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GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable

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Re: GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable

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Post by jobvandervoort »

phillc73 wrote: post #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…

I can understand that you feel this is unfair.

Here's our point of view: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11529780

Re: GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable

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Post by awinter-py »

I use self-hosted gitlab as my primary CI and love it. Setting up CI runners is still too complicated (maybe because I use the gitlab docker image and there's no compose support). drone.io seems to have better support for deploying & cleaning up images, but I'm sure gitlab will get there.

Re: GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable

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Post by [deleted] »

abpavel wrote: post #11

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?

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Re: GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable

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Post by abpavel »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #12
abpavel wrote: post #11

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?

Because people need to eat.

Eat what? Other people? Not sure what you're getting at, because I'm paying my membership dues, and I'm quite sure you're not living on less than $1/day either.

Re: GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable

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Post by [deleted] »

jobvandervoort wrote: post #21
phillc73 wrote: post #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…

I can understand that you feel this is unfair. Here's our point of view: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11529780

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Re: GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable

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Post by jobvandervoort »

awinter-py wrote: post #22

I use self-hosted gitlab as my primary CI and love it. Setting up CI runners is still too complicated (maybe because I use the gitlab docker image and there's no compose support). drone.io seems to have better support for deploying & cleaning up images, but I'm sure gitlab will get there.

Great to hear.

We're working on making deploy [0] and working with Docker images [1] easier. That should also include cleanup in time.

I owe you a reply regarding Docker Compose support.

[0]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/3286

[1]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/634274

Re: GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable

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Post by fweespee_ch »

abpavel wrote: post #9

Came 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.

Sorry, I was checking my email at lunch and figured why not. :)

GitLab & Gogs are my two favorite Git collaboration platforms.

Re: GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable

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Post by pc86 »

jobvandervoort wrote: post #21
phillc73 wrote: post #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…

I can understand that you feel this is unfair. Here's our point of view: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11529780

Sorry that's a cop out. The complaint is that promo codes for a brand new, very useful integration are limited to people who statistically are less likely to use them (new users on a new platform). "We hope you continue to enjoy paying for great boot times and UX" is... not a reply worth typing, honestly.

I'm a small DigitalOcean customer. If you want the promo to be cost effective, limit it to the first 250 users or whatever. I don't think anybody here would give you a hard time about protecting the financial integrity of a program. But don't hide behind that if it's really just a way to get a few new users in the door (which is fine!) - just be honest about it.

Re: GitLab Partners with DigitalOcean to make CI more affordable

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Post by explosion »

sytse wrote: post #7
explosion wrote: post #6

In 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…

This warning is outdated for the shared runners on GitLab.com since we do not reuse runners there at all. All runners are destroyed after a since build. Please see https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/14732 for more background and our effort to update this message.

That's great to hear. Thanks.
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