GitLab
Git hosting, code review, CI/CD, container registry and issue tracking — in one self-hostable platform.
GitLab
GitLab is a complete DevSecOps platform that bundles source control, merge requests, CI/CD pipelines, a container and package registry, secret scanning, container scanning and issue tracking into a single application. The Community Edition is open source and can be self-hosted on your own hardware.
Your source code, your build pipelines and your container images describe how your company makes money. Renting that from GitHub or Bitbucket means a US hyperscaler can read every diff, see every deployment and pull the plug under sanction. Self-hosted GitLab keeps the whole DevOps lifecycle inside your perimeter — without giving up the merge request, pipeline and registry UX engineers actually like.
Capabilities
Git hosting and merge requests
Repositories, branches, protected branches, code owners, suggested edits and a polished merge-request review experience.
First-class CI/CD
Pipelines defined in YAML, parallel and matrix jobs, environments, manual approvals, scheduled pipelines and runners you can place anywhere.
Container and package registry
Built-in registry for Docker images, npm, Maven, NuGet, PyPI, Helm and more — no need to bolt on a separate Artifactory.
Issues, boards and the wiki
Issues, epics, milestones, Kanban boards and a per-project wiki — your delivery process and your code live in the same place.
Why this beats the proprietary default
The same advantages apply across every product on this page — open source is a category-level upgrade, not a niche preference.
Auditable source code
Anyone can read, review and audit the code. Security researchers, your own engineers, or an independent auditor — no black boxes, no "trust us".
Your data, your infrastructure
Runs on hardware you control, in a jurisdiction you choose. No silent data exports to a US hyperscaler, no "product improvement" sampling of your content.
Predictable cost, no per-seat tax
Pay for hosting and operations, not for every user, mailbox or feature flag. Adding the tenth or hundredth user doesn't multiply your bill.
Exit is built in
Open standards, open formats, no vendor lock-in. If you ever want to move — to another host, another team, in-house — the data and the software are yours to take.
Want to run GitLab on your terms?
We host, monitor, patch and back up the whole stack on European infrastructure — so you get the open-source upside without the operations cost.