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GitLab Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitLab

Not to be confused with Git or GitHub.

GitLab
Developer(s)GitLab Inc.
Initial release2011; 14 years ago (2011)
Stable release
18.1[1] Edit this on Wikidata / 19 June 2025; 4 days ago (19 June 2025)
Repository
Written inRuby, Go and JavaScript
Operating systemCross-platform
Platformx86-64, ARMhf
LicenseCommunity Edition: MIT License and other software licenses[2]
Enterprise Edition: Source-available proprietary software[2][3]
Websiteabout.gitlab.com Edit this on Wikidata

GitLab is a software forge primarily developed by GitLab Inc. It is available as a community edition and a commercial edition.

History

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GitLab was created in 2011 by Ukrainian programmer Dmitriy Zaporozhets as a side project written in Ruby on Rails. Sytse Sijbrandij wanted to sell it as a service, which Zaporozhets agreed to. So the GitLab B.V. was founded in Utrecht in the Netherlands. Later Zaporozhets quit his job and started as CTO at GitLab.[4]

In 2015 GitLab became Member in the Y Combinator and collected US$1.5 million of seed funding.[5] In September, Khosla Ventures invested an additional $4 million into the company.[citation needed]

In September 2016 August Capital, Y Combinator and Khosla Ventures collected $20 million.[6]

GNOME has also been using GitLab since May 2018. KDE also completed its move to a self-hosted GitLab repository in mid-2020.

See GitLab Inc. for more about the company's history.

Components

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GitLab consists of different components, mostly interconnected by Unix sockets:[7]

  • GitLab shell
  • GitLab workhorse
  • Nginx
  • Gitaly
  • Redis
  • Sidekiq
  • Database
  • Unicorn

References

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  1. ^ https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/06/19/gitlab-18-1-released/. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ^ a b "GitLab LICENSE file". Archived from the original on March 29, 2020. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
  3. ^ "GitLab Enterprise Edition LICENSE file". Archived from the original on March 22, 2021. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
  4. ^ Degeler, Andrii (June 4, 2014). "How GitHub rival GitLab is building a business with just 0.1% paying customers". TNX. Retrieved June 8, 2025.
  5. ^ "1.5M raised in seed funding for GitLab to accelerate growth and expand operations". GitLab Blog. GitLab. July 9, 2015. Retrieved June 8, 2025.
  6. ^ Weinberger, Matt (September 13, 2016). "Programming's best-kept secret just got $20 million to finally win the attention it deserves". Business Insider. Business Insider. Retrieved June 8, 2025.
  7. ^ Evertse, Joost (2019). Mastering GitLab 12: implement DevOps culture and repository management solutions (1st ed.). Packt Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78953-406-1.
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