I am a happy gitlab.com user. However, with all of this week's news I decided to see what it would take to run my own GitLab instance. I was surprised to find that on Digital Ocean and AWS Lightsail the one-click GitLab installs required an instance that costs ~$40 per month just for me, one user. Any cheaper/smaller instances were to anemic to run GitLab at all. Seems like there are some performance issues to deal w…
GitLab VPE here. We're working on Dockerized version that will run in a Kubernetes cluster, which should make this easier, assuming you've already made that investment in your infrastructure.
More pertinent to your concern about cost: It should make it easier for PaaS' who are k8s-based to run it for you and perhaps provide a lower price point.