Azure DevOps provides an easy to use Marketplace of plugins/extensions which makes Azure DevOps’ extensibility prevalent at key places in the user experience, such as when authoring a pipeline.
GitLab does not provide a marketplace of plugins for integrations into pipelines.
GitLab also offers Progressive Delivery capabilities such as Feature Flags, Review Apps and Deployment Scenarios (canar, incremental, etc.), which Azure DevOps does not offer.
How do we Compare:
| GitLab | Azure DevOps | |
|---|---|---|
| Includes previous Release Manager (release pipelines) | Yes | Yes |
| Native container support | Yes | Yes |
| Save to any container registry | Yes | Yes |
| Linux, Windows cloud hosted agents | Yes | Yes |
| macOS cloud hosted agents | Soon | Yes |
| Deployment stages | Yes | Yes |
| Release gates, and approvals | No | Yes |
| Maven, npm, and NuGet package feeds from public and private sources | No | Yes |
| Caching proxy of external repos/feeds | No | Yes |
| Artifacts integrate natively with pipelines | Yes | Yes |