I love both GitLab and DigitalOcean, but why do I feel so devalued by IT deflation? The longer I'm part of something and the more effort I put into promoting a platform, the less perks I get. Why? I understand the importance of new customers, but why do you alienate the loyal user-base that made you what you are today? Are we rewarding ignorance now?
GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable
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Re: GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable
#12I love both GitLab and DigitalOcean, but why do I feel so devalued by IT deflation? The longer I'm part of something and the more effort I put into promoting a platform, the less perks I get. Why? I understand the importance of new customers, but why do you alienate the loyal user-base that made you what you are today? Are we rewarding ignorance now?
Because people need to eat.
Re: GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable
#13Kind of off-topic, but the work GitLab is putting in and the things they come up with every other day is crazily impressive. We moved from Github to GitLab sometime ago and we believed that to be a trade-off for moving to our own infrastructure. It always seemed like GitLab wasn't "quite there". Today, however it is a whole different story. We pretty much cannot go back to Github at all because of how well-integrated, stable and beautiful this product is.
Re: GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable
#14Kind of off-topic, but the work GitLab is putting in and the things they come up with every other day is crazily impressive. We moved from Github to GitLab sometime ago and we believed that to be a trade-off for moving to our own infrastructure. It always seemed like GitLab wasn't "quite there". Today, however it is a whole different story. We pretty much cannot go back to Github at all because of how well-integrated…
Thanks. That's really great to hear!
Although we still have ways to go, we recently made large strides in terms of performance and UX. Two areas we know we were lacking in, in the past.
I'd love to hear what we can improve further.
Re: GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable
#15In the shared runner settings, I see this: "GitLab Runners do not offer secure isolation between projects that they do builds for. You are TRUSTING all GitLab users who can push code to project A, B or C to run shell scripts on the machine hosting runner X." Seems like a very strong reason to use one's own paid DigitalOcean instances for runners instead of using the free shared runners, at least for commercial projec…
We'd need an answer from gitlab, but that statement was there with the old infrastructure for shared runners. It is possible that this issue is fixed with the new ones?
You're correct, we fixed this issue, the new warning will be: "Shared runners execute code of different projects on the same Runner unless you configure GitLab Runner Autoscale with MaxBuilds 1 (which it is on GitLab.com)."
Re: GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable
#16Came here to post it, but too late! Good job @fweespee_ch! The importance of this announcement is that DigitalOcean is all over Fortune 500, and GitLab partnership means that Git is not only mainstream - it's THE stream.
> DigitalOcean is all over Fortune 500 Do you have any reference for that? I was under the impression that DigitalOcean was mostly used by developers and startups. I was also under the impression that Git became the mainstream VCS a while ago...
What do you mean by "reference"? I was talking about corporate environment of dozens or so F500 where I participated in various projects personally, and saw myriads of archaic in-house development tools that would embarrass even prehistoric. DO was used in a couple of cases, not too widespread, but I had a feel it's one of the places it could really make a difference. And introducing Git to that would just make the whole deal so much better.
Consider that an average Global 2000 enterprise has over 10,000 in-house apps, and a lot of them are being developed in a dedicated environment.
Re: GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable
#17I love both GitLab and DigitalOcean, but why do I feel so devalued by IT deflation? The longer I'm part of something and the more effort I put into promoting a platform, the less perks I get. Why? I understand the importance of new customers, but why do you alienate the loyal user-base that made you what you are today? Are we rewarding ignorance now?
You're getting free CI runners where you had none. Is that not enough benefit? It's not as if there is a scale where newbies get EVERYTHING and vets of 10+ years get nothing.
New? Here is a small incentive.
Not new? Thanks for using the product, check out these fresh features!
Re: GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable
#18> *Note: Promotion code available for new DigitalOcean customers only.
This type of promotion really aggravates me. I'm not just saying this only about the announced GitLab/DigitialOcean partnership, but rather as a general comment as I see this customer acquisition ruse quite a lot elsewhere too.
I spend money with DigitalOcean. I don't feel particularly rewarded for my loyalty when I can't enjoy the same promotion as some new customer, who may never spend another cent with DO.
Re: GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable
#19I love both GitLab and DigitalOcean, but why do I feel so devalued by IT deflation? The longer I'm part of something and the more effort I put into promoting a platform, the less perks I get. Why? I understand the importance of new customers, but why do you alienate the loyal user-base that made you what you are today? Are we rewarding ignorance now?
At GitLab we try to cherish our contributors. Every month we celebrate a most valuable contributor https://about.gitlab.com/mvp/
We try to ship great new features in our open source version every month that you can use for free on your server and on GitLab.com
EDIT I can't comment for DigitalOcean, what follows is my personal opinion.
I think it is great that DigitalOcean is willing to both sponsor the Runners for GitLab.com and offer promotion codes. Although I understand with your wish for promotion codes for existing customers I also understand their decision to only apply this to new customers in order to make this cost effective.
I hope that as an existing DigitalOcean customer you enjoy the benefits of their cost-effective servers, quick boot time, great UX, and the templates and tutorials that they keep updating.
Re: GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable
#20> GitLab partnered with DigitalOcean to provide free Runners to all projects on GitLab.com Wow, I hope that doesn't get abused and taken away.
They should probably rate limit in a sensible way.
Good suggestion, if this gets abused we'll look at ways to prevent this, limiting the number of runner hours per user account is one of the ways we're thinking about.