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Recently, there has been a growing interest in Jira -alternative project management tools that work on a private server (on-premises / self-hosted) or in the cloud, can be connected to git or GitLab /GitHub and are open-source. One of the tools that meets those requirements is OpenProject – a product we officially represent and provide […]

Recently, there has been a growing interest in Jira -alternative project management tools that work on a private server (on-premises / self-hosted) or in the cloud, can be connected to git or GitLab /GitHub and are open-source. One of the tools that meet those requirements is Taiga – a product we officially represent and provide […]

Make the Right Choice for you: GitLab Self-managed vs SaaS (gitlab.com) Last update: September 2022 I have been asked many times in recent weeks how to decide between gitlab.com (SaaS / public cloud) or self-managed (on your own private machine – sometimes it is also called “Self-hosted”). This is a popular question since there are […]

Many GitLab Starter customers ask us “What are we losing by not having access to GitLab Premium capabilities?” And there’s another version of the question, asked by those who use the free GitLab version or have not yet used GitLab – and they ask: “What are the differences between Starter and Premium?” or: “Why should […]

Last update: 2/27/2022 In this article, we want to tell you how to control versions of complex systems using git submodules. Let’s have a look at the following imaginary example.  Our company has developed a system named Car, which consisted of 3 subsystems: Motor, Steering, and Transmission. Each subsystem has been developed in a separate […]

Last update: 10/26/2020 We regularly help our customers plan and implement on-premises and cloud High Availability (HA) solutions in close networks (air-gapped) or cloud / hybrid, and for a variety of tools – e.g. Atlassian Bitbucket, GitLab, Jira, Artifactory, SonarQube, GitHub and more. We are often asked “which HA solution is better in the scope […]

We are expanding our spectrum of GitLab and Jira integration solutions and present a new option for self-hosted GitLab instances: to detect an event in GitLab and to perform whatever action you want. This option can have a number of uses. For example: If a commit was pushed to a GitLab repository and the commit’s […]

Taiga is a project management tool, development management, issue, and bug tracking tool for shops that are based on Agile / Scrum / Kanban methodologies.  Taiga offers flows, forms, and fields that match those methodologies out-of-the-box. This is an alternative tool for Jira – especially for those who realize that Jira is too complex and […]

Yesterday GitLab announced that effective next month (October 2020) they will reduce the limit of free CI/CD minutes. As you know, GitLab Cloud (Gitlab.com) provides shared CI/CD runners, i.e. virtual machines on which you can run your build, test and other jobs. For example, we at ALM-Toolbox use them to run programs, which regularly create […]

What is PyTest? PyTest is a testing framework for writing tests using Python. You can write code to test APIs,  databases, UIs etc.PyTest can write the results to an XML file, which then can be used for further processing. More about PyTest in https://www.guru99.com/pytest-tutorial.html What is Xray Test Management for Jira? Xray is a Jira […]

Many projects use GitLab together with Jira. In such a combination, GitLab is used for git repository management, code review (by merge requests [MRs]) and CI/CD, while Jira manages development tasks, bugs and planning. GitLab provides a basic integration with Jira, which allows you to create links between Jira issues and GitLab commits and MRs, […]

Last week we hosted John Boero from HashiCorp company, who presented what’s new in Vault (for about half an hour) and also answered questions asked about the product (for about another half hour). A total of 19 questions were asked and he managed to answer them all! We added the questions at the end of […]

We’d like to invite you to a live webinars series (4 webinars) about HashiCorp toolset – 4 live sessions of “Ask Me Anything” and introducing the latest news about each product. Each webinar will be 50 minutes and cover one of the following tools: Vault, Terraform, Consul and Nomad. We’ll be hosting John Boero – a HashiCorp […]

Many companies planning to start using GitLab are not sure whether to go for the free Community Edition (CE) or for the paid Enterprise Edition (EE). Some decide to start with CE and consider switching to EE later, if they feel that they need more functionality and/or that they want GitLab’s support. Now what version […]

A new video titled “ Code Quality & Security in Your Development Workflow” was released last week by SonarSource – the manufacturer of SonarQube (and a company we represent). In this video they demonstrate how SonarQube can be integrated with GitLab, GitLab CI/CD and other SCM tools.We took this video and edited it in order […]