Deploy (shown in the video at 1:42), which automates setting up deploys and review apps. For a Ruby on Rails project, this brings setup time to under a minute.

Plus, to make accessing your environments easier and faster, you can now access them directly through a terminal in GitLab (shown in the video at 5:18).

We want to give the power of containers, continuous integration and deployment, review apps and container schedulers to everyone. With GitLab 8.15, we take away all the hard work without hiding anything. In the demonstration we setup and deploy a Ruby application with review apps, multiple environments, chatops to a Kubernetes cluster in about 12 minutes. This typically takes days, if not weeks to setup and use without GitLab.

For many people, December is a month of celebration and gift giving. This month, GitLab was again so lucky to receive many great contributions.

The MVP of this month is Michael Muncho for bringing beautifully-typeset math (LaTeX) to GitLab. Michael worked over a period of 6 months in merge requests with in total more than three hundred comments to bring this to GitLab.

We’d also like to thank you Warren Postma for his contributions on the issue trackers, and the community forum and generally being a great advocate of the product and the company. And lastly, we want to thank you Elan Ruusamäe and Dirk Horner for their contributions in technical design and implementation that have given super powers to Git Hooks.