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]
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Available in | English |
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Headquarters | San Francisco |
Area served | Worldwide |
Owner | GitLab Inc. |
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Industry | Software |
Revenue | US$424.3 million (2022)[2] |
Operating income | US$−211.4 million (2022)[2] |
Net income | US$−172.3 million (2022)[2] |
Total assets | US$1.169 billion (2022)[2] |
Total equity | US$771.0 million (2022)[2] |
Employees | 1,630 (January 2022)[3] |
URL | about |
Commercial | Yes |
Registration | Optional |
Launched | 2014[4] |
Current status | Online |
Written in | Ruby, Go and Vue.js |
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Initial release | 2011 |
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Stable release | 16.9.0[6]
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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 has an estimated 30 million registered users, including 1 million active licensed users.[9][13]
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]
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]
GitLab Inc. initially raised $1.5 million in seed funding.[15]
Subsequent funding rounds include:
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]
GitLab Forge was officially adopted in 2023 by the French Ministry for Education to create a "Digital Educational Commons" of educational resources.[51]
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]