GitLab is a software forge primarily developed by GitLab Inc. It is available as either a free software "Community" edition or a proprietary software "Enterprise" edition.

History GitLab was created in 2011 by Ukrainian programmer Dmytro Zaporozhets. It was a side project, written in Ruby on Rails.

Components GitLab consists of several components, mostly interconnected by Unix sockets:

GitLab shell GitLab workhorse nginx Gitaly Redis Sidekiq PostgreSQL Gitlab Puma

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