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Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it

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Re: Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it

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Post by woodcut »

pyther24 wrote: post #8
jobvandervoort wrote: post #4

As always, we're happy to answer any questions about GitLab.

Why doesn't LFS support SSH authentication? It has been requested numerous times and has missed numerous milestones. I'm still not convinced it will hit 8.11. We desperately need LFS support, but we use one time tokens, so LFS Authentication over HTTPS just won't work for us. We are an EE customer and this future is way more useful than a UI redesign! https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/3589

Git-LFS is a github project, you'd be better off asking them. But yeah I share your exp. without SSH and with all its numerous bugs LFS is one of the worst pieces of software i've come across. We switched to using rsync for binaries/ large files etc.

Re: Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it

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Post by chewmieser »

hochchristoph wrote: post #17

Gitlab users: How many hours per year do you spend on doing maintenance for your setup? (servers, updating, backups, troubleshooting, etc.)

I login to my server once a week and run a yum update. Backups are scheduled, so I don't have to concern myself with that.

No troubleshooting. But we're a small (Love it.

Re: Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it

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Post by icebraining »

hochchristoph wrote: post #17

Gitlab users: How many hours per year do you spend on doing maintenance for your setup? (servers, updating, backups, troubleshooting, etc.)

Spent 30m installing it and configuring SSL. Nowadays I spend a couple of minutes monthly doing "aptitude update && aptitude install gitlab-ce" (after 5-15m reading about the new release, to see if it's worth it / problem free). We never had an issue with the auto-upgrade.

It comes with support for automatic offsite backups (we use S3), so besides occasionally restoring to make sure they're working, that takes no time at all.

Re: Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it

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Post by jobvandervoort »

insanebits wrote: post #6

I'm recently setup Gitlab for my personal projects, import from bitbucket was a breeze. I've used omnibus installer and it was almost painless, only a couple of issues because of LXC limits. My only concern is resource usage, it does take at least 2Gb memory, are there any options to tweak it?

We do recommend you allocate resources generously, with 2Gb minimum.

That said, there are ways to tweak it. I believe you can reduce the default amount of Unicorn workers to one, as a start. Further than that I'm out of my league; I'll ask one of our awesome service engineers to respond here.

Re: Moving to GitLab: Yes, it's worth it

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Post by chrisan »

How about costs compared to Bitbucket? I appreciate what you guys are doing but I think Github is cashing in on their brand and for a while they had the best UX (they still might! but I no longer care anymore as all the competitors are "good enough" for me) which lets them set a high premium people will pay. However, I think it's unfair to leave out Bitbucket, they have come a long way.

The first example of 8 developers and 20 repos is $10/month

or 100 developers and 300 repos examples is $100/month

What is the cost and/or time involved in maintaining DigitalOcean (or whatever VPS)? Security updates, upgrades, redundancy/availability, backups, or when something goes wrong the time involved in debugging/fixing (github/bitbucket have had their problems, is gitlab 100% available w/o hiccups)?

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