Katrin Leinweber shares her experience contributing to GitLab documentation and translations.

CEO Sid Sijbrandij discusses the role of transparency and contribution in an open source business model.

Here's a recap of GitLab community accomplishments during the Hackathon on May 29-30.

Daniel Juarez shares his experience contributing to GitLab from CERN.

GitLab.com surpassed 1 million merge requests in March 2019, hitting a new record for monthly engagement.

We're happy to support fresh CNCF graduate Fluentd with GitLab CI/CD, and excited about their latest innovation offering stream processing on the edge.

Our CEO sits down with Kubernetes co-creator Joe Beda to talk about the future of open source.

We're excited to see you all in Barcelona! Visit us at booth S21.

Our CEO sits down with Google Staff Developer Advocate Kelsey Hightower to talk fundamentals, the future of cloud native, and Kubernetes.

Your contribution graph captures a moment in time like few things can, and we want to celebrate it.

Here's what's happening with the wider contributor community.

Our Data and Analytics team manager reflects on how open source and radical transparency has benefited analytics work at GitLab.

Recent MVP Marcel Amirault shares why he started contributing to GitLab.

Commercial open source businesses are at risk of commoditization by hypercloud providers – here are some ways to avoid the trap.

Here's a recap of what the GitLab community accomplished during the Hackathon on February 12-13.

Verizon utilized microservices, automation, and GitLab to reduce datacenter deploys to under 8 hours.

This guest author shares his passion project: a free and open source solution for small charities and non-profits to accept donations online.

Long-time contributor Semyon Pupkov shares why he loves contributing to GitLab.

Your code has bugs, my code has bugs, everyone’s code has bugs (probably). Let’s fix that.

The popular dog-walking app is rolling out new features faster and with more confidence as they adopt GitLab for more of their DevOps workflows.

The first Hackathon in 2019 for the GitLab community will take place on February 12-13.

GitLab is available in many languages, but there's always more translation work to be done. Here's how you can contribute to translating GitLab.

Guest author Tim Lehnen shares a visual preview of free and open source platform Drupal's upcoming integration with GitLab.

Alexis Reigel shares his experience as a GitLab contributor on behalf of Siemens.

Here's a recap of what the GitLab community accomplished during the Hackathon on November 14-15.

Core team member Hannes Rosenögger shares his experience contributing to GitLab since 2014.

An industry expert from Indeed says it's a bad idea to make hiring decisions based on GitHub activity.

The Q4 Hackathon for the GitLab community will take place on November 14-15.

What we accomplished and learned from the Hackathon on September 27-28.

New contributor Luke Picciau shares why he started contributing to GitLab.

The first Hackathon event for the GitLab community will take place September 27-28.

Core Team member Jacopo Beschi shares why he loves contributing to GitLab.

Everyone can contribute to GitLab, so here are a few tips to make your experience easy and pleasant.

Freedesktop.org, the home of open source desktop technology development, has migrated to GitLab to improve their workflow and modernize their service.

Free and open source platform Drupal is moving to GitLab to accelerate developer velocity and attract new talent and contributors to the project.

How we're working to make contributions easier and more rewarding for the GitLab community.

Core Team member Vitaliy Klachkov shares how he started contributing to GitLab.

Our top-tier SaaS and self-hosted offerings are now free to educational institutions and open source projects. Find out how to apply.

The acquisition of GitHub by Microsoft is validation of the growing influence of software developers in the world.

We’re excited to welcome free software project GNOME to the GitLab community.

How one company helps video editors, developers, and project managers to collaborate on interactive video, by leveraging the power of open source.

Six compelling reasons why, warm fuzzy feelings aside, contributing to open source is good for your career.

Combining flexibility and structure: why we decided to use GitLab.com for all UnscrewMe documentation and code to keep an overview, always find the relevant information quickly, and easily track progress.

Guest author Paul Hibbitts shares how he combines GitLab with the flat-file CMS Grav to provide an open, collaborative and flexible environment that partners with his institution's LMS.

Join us in celebrating our most mysterious evangelist, GitLab Fan.

NYU reproducibility librarian Vicky Steeves shares why GitLab is her choice for ongoing collaborative research, and how it can help overcome challenges with sharing code in academia.

Stitch CEO and co-founder Jake Stein sits down for a pick your brain meeting with GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij.

Seven free software solutions to cover your most important use cases.

We're migrating all of our working tools to open source ones, and moving to GitLab has made all the difference.

With a magical combination of number of commits, authors, issues and merge requests, we're in great company with other open source projects with momentum.

The results are in – our 2016 Global Developer Survey revealed that open source tools are most preferred by developers the world over. Why?

Yes, it's worth it - CodePen has moved to GitLab!

Everyone starts somewhere.

Vaadin needed a new solution after their multiple platforms began costing too much time and frustration.

Our developer advocate Amanda Folson shares some community building tips with Jasmine Anteunis, co-founder of startup Recast.ai

Learn how PITCHME.md can help you present your ideas and code to any audience.

Earlier in this series, we explained how innersourcing can solve common enterprise challenges, the benefits of releasing early and often, and the efficiency of microservices architecture. In this final post, I’d like to share my thoughts on an exciting new trend: open source practices expanding into a variety of industries. Over the past year, we've seen more and more companies are engaging with open source.

Migrating from GitHub to GitLab and setting up your own GitLab instance

Many companies benefit from open source, and countless companies have opted to open source components of their infrastructure (or even their bread and butter) in an effort to give back. However, there are a lot of misconceptions about what happens when you open up your business' code and workflows to the public, and as companies delve into how to apply open principles within their organization, it's easy to get lost in the weeds. Here are some common misconceptions about what happens when you open source your code.

Convox is an open-source tool for deploying, managing, and monitoring applications on cloud infrastructure. It increases the productivity of your developers, reduces your infrastructure spend, and ensures that your architecture is resilient, consistent, and compliant.

Recently, Convox launched a native integration with GitLab for Continuous Delivery (CD). This tutorial will show you how to use GitLab and Convox together to ship software quickly and reliably.

Note: For this tutorial we assume you are familiar with Continuous Deployment (CD) and have a GitLab, Slack and Amazon Web Services (AWS) account. We also assume you are curious about how Convox utilities make setting up a private, production-ready cloud environment easy.

Git is a very powerful version control system. It can be a little bit daunting to try to learn everything around it, so most people just use the basic commands. We want to give you here some help with some tips you may or may not have heard. Either way, these tips can make your workflow a little easier.

Open source development has shown that volunteers can produce amazing software such as the Linux kernel that runs both on smartphones and supercomputers. The workflow used by open source projects helps to explain why these worldwide communities of...