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GitLab Isn’t Really Open-Source

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Re: GitLab Isn’t Really Open-Source

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This is just utterly wrong. yum upgrade Done. No problems for years now. Not a single one.

Are you using it? I've yet to come across anyone hosting their own gitlab instance that has not had trouble of some sort.

I ran the latest version inside docker for 6 months and used daily CI/CD across multiple environments. It's been perfectly stable and fast. Highly recommended.

Re: GitLab Isn’t Really Open-Source

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We went Gitlab to Bitbucket + Jira. Quite a bit more power, for less money (even after paying for cloud testers).

I’ve been wondering why Bitbucket just gets ignored with all the Github news. I get that Gitlab is the new hotness but they’ve been offering free private repos before gitlab was even a thing.

They had a 5 person contributor limit for free repos which REALLY pissed me off.

Re: GitLab Isn’t Really Open-Source

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My company has been self hosting the CE edition for quite a while; it's been totally smooth. Zero issues.

Same here. After a few years and moving it around from server to server (switched hosts a couple times), it's run flawlessly and upgrades are just one apt-get upgrade away...never had a single issue with that. We have 40+ projects and utilize container registry and CI with Kubernetes as well.

Dang. Afaict, you guys are the exceptions to the rule.

I guess you folks gave it enough hardware to run properly. From what I'm reading that's what's missing in a lot of failing installations. It seems particularly resource hungry.

Re: GitLab Isn’t Really Open-Source

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Same here. After a few years and moving it around from server to server (switched hosts a couple times), it's run flawlessly and upgrades are just one apt-get upgrade away...never had a single issue with that. We have 40+ projects and utilize container registry and CI with Kubernetes as well.

Dang. Afaict, you guys are the exceptions to the rule. I guess you folks gave it enough hardware to run properly. From what I'm reading that's what's missing in a lot of failing installations. It seems particularly resource hungry.

Code repository management is a central part of every company. I don't see any problem in throwing sufficient hardware at such a crucial piece of software.

Relevant: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/install/requirements.html#hardwar...

Re: GitLab Isn’t Really Open-Source

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Dang. Afaict, you guys are the exceptions to the rule. I guess you folks gave it enough hardware to run properly. From what I'm reading that's what's missing in a lot of failing installations. It seems particularly resource hungry.

Code repository management is a central part of every company. I don't see any problem in throwing sufficient hardware at such a crucial piece of software. Relevant: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/install/requirements.html#hardwar...

Thank you. I wonder why the advise a minimum of 4GB of RAM and offer a build for Raspberry Pi.

Changing that URL from "/ee/" to "/ce/" gives the same RAM requirements.

Re: GitLab Isn’t Really Open-Source

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Same here. After a few years and moving it around from server to server (switched hosts a couple times), it's run flawlessly and upgrades are just one apt-get upgrade away...never had a single issue with that. We have 40+ projects and utilize container registry and CI with Kubernetes as well.

Dang. Afaict, you guys are the exceptions to the rule. I guess you folks gave it enough hardware to run properly. From what I'm reading that's what's missing in a lot of failing installations. It seems particularly resource hungry.

It's currently running as an omnibus installation on a KVM node. 8GB of memory and 4 vCPU (E3-1230v6). Anything more than 4GB of memory and a couple cores appears to be sufficient for our use.

Re: GitLab Isn’t Really Open-Source

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Same here. After a few years and moving it around from server to server (switched hosts a couple times), it's run flawlessly and upgrades are just one apt-get upgrade away...never had a single issue with that. We have 40+ projects and utilize container registry and CI with Kubernetes as well.

Dang. Afaict, you guys are the exceptions to the rule. I guess you folks gave it enough hardware to run properly. From what I'm reading that's what's missing in a lot of failing installations. It seems particularly resource hungry.

Actually, one of the things we're liking about Gitlab is how lightweight it is.

...of course, it replaced Upsource for us, and Upsource is incredibly resource hungry, so maybe we just have a very, very skewed frame of reference. :)

Re: GitLab Isn’t Really Open-Source

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Code repository management is a central part of every company. I don't see any problem in throwing sufficient hardware at such a crucial piece of software. Relevant: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/install/requirements.html#hardwar...

Thank you. I wonder why the advise a minimum of 4GB of RAM and offer a build for Raspberry Pi. Changing that URL from "/ee/" to "/ce/" gives the same RAM requirements.

I would be guessing someone at gitlab was playing around with his/her Raspberry. But yeah, I would advise against running anything important on a Raspberry ;).

Re: GitLab Isn’t Really Open-Source

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This is just utterly wrong. yum upgrade Done. No problems for years now. Not a single one.

Are you using it? I've yet to come across anyone hosting their own gitlab instance that has not had trouble of some sort.

I've used it at two different jobs where we hosted it ourselves, and I host it for my own projects at home, and I have had zero issues with it.

I'm actually surprised that many people you know have had issues with it.

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