A few days ago, Gartner, a world-renowned IT consulting and research company, released the "Gartner Magic Quadrant for DevOps Platforms" Magic Quadrant for DevOps Platforms . GitLab was selected into the "Leader" quadrant for its leading execution capabilities and vision integrity, which once again proved GitLab DevOps to the world. The excellence of the platform!
As the distribution version of GitLab China, Jihu GitLab has the same product capabilities as GitLab. Being selected as a leader in the Gartner DevOps Magic Quadrant is an important verification of the strength and value of GitLab and GitLab's integrated security DevOps platform.
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Gartner's assessment of GitLab
Gartner launched the Magic Quadrant report in 2006. Over the years, it has developed into an important reference for understanding various IT fields, and has been widely concerned and recognized by the market.
Based on the development trend of DevOps, Gartner released the DevOps Platform Magic Quadrant for the first time . According to Gartner, a DevOps platform is the simplest and most effective alternative to a DevOps toolchain , providing organizations with a range of integrated capabilities. Software engineering leaders should consider DevOps platforms as a means to accelerate delivery of customer value.
GitLab is placed in the "Leaders" quadrant of Gartner's evaluation of 14 DevOps platform providers worldwide based on ability to execute and completeness of vision .
Gartner states in the report:
GitLab's all-in-one DevOps platform is a single application that includes planning, source code management, continuous integration, deployment automation, observability, application security testing, software supply chain security, compliance reporting, value stream analysis, and incident management. And in 2022, GitLab will add support for DORA indicators to further improve the value stream dashboard.
GitLab is ideal for organizations looking for an all-in-one DevOps platform that has security built into the software development workflow.
Gartner evaluates GitLab as having the following advantages:
➤Built -in security capabilities
GitLab provides complete visibility and traceability for the software delivery pipeline, covering the whole process from code submission to production operation.
GitLab has also expanded its software supply chain security capabilities, including SBOM generation (Cyclone DX), build artifact proof, and code submission verification consistent with the SLSA (Supply-Chain Levels for Software Artifacts) framework.
➤Open platform
GitLab follows an open core business model, enabling customers and contributors to add new functionality to the core platform. GitLab adopts an open and transparent approach to building the platform, and realizes open source and openness by sharing Issue tracking, product roadmaps, and strategic direction documents that explain the rationale behind product decisions to the public.
➤Integrated platform
GitLab provides an all-in-one and fully integrated application with capabilities covering the entire software development lifecycle, and offers equivalent capabilities as a SaaS version and a private deployment version. The integrated platform is designed to help customers integrate suppliers, minimize operational complexity and integration workload between different tools.
So far, GitLab has 30 million+ registered users and 100,000+ enterprise instances, serving global leading companies including Fujitsu, NVIDIA, Siemens, Hilti, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Telekom, etc., helping customers make full use of the integrated security DevOps platform to achieve Faster, higher quality and safer development and release cycles. Awarded as a "Leader" in the Gartner DevOps Platform Magic Quadrant, further enhancing GitLab's market position.
As the Chinese distribution version of GitLab, Jihu GitLab complies with the Upstream First concept and cooperates with GitLab in research and development, and has become the second largest open source contributor to the GitLab project in the world . At the same time, Jihu GitLab is oriented to the Chinese market, providing product capabilities that are more suitable for the needs of Chinese localized enterprises; and continues to promote DevOps independent innovation, and make more innovative projects while incubating projects, and lead global innovation through the prosperity of China's open source ecosystem. So far, Jihu GitLab has helped 300+ customers from the automotive, medical, financial, corporate services and other industries to create elite R&D performance.
The DevOps market has huge potential, and Gartner's strategic planning envisions it: By 2027, 75% of organizations will move from multi-toolchain solutions to integrated DevOps platforms to simplify application delivery. This proportion will only be 25% in 2023.
Jihu GitLab will increase investment in research and development of technological innovation breakthroughs, continue to deepen the development of China's DevOps market, and promote the rapid transformation and development of industrial digitalization.
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