Open-core DevOps tool vendor GitLab have announced their adoption of glab – a command-line interface (CLI) tool for interacting with GitLab. This furthers GitLab’s reach into all stages of the code writing process.
Written in Go, glab was created in July 2020 by Ghanaian software engineer Clement Sam, and has been worked on by over 80 contributors since. Its goal is to deliver similar functionality to the GitHub CLI tool ‘gh’. This includes working with GitLab issues and merge requests, and watching pipelines running directly from the CLI. glab works with both the SaaS product, and with self-hosted GitLab installations. The GitLab CLI uses commands structured like glab <command> <subcommand> [flags] to perform many of the tasks normally actioned from the GitLab user interface.
