GitLab - Wikipedia

GitLab

Developer(s)	GitLab Inc.
Initial release	2011; 14 years ago (2011)

Stable release	17.8^[1] / 16 January 2025; 4 months ago (16 January 2025)

Repository	gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab
Written in	Ruby, Go and JavaScript
Operating system	Cross-platform
Platform	x86-64, ARMhf
License	Community Edition: MIT License and other software licenses^[2] Enterprise Edition: Source-available proprietary software^[2]^[3]
Website	about.gitlab.com

GitLab is a software forge primarily developed by GitLab Inc. It is available as a community edition and a commercial edition.

History

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GitLab was created in 2011 by Ukrainian programmer Dmitriy Zaporozhets as a side project written in Ruby on Rails. Sytse Sijbrandij wanted to sell it as a service, which Zaporozhets agreed to. So the GitLab B.V. was founded in Utrecht in the Netherlands. Later Zaporozhets quit his job and started as CTO at GitLab.^[4]

In 2015 GitLab became Member in the Y Combinator and collected 1.5 million of seed funding.^[5] In September Khosla Ventures invested additional 4 Millionen US-Dollar into the company.

In September 2016 August Capital, Y Combinator and Khosla Ventures collected 20 Million US-Dollars.^[6]

GNOME has also been using GitLab since May 2018. KDE also completed its move to a self-hosted GitLab repository in mid-2020.

See GitLab Inc. for more the company's history.

Components

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GitLab consists of different components, mostly interconnected by Unix sockets:^[7]

GitLab shell
GitLab workhorse
Nginx
Gitaly
Redis
Sidekiq
Database
Unicorn

References

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^ "GitLab 17.8 Release". January 16, 2025. Retrieved January 19, 2025.
^ ^a ^b "GitLab LICENSE file". Archived from the original on March 29, 2020. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
^ "GitLab Enterprise Edition LICENSE file". Archived from the original on March 22, 2021. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
^ Degeler, Andrii (June 4, 2014). "How GitHub rival GitLab is building a business with just 0.1% paying customers". TNX. Retrieved June 8, 2025.
^ "1.5M raised in seed funding for GitLab to accelerate growth and expand operations". GitLab Blog. GitLab. July 9, 2015. Retrieved June 8, 2025.
^ Weinberger, Matt (September 13, 2016). "Programming's best-kept secret just got $20 million to finally win the attention it deserves". Business Insider. Business Insider. Retrieved June 8, 2025.
^ Evertse, Joost (2019). Mastering GitLab 12: implement DevOps culture and repository management solutions (1st ed.). Place of publication not identified: Packt Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78953-406-1.