When comparing Chisel vs GitLab CI, the Slant community recommends GitLab CI for most people. In the question“What are the best hosted version control services?” GitLab CI is ranked 7th while Chisel is ranked 13th. The most important reason people chose GitLab CI is:
All build setup are stored in .gitlab-ci.yml file, which is versioned and stored in the project. Like Travis do.
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Pros
Pro Free with no limitations
Both public and private repositories cost nothing to host. You can have any number of them as well as any number of collaborators. The platform itself is also free (libre) and open source software.
Pro Fossil support
This means you get a wiki and a bug tracker that you can work with locally offline and both are version-controlled. You are also able to customize, e.g., the look of your project's repository if you want to.
Pro File based configuration
All build setup are stored in .gitlab-ci.yml file, which is versioned and stored in the project. Like Travis do.
Pro Free and open source
All of GitLab CI's code is open source and under the MIT license.
Pro Parallel builds lessen test times
Tests are parallelized across multiple machines in order to reduce test times considerably.
Pro Docker intergration
Good integration with Docker.
Pro Highly scalable
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.
Pro Quick setup for projects hosted on GitLab
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.
Pro Kubernetes integration
Easy to test and deploy on Kubernetes.
Cons
Con No support for Git, Mercurial or SVN
Git especially is the most popular version control tool out there, followed closely by Mercurial and SVN, and Chisel supports neither of them.
Con Not lightweight
Not a lightweight solution, demanding and memory hungry.
Con Cost
Larger projects will need upgraded version
Con Security risks
Con Windows not supported
No Windows support, but it's possible to use a Bitnami stack.