settings, unless you have admin privileges to install, configure,
and upgrade your GitLab instance.
For GitLab.com, admin privileges are restricted to the GitLab team.
Admin privileges for [GitLab.com](https://gitlab.com/) are restricted to the GitLab team.
If you run your own GitLab instance and are looking for the administration settings,
please refer to the [administration](../README.md#administrator-documentation)
documentation.
For more information on configuring GitLab self-managed instances, see [Administrator documentation](../README.md#administrator-documentation).
## Overview
GitLab is a fully integrated software development platform that enables you
and your team to work cohesively, faster, transparently, and effectively,
since the discussion of a new idea until taking that idea to production all
the way through, from within the same platform.
GitLab is a fully integrated software development platform that enables your team to be transparent, fast, effective, and cohesive from discussion on a new idea to production, all on the same platform.
Please check this page for an overview on [GitLab's features](https://about.gitlab.com/features/).
For more information, see [All GitLab Features](https://about.gitlab.com/features/).
### Concepts
For an overview on concepts involved when developing code on GitLab,
read the articles on:
To get familiar with the concepts needed to develop code on GitLab, read the following articles:
-[Mastering Code Review With GitLab](https://about.gitlab.com/2017/03/17/demo-mastering-code-review-with-gitlab/).
-[GitLab Workflow, an Overview](https://about.gitlab.com/2016/10/25/gitlab-workflow-an-overview/#gitlab-workflow-use-case-scenario).
-[Demo: Mastering Code Review With GitLab](https://about.gitlab.com/2017/03/17/demo-mastering-code-review-with-gitlab/).
-[GitLab Workflow: An Overview](https://about.gitlab.com/2016/10/25/gitlab-workflow-an-overview/#gitlab-workflow-use-case-scenario).
-[Tutorial: It's all connected in GitLab](https://about.gitlab.com/2016/03/08/gitlab-tutorial-its-all-connected/): an overview on code collaboration with GitLab.
-[Trends in Version Control Land: Microservices](https://about.gitlab.com/2016/08/16/trends-in-version-control-land-microservices/).
-[Trends in Version Control Land: Innersourcing](https://about.gitlab.com/2016/07/07/trends-version-control-innersourcing/).
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GitLab is a Git-based platform that integrates a great number of essential tools for software development and deployment, and project management:
-Code hosting in repositories with version control
- Track proposals for new implementations, bug reports, and feedback with a
-Hosting code in repositories with version control
- Tracking proposals for new implementations, bug reports, and feedback with a
fully featured [Issue Tracker](project/issues/index.md#issue-tracker)
- Organize and prioritize with [Issue Boards](project/issues/index.md#issue-boards)
-Code review in [Merge Requests](project/merge_requests/index.md) with live-preview changes per
- Organizing and prioritizing with [Issue Boards](project/issues/index.md#issue-boards)
-Reviewing code in [Merge Requests](project/merge_requests/index.md) with live-preview changes per
branch with [Review Apps](../ci/review_apps/index.md)
- Build, test and deploy with built-in [Continuous Integration](../ci/README.md)
- Deploy your personal and professional static websites with [GitLab Pages](project/pages/index.md)
- Integrate with Docker with[GitLab Container Registry](project/container_registry.md)
- Track the development lifecycle with[GitLab Cycle Analytics](project/cycle_analytics.md)
- Building, testing and deploying with built-in [Continuous Integration](../ci/README.md)
- Deploying personal and professional static websites with [GitLab Pages](project/pages/index.md)
- Integrating with Docker by using[GitLab Container Registry](project/container_registry.md)
- Tracking the development lifecycle by usingn[GitLab Cycle Analytics](project/cycle_analytics.md)
With GitLab Enterprise Edition, you can also:
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-[Export issues as CSV](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/issues/csv_export.html)
- View your entire CI/CD pipeline involving more than one project with [Multiple-Project Pipeline Graphs](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/multi_project_pipeline_graphs.html)
-[Lock files](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/file_lock.html) to prevent conflicts
- View of the current health and status of each CI environment running on Kubernetes with [Deploy Boards](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/deploy_boards.html)
- Leverage your continuous delivery method with [Canary Deployments](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/canary_deployments.html)
- View the current health and status of each CI environment running on Kubernetes with [Deploy Boards](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/deploy_boards.html)
- Leverage continuous delivery method with [Canary Deployments](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/canary_deployments.html)
You can also [integrate](project/integrations/project_services.md) GitLab with numerous third-party applications, such as Mattermost, Microsoft Teams, HipChat, Trello, Slack, Bamboo CI, JIRA, and a lot more.
## Projects
In GitLab, you can create [projects](project/index.md)for numerous reasons, such as, host
your code, use it as an issue tracker, collaborate on code, and continuously
In GitLab, you can create [projects](project/index.md)to host
your code, track issues, collaborate on code, and continuously
build, test, and deploy your app with built-in GitLab CI/CD. Or, you can do
