GitLab CE

GitLab Community Edition is the everything-included option: repositories, merge requests, a mature CI/CD system, container registry, and project management in one integrated platform that many companies already know.

The completeness costs resources — a comfortable instance wants several gigabytes of RAM, and upgrades deserve attention and backups. The Omnibus package and official Docker images keep administration manageable, but this is a platform you operate, not a container you forget.

Right for teams who will actually use the integrated CI/CD and want one tool instead of four; oversized for a personal forge.