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

• History

• Components

• References

• External links

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.cite-ref-4[4]

In 2015 GitLab became Member in the Y Combinator and collected US$1.5 million of seed funding.cite-ref-5[5] In September, Khosla Ventures invested an additional $4 million into the company.

In September 2016 August Capital, Y Combinator and Khosla Ventures collected $20 million.cite-ref-6[6]

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

GitLab consists of different components, mostly interconnected by Unix sockets:cite-ref-7[7]

• GitLab shell

• GitLab workhorse

• Nginx

• Gitaly

• Redis

• Sidekiq

• Database

• Unicorn

cite-note-wikidata-b5a5c9f33c4750a50a8f8a75867a5f1d0063de19-v20-11. "GitLab 18.1 released with Maven virtual registry (beta) and Duo Code Review". June 19, 2025. Retrieved August 4, 2025.

cite-note-ce-license-22. "GitLab LICENSE file". Archived from the original on March 29, 2020. Retrieved March 29, 2020.

cite-note-33. "GitLab Enterprise Edition LICENSE file". Archived from the original on March 22, 2021. Retrieved March 29, 2020.

cite-note-44. ↑ citerefdegeler2014Degeler, Andrii (June 4, 2014). "How GitHub rival GitLab is building a business with just 0.1% paying customers". TNX. Retrieved June 8, 2025.

cite-note-55. ↑ "1.5M raised in seed funding for GitLab to accelerate growth and expand operations". GitLab Blog. GitLab. July 9, 2015. Retrieved June 8, 2025.

cite-note-66. ↑ citerefweinberger2016Weinberger, Matt (September 13, 2016). "Programming's best-kept secret just got $20 million to finally win the attention it deserves". Business Insider. Retrieved June 8, 2025.

cite-note-77. ↑ citerefevertse2019Evertse, Joost (2019). Mastering GitLab 12: implement DevOps culture and repository management solutions (1st ed.). Packt Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78953-406-1.

• Official website