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GitLab Quick Start Guide
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GitLab Quick Start Guide

by Adam O'Grady
November 2018
Beginner
180 pages
4h 26m
English
Packt Publishing
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Self-managed versus Software as a Service (SaaS)

GitLab can be used in one of two ways: either self-managed, where you host your own instance of GitLab Community Edition/Enterprise Edition, or using the online platform GitLab.com, which comes as a paid or free Software as a Service (SaaS) model.

Using GitLab.com comes with the benefits of no maintenance or infrastructure costs and regular automatic updates without any manual labour. They have an amazing setup with multiple backup strategies, redundancies, and failovers to ensure high uptime and no loss of data in the event of a major incident.

On the other hand, you might not feel comfortable putting all of your work on someone else's infrastructure, which is why GitLab provides an easy-to-install ...

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