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Re: Gitlab 9.0

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Post by Snappy » Wed, Mar 22, 2017, 5:12 PM UTC

lotyrin wrote: post #27

jrobn wrote: post #20

I've looked at their website. Is Gitlab basically a self hosted Github and Heroku style (app containers) like product?

If you host it on top of a Kubernetes cluster, yes. Github (including kanban boards) + CI + Heroku (including deployments, workflows) + now even Monitoring. They are selling what one might call an "Omakase" experience for the whole SDLC. They call it "Idea to Production".

Thanks for that, lotryn, that might be my favorite quote today.

Re: Gitlab 9.0

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Post by thoughtpalette » Wed, Mar 22, 2017, 5:14 PM UTC

tokenizerrr wrote: post #15

victorwu wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the feedback regarding the sidebar navigation! Here's the issue that we used to chat extensively about it and came to our current design here in 9.0: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/26200 There's lots of discussion there. We went with a design that leans on getting out of your way and recovers some screen real-estate. We do recognize the one additional click required though. And we are activ…

Trading usability for screen real-estate? Sounds like your designers have gone off the deep end and fail to realize that Gitlab is a productivity tool, not an art piece.

That's quite a bold statement from an armchair UX designer. They obviously have reasoning and supporting data, maybe you're in the minority of users who've found that useful?

Re: Gitlab 9.0

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Post by connorshea » Wed, Mar 22, 2017, 5:22 PM UTC

psankar wrote: post #30

Any documentation / talks / videos about the gitlab + kubernetes integration ? Thanks for the awesome product. At work we switched to gitlab for new projects and loving.

Thanks for switching to GitLab, glad to hear you're loving it! :D

We have this demo from our most recent summit where we put together an entire GitLab instance in ~20 minutes on a Kubernetes cluster, though I'm not sure that's exactly what you want? https://about.gitlab.com/2017/01/23/video-tutorial-idea-to-p...

We also have some documentation on integrating with Kubernetes here: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/integrations/kuberne...

Re: Gitlab 9.0

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Post by sytse » Wed, Mar 22, 2017, 5:33 PM UTC

lotyrin wrote: post #27

jrobn wrote: post #20

I've looked at their website. Is Gitlab basically a self hosted Github and Heroku style (app containers) like product?

If you host it on top of a Kubernetes cluster, yes. Github (including kanban boards) + CI + Heroku (including deployments, workflows) + now even Monitoring. They are selling what one might call an "Omakase" experience for the whole SDLC. They call it "Idea to Production".

That is a very apt description, thank you for that. We're really inspired by the Rails doctrine http://rubyonrails.org/doctrine/ and think that the Software Development LifeCycle (SDLC) has room for a solution with convention over configuration.

Re: Gitlab 9.0

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Post by danial » Wed, Mar 22, 2017, 5:33 PM UTC

Congratulations on shipping 9.0. It's great to see a lot of improvements. Being able to reorder issues in the board is a welcome change. The subgroups is an interesting feature. I look forward to playing with it more.

I am still waiting on the ability to view issues on a board across a group (or now, a subgroup). Since Gitlab projects are repo-centric, I have hard time tracking issues across many repositories in a single place. A board that is visible at a group-level would solve this problem.

I believe this is a feature that's coming soon, though. I am looking forward to it.

Re: Gitlab 9.0

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Post by nik736 » Wed, Mar 22, 2017, 5:34 PM UTC

As much as I love GitLab the UI/UX is still very weak compared to GitHub. And the sidebar change is something in the completely wrong direction. You should also really check out how it looks on a 4k screen.

Re: Gitlab 9.0

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Post by Snappy » Wed, Mar 22, 2017, 5:35 PM UTC

psankar wrote: post #30

Any documentation / talks / videos about the gitlab + kubernetes integration ? Thanks for the awesome product. At work we switched to gitlab for new projects and loving.

The video in the blog post is all on Kubernetes as well, ans shows off terminal, deploy boards, and monitoring; all on Kubernetes. It doesn't go into detail, of course, but it's great if you just want to see it.

Re: Gitlab 9.0

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Post by microcolonel » Wed, Mar 22, 2017, 5:37 PM UTC

danial wrote: post #35

Congratulations on shipping 9.0. It's great to see a lot of improvements. Being able to reorder issues in the board is a welcome change. The subgroups is an interesting feature. I look forward to playing with it more. I am still waiting on the ability to view issues on a board across a group (or now, a subgroup). Since Gitlab projects are repo-centric, I have hard time tracking issues across many repositories in a si…

Not that this is a solution everywhere, but I'm always telling people that single-repo is the way to go for an integrated team. My rule is that if your business unit can reasonably control a codebase, and you have access to it, it should be in the same repo as your other codebases, full-stop.

I've seen too many npm messes where people obsess over putting every button, dropdown, heading, and dumb image component in its own company-specific repo. Then they put the whole thing in a "UI kit" which realistically they will never reuse.

Re: Gitlab 9.0

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Post by jobvandervoort » Wed, Mar 22, 2017, 5:38 PM UTC

danial wrote: post #35

Congratulations on shipping 9.0. It's great to see a lot of improvements. Being able to reorder issues in the board is a welcome change. The subgroups is an interesting feature. I look forward to playing with it more. I am still waiting on the ability to view issues on a board across a group (or now, a subgroup). Since Gitlab projects are repo-centric, I have hard time tracking issues across many repositories in a si…

Thanks!

We're working on it! We were holding off until subgroups shipped so we can make sure group-level boards work well with it. It's on the shortlist for one of the next releases. Our PM for this, Victor, might provide more detail here later.

Issue for this: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/928

Re: Gitlab 9.0

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Post by iheart2code » Wed, Mar 22, 2017, 5:44 PM UTC

kozikow wrote: post #10

What convinced me to try out gitlab today: "Today with 9.0, we are excited to release Deploy Boards for environments running on Kubernetes. The Environments page of Pipelines now offers a single place to view the current health and deployment status of each environment, displaying the specific status of each pod in the deployment. Developers and other teammates can view the progress and status of a rollout, pod by po…

Why are Deploy Boards being restricted to EEP customers? I would love access to that, but I don't need the support and geo-replication (and 5x cost increase) that comes with EEP.