GitLab is now running on GCP

Post by grezql » Sat, Aug 11, 2018, 7:37 PM UTC

moltar wrote: post #6

ljm wrote: post #5

GKE is fantastic to work with, we rolled with that on a nascent project in favour of Heroku and other PaaS. We had one or two rough spots but we’re not paying nearly as much as we would to have the entire thing managed by other parties, along with the accounting and awareness overhead that incurs. Kubernetes has a learning curve but it delivers an elegance too. The ulterior motive is that understanding Kubernetes now…

But the cost of Heroku on free, or nearly free tier, isn’t comparable to GKE. When I tried to launch a demo cluster it was basically launching numerous VMs just to support itself. I don’t know the monthly total, since I abandoned that idea pretty quick. But I imagine it’d be over $50/mo to run a tiny web app. My point is that every offering has its place. Heroku is great for getting going. Recently I’ve been experime…

Post by ZiiS » Sat, Aug 11, 2018, 7:41 PM UTC

smallbigfish wrote: post #33

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I know Amazon or Microsoft aren't much better, but it's sad to see Gitlab use Google. I though Gitlab are the good guys.

Last year we couldn't access some aws server at work because it was on US gov blacklist. An aws server that hosted maybe hundreds of other unrelated websites. Amazon is just as bad. But I guess they have better PR.

Post by xur17 » Sat, Aug 11, 2018, 7:45 PM UTC

grezql wrote: post #61

moltar wrote: post #6

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But the cost of Heroku on free, or nearly free tier, isn’t comparable to GKE. When I tried to launch a demo cluster it was basically launching numerous VMs just to support itself. I don’t know the monthly total, since I abandoned that idea pretty quick. But I imagine it’d be over $50/mo to run a tiny web app. My point is that every offering has its place. Heroku is great for getting going. Recently I’ve been experime…

GKE is free. You could run a micro vm for 5$ with kubernetes orchestring it.

Post by tootie » Sat, Aug 11, 2018, 7:49 PM UTC

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Exactly right. Much more attention needs to be brought to this subject. Imagining Google Cloud having as much market share as AWS is downright nightmarish. It would break large parts of the internet in those countries. I regularly travel to Iran, and can attest to a large number of random breakages (for example: the documentation of the date-fns library, because it loads data from Firebase). Google as an infrastructu…

Google is very pro-government, pro-censorship, pro-regulations, pro-military. It's better to just accept that it will never be a decent infrastructure provider because of that.

Post by hamandcheese » Sat, Aug 11, 2018, 7:58 PM UTC

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You can have it both ways by leveraging the free / hobby tier of Heroku with bringing your own data store. Nothing binds you to their resource providers. Just add an environment variable for your own database or Redis provider.

Then you lose some security though, because I think Heroku uses large IPs ranges [1]. There seems to be no way to allow database access from a private IP address, other than using expensive proxying addons. That means you probably have to open up your database to 0.0.0.0/0, which is not good at all. [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15512360/get-a-finite-li...