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Шаблон:Infobox software GitLab Inc. is an open-core company that operates GitLab, a DevOps software package that can develop, secure, and operate software.[1] The open-source software project was created by Ukrainian developer Dmytro Zaporozhets and Dutch developer Sytse Sijbrandij.[2] In 2018, GitLab Inc. was considered to be the first partly-Ukrainian unicorn.[3][4]

GitLab has an estimated 30 million registered users, including 1 million active licensed users.[1][5]

Overview

GitLab Inc. was established in 2014 to continue the development of the open-source code-sharing platform launched in 2011 by Dmytro Zaporozhets. The company's co-founder Sytse Sijbrandij initially contributed to the project and decided to build a business around it.[6][7] GitLab offers its platform using a freemium model.[6]

Since its founding, GitLab Inc. has promoted remote work[8] and is known as one of the largest all-remote companies in the world.[9] By 2020, the company employed 1300 people in 65 countries.[8][10]

History

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The company participated in the YCombinator seed accelerator Winter 2015 program. By 2015, notable customers included Alibaba Group and IBM.[7]

In January 2017, a database administrator accidentally deleted the production database in the aftermath of a cyber attack, causing the loss of a substantial amount of issue data and merge request data.[11] The recovery process was live-streamed on YouTube.[12][13]

In April 2018, GitLab Inc. announced integration with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) to simplify the process of spinning up a new cluster to deploy applications.[14]

In May 2018, GNOME moved to GitLab with over 400 projects and 900 contributors.[15][16]

On August 1, 2018, GitLab Inc. started development of Meltano.[17]

On August 11, 2018, GitLab Inc. moved from Microsoft Azure to Google Cloud Platform, making the service inaccessible to users in several regions including: Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria, due to sanctions imposed by Office of Foreign Assets Control of the United States.[18] In order to overcome this limitation, the non-profit organization Framasoft began providing a Debian mirror to make GitLab CE available in those countries.[19]

In October 2019, the company introduced a "no-vetting" policy for customers (except when required by law) and banned political discussions in the workplace. These restrictions were subsequently relaxed in response to some particular criticisms.[20][21]

In 2020 at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, GitLab Inc. released "GitLab's Guide to All-Remote" as well as a course on remote management for the purpose of aiding companies interested in building all-remote work cultures.[22][23]

April 2020 saw the expansion of GitLab Inc. into the Australian and Japanese markets.[24][25] In November that same year, GitLab Inc. was valued at more than $6 billion in a secondary market evaluation.[26]

In 2021, OMERS participated in a secondary shares investment in GitLab Inc.[27]

On June 2, 2021, GitLab Inc. also acquired UnReview, a tool that automates software review cycles.[28]

On March 18, 2021, GitLab Inc. licensed its technology to the Chinese company JiHu.[29]

On June 30, 2021, GitLab Inc. spun out Meltano, an open source ELT platform.[30]

On July 23, 2021, GitLab Inc. released its software Package Hunter, a Falco-based tool that detects malicious code,[31] under the open-source MIT Licence.

On August 4, 2022, GitLab announced its plans for changing its Data Retention Policy and for automatically deleting inactive repositories which have not been modified for a year. As a result, in the following days GitLab received much criticism from the open-source community.[32] Shortly after, it was announced that dormant projects would not be deleted, and would instead remain accessible in an archived state, potentially using a slower type of storage.[33][34]

In May 2023, the company launched the "GitLab 16.0" platform as an AI-driven DevSecOps solution. It contained over 55 new features and enhancements.[35]

Fundraising

GitLab Inc. initially raised $1.5 million in seed funding.[7]

Subsequent funding rounds include:

  • September 2015 - $4 million in Series A funding from Khosla Ventures.[36]
  • September 2016 - $20 million in Series B funding from August Capital and others.[37]
  • October 2016 - $20 million in Series C funding from GV and others.[38]
  • September 19, 2018 - $100 million in Series D-round funding led by ICONIQ Capital.
  • 2019 - $268 million in Series E-round funding led by Goldman Sachs and ICONIQ Capital at a valuation of $2.7 billion.[39][40]

IPO

On September 17, 2021, GitLab Inc. publicly filed a registration statement Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) relating to the proposed initial public offering of its Class A common stock.[41] The firm began trading on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker "GTLB" on October 14, 2021.[42]

Adoption

GitLab Forge was officially adopted in 2023 by the French Ministry for Education to create a "Digital Educational Commons" of educational resources.[43]

Acquisitions

In March 2015, GitLab Inc. acquired competing Git hosting Service Gitorious, which had around 822,000 registered users at the time.[44] These users were encouraged to move to GitLab and the Gitorious service was discontinued in June 2015.[44]

On March 15, 2017, GitLab Inc. Announced the acquisition of Gitter.[45] Included in the announcement was the stated intent that Gitter would continue as a standalone project. Additionally, GitLab Inc. announced that the code would become open-source under an MIT License no later than June 2017.[46]

In January 2018, GitLab Inc. acquired Gemnasium, a service that provided security scanners with alerts for known security vulnerabilities in open-source libraries of various languages.[47] The service was scheduled for complete shut-down on May 15. Gemnasium features and technology was integrated into GitLab EE and as part of CI/CD.[48]

On June 11, 2020, GitLab Inc. acquired Peach Tech, a security software firm specializing in protocol fuzz testing, and Fuzzit,[49] a continuous “fuzz” security testing solution.

On December 14, 2021, GitLab Inc. announced that it had acquired Opstrace, Inc., developers of an open source software monitoring and observability platform.[50]

See also

References

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