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Well, I was trying to clarify this statement from OP:

> DevOps become center part of Gitlab which we don’t use and need any of those feature. We all need a code storage, code review, issue tracking and the CI/CD.

It reads to me like this: "We don't use DevOps features in Gitlab, but we use CI/CD pipelines in Gitlab". So it is contradicting. As they responded, CI/CD is a subset of DevOps methodology.

I've used Gitlab and didn't know there were more DevOps tools other than their CI/CD features and runners.

I am still slightly confused.

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DevOps is whole set of tools. Gitlab includes features like monitoring, code scanning, Kubernetes integration, docker registry, cloud security and protections. And those are $1188 per year per person. By CI/CD I mean good old Jenkins that runs on a computer in the office that builds iOS Apps and uploads them to Apple AppStore (of course current generation of CI/CD is much better). Gitlab CI/CD and runners were there much before this "Gitlab is the one DevOps platform" saga.

Everyone in our company including HR, marketing, design people were also using Gitlab for task tracking. Therefore we need those fancy issue tracking features for better management. This features are in the tier that $1188/year per person. For the features we don't use is not something that we could afford.

Ah got it, thanks. I wasn’t aware that they’ve built all this stuff.

I thought the OP was maybe referring to Gitlab's "AutoDevOps" features which were introduced a few years ago. From their site:

>"GitLab Auto DevOps is a collection of pre-configured features and integrations that work together to support your software delivery process."

I remember upgrading a Gitlab instance at that time and ended up with an issue that was the result of the AutoDevOps feature set. It seemed that AutoDevops was turned on by default. My issue was easy to resolve but I remember thinking at the time it was rather opinionated.

[1] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/topics/autodevops/

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