GitLab is open sourcing 18 features for the DevOps lifecycle

Sid Sijbrandij, co-founder and CEO of GitLab Inc., has announced that 18 Gitlab features will move to the open source editions Core/Free. Pull requests have been created for moving each of the features, and the developer community is encouraged to take part in the process.

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So, let’s see what new features await open source users.

Plan, Create, Release & more

GitLab offers several editions with increasing prices that go from open source to $99/month: GitLab Core, Starter, Premium and Ultimate—self-managed on-prem or in the cloud—and GitLab Free, Bronze, Silver and Gold, which are hosted via SaaS on GitLab.com.

GitLab’s open source editions Free and Core can receive features that were developed for paid versions as the company has committed to “only move features from higher-paid tiers to lower ones, never the other way.”

Features that belong to different parts of the DevOps lifecycle, seen in the image below, are now moving to open source: Plan, Create, Verify, Package, Release, Configure, and Defend.

Source: GitLab

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Features for Plan:

• Related issues
• Export issues
• Issue board focus mode
• Service desk

Features for Create:

• Web Terminal for Web IDE
• File syncing to the web terminal
• Design Management

Features for Verify:

• Code quality

Features for Package:

• Package Managers (Conan, Maven, NPM, NuGet)

Features for Release:

• Canary deployments
• Incremental rollout
• Feature flags
• Deploy boards

Features for Configure:

• Network policies for container network security

Features for Defend:

• Network policies for container network security

See the GitLab blog post for more details.

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