Bitbucket vs GitLab CI

BitBucket comes with an integrated issue/tickets management system.

Bitbucket offers unlimited private repositories for free, as long as the number of members in a team is not larger than 5. In other words, it does not charge for each number of private repository, instead it charges by the number of team members.

Atlassian, the company behind BitBucket is also behind SourceTree, a free application for Windows and Mac wich works as a client for both Git and Mercurial and can be connected to BitBucket and/or other code hosting services.

BitBucket supports Twitter, Facebook, OpenID, Google and even GitHub authentication.

JIRA, the widely used project and issue tracker is developed by Atlassian, the same team that's behind BitBucket.

When the two are integrated, JIRA automatically updates issues when a new commit is made in the BitBucket repo.

BitBucket has a feature which allows users to import an existing repository that has been hosted elsewhere.

The process is very simple, either a service is selected from a dropdown menu and then a repo can be chosen and the URL for a repository can be added in the specified field. Once that's done, the repository is now uploade into BitBucket and can be edited, forked and compared to other repos hosted there.

BitBucket supports uploading and hosting static HTML pages for it's users.

Atlassian offers student licenses for both students and educators for Atlassian products that will be used in a classroom setting for education. This includes BitBucket, which means that students and teachers can have unlimited private repositories with and unlimited number of contributors.

BitBucket is developed and maintained by Atlassian, which is not an unknown venture, especially for developers. Atlassian has a great number of other products used by million of users worldwide, including JIRA, HipChat, Confluence and Stash.

You can link BitBucket with your Trello board easily.

All build setup are stored in .gitlab-ci.yml file, which is versioned and stored in the project. Like Travis do.

All of GitLab CI's code is open source and under the MIT license.

Tests are parallelized across multiple machines in order to reduce test times considerably.

Good integration with Docker.

The tests of GitLab CI run parallel to each other and are distributed on different machines. Developers can add as many machines as they want or need, making GitLab CI highly scalable to the development team's needs.

Since it uses the GitLab API for setting up hooks, the setup of GitLab CI for projects hosted on GitLab can be done in one click.

Easy to test and deploy on Kubernetes.