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For the parent company, see GitLab Inc.
Not to be confused with Git or GitHub.

GitLab is a software forge primarily developed by GitLab Inc. It is available as a community edition and a commercial edition.

History

GitLab was created in 2011 by Ukrainian programmer Dmytro Zaporozhets. It was a side project, written in Ruby on Rails.[4] The company was formerly known as GitLab B.V. In July 2015, the name changed to GitLab Inc. In 2021, it became a publicly traded company on the Nasdaq Global Select Market, under the ticker symbol GTLB.[5]

In 2024, co-founder and CEO Sybren Sijbrandij stepped down to focus on cancer treatment, with Bill Staples succeeding him as CEO while Sijbrandij remained as board chairman.[6]

In December 2025, Sijbrandij co-founded Kilo Code, an AI coding startup, raising $8 million in seed funding from General Catalyst and others.[7]

Components

GitLab consists of several components, mostly interconnected by Unix sockets:[8]

References

  1. ^ “GitLab 18.10 released with agentic SAST FP detection and free-tier credits”. March 19, 2026. Retrieved March 30, 2026.
  2. ^ a b “GitLab LICENSE file”. Archived from the original on March 29, 2020. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
  3. ^ “GitLab Enterprise Edition LICENSE file”. Archived from the original on March 22, 2021. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
  4. ^ Degeler, Andrii (June 4, 2014). “How GitHub rival GitLab is building a business with just 0.1% paying customers”. TNX. Retrieved June 8, 2025.
  5. ^ “tickergate.com/stocks/gtlb”.
  6. ^ Novet, Jordan (December 10, 2025). “Former GitLab CEO raises money for Kilo to compete in crowded AI coding market”. CNBC. Retrieved March 23, 2026.
  7. ^ Lardinois, Frederic (December 3, 2024). “AWS and GitLab team up to bring Amazon Q agents to GitLab’s Duo Assistant”. TechCrunch. Retrieved March 23, 2026.
  8. ^ Evertse, Joost (2019). Mastering GitLab 12: implement DevOps culture and repository management solutions (1st ed.). Packt Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78953-406-1.