GitLab’s One-Stop DevOps Platform Pitch: Replace Chef, Puppet, Splunk, and Snyk?
At its 2019 Commit London event, GitLab staked out an ambitious position: a single DevOps platform capable of replacing a sprawling toolchain that includes Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Jira, Jenkins, Splunk, and security tools like Snyk. We examine the strategy, the trade-offs, and the questions it raises.