Electric Cloud v. GitLab Release | Release Orchestration - Flow

Overview

Flow is the tool that Electric Cloud uses to create release pipelines across all types of deployment targets. They support both

Release Command Center

Vital data in easy to read dashboard

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Integrates with tools like JIRA, Jenkins and cloud providers.

Kanban board

Integrations with SonarCube, Slack, JIRA to illustrate the transition of features to a life cycle

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Audit Reports

Are a column inside of the kanban board that can be run on demand.

What this means for GitLab

The Release Command center is a view we do not have in GitLab. This is a great tool that allows for coordination, tracking and evaluation of release progress and health across your pipelines. We will be incrementally tackling this as a part of improvements to the Environment Dashboard and CICD Director Dashboard.

Enforcement of compliance is made easier with an interface that allows users to add manual and automated approval gates - rather than it being in a pipeline view via yml.

Audit reports are more mature than our offering, although, it is quickly approaching viability in ~"Category:Audit Reports". A key priority will be making both Release Evidence and Audit Reports human readable.

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Edited by Jackie Porter