GitLab Inc. is an open-core company that provides GitLab, a DevOps software package that combines the ability to develop, secure, and operate software in a single application.[8] The open source software project was created by Ukrainian developer Dmitriy Zaporozhets and Dutch developer Sytse Sijbrandij.[9] In 2018, GitLab Inc. was considered the first partly-Ukrainian unicorn.[10][11]
Since its founding, GitLab has been centered around remote work.[12] GitLab is the largest all-remote company in the world.[citation needed] GitLab has an estimated 30 million registered users, with 1 million being active licensed users.[8][13]
Company overview
GitLab Inc. was founded around the pre-existing GitLab software project.[14] It is a limited liability corporation,[15] officially launched by Sytse Sijbrandij and Dmytro Zaporozhets in 2014.[14]
GitLab Inc. runs GitLab.com on a freemium and offers a subscription service.[14] Since inception, GitLab Inc. has operated as an all-remote company.[12]
GitLab Inc. currently has employees in 65 countries and regions.[16] As of 2019, Gitlab policy was to do no vetting of customers, except where required by law, and to forbid political discussions in the workplace.[17]
History
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In September 2016, GitLab Inc. raised $20 million in Series B funding from August Capital and others.[19]
In January 2017, a database administrator accidentally deleted the production database in the aftermath of a cyber attack, causing the loss of a substantial amount of issue and merge request data.[20] The recovery process was live-streamed on YouTube.[21][22]
In October that same year, GitLab Inc. raised $20 million in Series C funding from GV and others.[23]
In April 2018, GitLab Inc. announced integration with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) to simplify the process of spinning up a new cluster to deploy applications.[24]
In May 2018, GNOME moved to GitLab with over 400 projects and 900 contributors.[25][26]
On August 1, 2018, GitLab Inc. started development of Meltano.[27]
On September 19, 2018, GitLab Inc. raised $100 million in Series D-round funding led by ICONIQ Capital.
A year later, in 2019, GitLab Inc. raised $268 million in Series E-round funding led by Goldman Sachs and ICONIQ Capital. At that moment, the company was valued at $2.7 billion.[30][31]
In 2021, OMERS participated in a secondary shares investment in GitLab Inc.[32]
During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, GitLab Inc. released its Guide to All-Remote and a Coursera course on remote management to aid companies in building all-remote work cultures.[33][34]
April 2020 saw the expansion of GitLab Inc. into the Australian and Japanese markets.[35][36] In November that same year, GitLab Inc. was valued at more than $6 billion in a secondary market evaluation.[37]
On June 2, 2021, GitLab Inc. also acquired UnReview, a tool that automates software review cycles.[38]
On June 30, 2021, GitLab Inc. spun out Meltano, an open source ELT platform.[39]
On March 18, 2021, GitLab Inc. licensed its technology to Chinese company JiHu.[40]
On July 23, 2021, GitLab Inc. open-sourced Package Hunter, a Falco-based tool that detects malicious code.[41]
On August 4, 2022, it became known that Gitlab plans to change its Data Retention Policy and automatically delete inactive repositories that have not been modified for a year. With this, Gitlab drew criticism from the open source community.[42] Shortly after, it was announced that dormant projects would not be deleted, and would instead remain accessible in an archived state, potentially using a slower type of storage.[43][44]
In March 2015, GitLab Inc. acquired Gitorious, a competing Git hosting service.[47] Gitorious had at the time around 822,000 registered users.[47] Users were encouraged to move to GitLab, and the Gitorious service was discontinued in June 2015.[47]
On March 15, 2017, GitLab Inc. announced the acquisition of Gitter.[48] Included in the announcement was the stated intent that Gitter would continue as a standalone project. Additionally, GitLab Inc. announced that the code would become open-source under an MIT License no later than June 2017.[49]
In January 2018, GitLab Inc. acquired Gemnasium, a service that provided security scanners with alerts for known security vulnerabilities in open-source libraries of various languages.[50] The service was scheduled for complete shut-down on May 15. Gemnasium features and technology was integrated into GitLab EE and as part of CI/CD.[51]
On June 11, 2020, GitLab Inc. acquired Peach Tech, a security software firm specializing in protocol fuzz testing, and Fuzzit.[52]
On December 14, 2021, GitLab Inc. announced that it had acquired Opstrace, Inc., an open source observability distribution.[53]
Application
Issue tracker, available in free community edition
GitLab's application offers functionality to collaboratively plan, build, secure, and deploy software as a complete DevOps Platform.[13] GitLab is scalable and can be hosted on-premises or on cloud storage. It also includes a wiki,[54]issue-tracking,[55] IDE,[56] and CI/CD pipeline[57] features.
US$252.7 million (2021)[3]
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