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Travis and Circle CI predated Gitlab, with YAML-configured workflows checked in to the repository and the ability to use custom images.

GitlabCI's innovation was integration: making it a feature of repo hosting.

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I moved from Jenkins to Travis several years ago, and Travis's UI and configuration was such a fresh breath. Back then, pretty much _every_ OS project used it because of their generous offerings for open source projects. I agree with this comment that, and from my own experience living through the transitions, Travis CI made a massive leap leveling up the modern CI we have today.

Yeah I didn’t say they innovated CI/CD — I said they innovated CI/CD as a platform-native offering!

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