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Spotinst now offers a new service that enables you to integrate their Elastigroup to GitLab CI/CD. That means you can enjoy 3 benefits: Save money on Spot instances you install on AWS (Amazon Web Services) EC2. You can save up to 80% by using Spotinst (read below what Spot instances are) High availability that Spotinst […]

GitLab, a popular solution for smart software development on top of Git, recently announced a price increase for on-premise (self-hosted) editions: GitLab EES is changing in price from $39 per person per year to $48 and will now be called: “GitLab Starter” GitLab EEP is changing in price from $199 per person per year to […]

GitLab has acquired Gemnasium, a service that scans for security vulnerabilities in open source libraries, and soon it will be part of the GitLab product. This move helps GitLab users enjoy static code analysis; dynamic security testing; security container scanning and more. The tool can now scan Ruby, Python and JavaScript code languages, and very […]

It’s hard to believe that 2017 is almost complete… As the busy holiday season approaches, don’t forget to take full advantage of your remaining 2017 budget by having a look at our offering for Git/GitLab, ClearCase/ClearQuest or any other ALM toolset (including Atlassian, SmartBear and many other vendors). It’s a definite win-win. Contact our sales team […]

A great technical and short video we found online! We got the approval of the guy who made it (Gonzalo Sanchez) and added English Captions. Enjoy! If you want us to provide similar videos for Eclipse and IntelliJ, just let us know by contacting us: gitlab@almtoolbox.com [chimpy_form forms=”2″]   ALMtoolbox company is a GitLab authorised […]

Last update: 10/20/2018 GitLab users often ask us which GitLab version to select. No wonder: today there are essentially 12 (!) options (cloud, on-premise etc.), and the choice can be quite confusing. The purpose of this article is to help you to choose the right version of GitLab. So how do you choose? To make […]

During a recent GitLab live event, GitLab made several interesting  announcements: They presented their vision of “Complete DevOps”, and demonstrated capabilities that will soon be incorporated into their product. They announced that they had raised $20 million in new venture capital funding led by Google Ventures (GV). So far, the total amount of funding raised […]

Last week we hosted a GitLab event for R&D and DevOps managers. A satisfied GitLab user, Matan Keidar of Thomson Reuters, presented his work at the company, including GitLab, Jenkins and Slack. After receiving good feedback on this story, we decided to publish it here on the blog (text summary and a video recording). The […]

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We’d like to inform you that yesterday GitLab released important security fixes for versions 8.7.x to 8.17.x. These versions contain several security fixes, including an important security fix for a critical information disclosure vulnerability. GitLab strongly recommend that all affected GitLab installations be upgraded immediately. [chimpy_form forms=”2″]   If you need assistance to confidently upgrade […]

There are currently 5 different editions of GitLab, including free, paid, cloud and more. This variety confuses some users, so I wrote this article to explain the differences between the editions. I’m going to introduce the editions as different layers on top of each other. Each layer provides some additional functionality beyond the layer below […]

IBM InterConnect is around the corner! Below you can find the full list of upcoming ClearCase & ClearQuest sessions at IBM InterConnect 2017 taking place in Las Vegas on March 19-23. 2424A: IBM Rational ClearCase: Roadmap Review and Client Priorities. This session will provide users of IBM Rational ClearCase with an update on the latest product roadmap, […]

GitLab is sponsoring the DevOpsDays conference next week in Tel Aviv, and as their Israeli distributor we’ll be there too! If you attend the conference, be sure to drop by GitLab’s booth and say hello

2017 is coming, and to celebrate the end of the year, we are offering  a special 7% discount if you order licenses by 12/20/2016. For further details or to get a quote, please send an email to sales@almtoolbox.com We’re offering the following tools (we have developed over the years): Health checks solution for ClearCase VOBs […]

I’m happy to inform you that we now have a new release of our extension for ClearCase. This tool enables you to drill down into the history of any code line in a file. Download Visual Studio Extension If you suffer of slowness and awkwardness of the Version Tree of ClearCase, this extension can save […]