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GitHub Advanced Security

Integrations to third-party commercial products and open source solutions via support for the SARIF format

GitLab

Core capabilities based on embedded open source projects and integrations with other open source solutions.

Automation & CI/CD

GitHub

Comparable native core capabilities

Certifications:

  • GDPR Compliant

  • ISO 27001:2013

  • SOC 1 Type 2

  • SOC 2 Type 2

  • ISAE 2000

  • ISAE 3402

  • FedRAMP LI-Saas Authorization to Operate (ATO)

  • Trusted Cloud Provider(™) with the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA)

GitLab

Comparable native capabilities

The last reported number was 10 million registered users in 2019. Uptime SLA is Over 17,000 GitHub Actions are available in the GitHub Marketplace to automate your development workflow.

Jenkins

Comparable native capabilities

1,800+ community contributed Jenkins plugins in Jenkins Plugin Marketplace.

Deployment models

GitHub

Cloud or self-hosted

Jenkins

Self-hosted only CloudBees is the cloud alternative

Frequently asked questions

What are some quick facts about GitHub Enterprise Cloud?

GitHub Enterprise Cloud offers a cloud-hosted enterprise product plan (SaaS) for large businesses and teams who need a complete DevSecOps solution. It provides tools for greater management of an organization's resources using sophisticated security and administrative features, for example through authentication with SAML single sign-on. GitHub Enterprise Cloud includes support for 50,000 minutes of GitHub Actions runtime for CI/CD workflows and 50GB of storage for shared components and containers. You can learn more about GitHub Enterprise Cloud in our full guide on how to do this in our documentation.

Does GitHub offer project planning and source code management in one place?

GitHub offers a complete cloud-hosted developer platform, which includes project planning, source code management, CI/CD, automation, application security and more. All of these features and capabilities are centralized within the core platform making it simple to plan projects, assign tasks, track work, and deploy code from one interface. GitHub’s project planning solution also integrates with task management and forum boards to track decision making trees, conversations, and project statuses. Learn more about project planning with how automation and CI/CD work on GitHub in our documentation.

Can I use GitHub tools to manage, build, and deploy software to Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, a cloud provider of my choice, or my on-site servers?

GitHub offers integrations with AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and other leading cloud providers through an end-to-end DevOps platform with cloud-hosted Git services—i.e., source code management (SCM) and versioning control. GitHub also includes project management, CI/CD, automation, enterprise-grade security scanning, and more to serve all software development needs.

Migrations made easy

Moving to GitHub Enterprise Cloud is simpler than you think with self-serve migrations from leading developer tools.

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