> They said enough was missing from Gitlab CE (ex: LDAP support) they couldn't drop in replace their current infrastructure with it. There must be more to this

> They said enough was missing from Gitlab CE (ex: LDAP support) they couldn't drop in replace their current infrastructure with it. There must be more to this. GitLab CE does support LDAP authentication. It's been configured and operating on our corporate GitLab CE server for over a year. Maybe they needed more advanced features like group membership sync? [0] For basic user authentication LDAP + GitLab CE works great. They also offer Mattermost integration, which means you can authenticate to Mattermost using LDAP, which would otherwise be a paid feature. [1] [0] https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/administration/auth/ldap.html https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/administration/auth/ldap.html [1] https://www.mattermost.org/features/ https://www.mattermost.org/features/