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Discussion on: 10 free-but-professional tools for your dev projects

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Christian Baer

Github imho is overrated. I would always advise using Gitlab instead for 'professional' projects for 3 reasons.

  1. Private projects are free on gitlab.com. Even with the newest announcement from Github this is still better, because the number of users are not limited.
  2. It is a full CI/CD environment. This means build and test pipelines are part of the platform, Kubernetes integration is already there and the web IDE is pretty advanced.
  3. You can self host even in the free version if you like.

Also you can upgrade to plans that suits your need. There are 3 levels of paid plans so I think it is much easier to scale to the individual needs of a developer/team/company.

We are currently using the free version self hosted and even in the free version we get much out of it. Payed plans would not make sense for us (at the moment).