Why and how GitLab abandoned Microsoft Azure for Google Cloud

When companies talk about moving to the cloud, they’re usually bringing their workloads from an on-premises datacenter to a public cloud environment, not switching clouds. But GitLab, a startup that provides developer tools, announced this week that it’s abandoning Microsoft Azure for Google Cloud Platform. GitLab chose to move because…Read More

GitLab raises $20 million to grow its DevOps software business

GitLab announced today that it has raised a $ 20 million series C funding round to fuel expansion into new software tools that unify development and operations processes. GV (previously known as Google Ventures) led the round, and WordPress co-creator Matt Mullenweg joined GitLab’s board. While the amount of capital raised was the same as […]

GitLab open-sources Pages as part of its free Community Edition

GitLab, a startup that offers open-source and premium source code repository software, today announced the availability of GitLab Pages code in its open-source Community Edition distribution. GitLab Pages lets people easily create and update their own websites with a number of static site generators (SSGs) such as Jekyll and Pelican. Previously GitLab Pages was available […]