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Re: GitLab is now running on GCP

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Post by uvatbc »

CryoLogic wrote: post #87
joshuamorton wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I took a cursory look through those, and every one I looked at appeared to be claiming that Sandy Hook/Las Vegas/Anothy Bourdain's suicide/some other thing was fake and a conspiracy. Can you explain how "Sandy hook was faked and no children were killed" is a political view? Or how "Anthony Bourdain's suicide was faked for monetary gain" is somehow a political opinion?

I never said I agreed with any of the channels or their content if you read my comment closely. I only against censoring freedom of speech and creating ideological echo Chambers.

Unless you want to claim that Google is now a tool of the Government (A), then your point of censorship and free speech are moot.

(A): This extraordinary claim would require extraordinary evidence.

Re: GitLab is now running on GCP

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Post by manigandham »

andrewl-hn wrote: post #10

Has anybody tried GKE and EKS from Amazon? What's your opinion on the later?

EKS is basically half-managed. They originally had a better setup for master nodes but GKE has caught up with free masters and regional deployments (1 per zone) for the same high-availability.

EKS masters will still run most of the cluster services to free up your worker nodes, but that's because they have very poor control over everything other than the masters. And since that's the most important part of the cluster, you will run into a lot of manual work and broken systems getting the cluster up and running on EKS.

GKE is about 10x smoother and everything works as expected, and they are rapidly improving things with much better storage and networking options coming soon. At that point the experience will become 100x better than EKS.

Re: GitLab is now running on GCP

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Post by eeeeeeeeeeeee »

smnrchrds wrote: post #12

I wish they hadn't done this. Google has a unique and strict interpretation of US sanctions on countries like Iran and Cuba, much more strict than that of Microsoft or Amazon. If your site is hosted on GCP, Google blocks access to it from any sanctioned countries.

I agree this probably hurts if you're in those countries or doing business with entities in those countries, but what business would stop an architecture overall that they believe is the right move, only because of the small Iranian/Cuban market?

Either way, the best way to fix this is to lobby Congress.

Re: GitLab is now running on GCP

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Post by lawl »

lbotos wrote: post #111
JetSpiegel wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No doubt, but the Microsoft acquisition must have pushed the priority of the move through the roof.

Negative. I work at GitLab. I can assure you that GitHub getting acquired did not have any bearing on the speed at which we made this migration happen. It's been in the works for a long time, and in none of the meetings I've attended has anyone said "Github now is owned by Microsoft, we need to get on GCP FASTER."

Someone should have then. On the other hand, you only talk about the speed of the migration, could also be an overly-specific denial and you've known about a potential acquisition before.

Call me a tinfoil nutjob, I still don't buy it and would move away from azure too in that situation.

Re: GitLab is now running on GCP

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Post by lawl »

manigandham wrote: post #120
lawl wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Real backstory: https://news.microsoft.com/2018/06/04/microsoft-to-acquire-g...

Github being owned by Microsoft has 0 relevance for any competent technical organization.

Saying anyone who cares about Github now being owned by Microsoft is incompetent is borderline ad-hominem.

We have seen embrace-extend-extinguish from MS before. Even if you believe they've changed there's no reason to label everyone else as incompetent.

Re: GitLab is now running on GCP

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Post by sytse »

eeeeeeeeeeeee wrote: post #125

Interesting to see this now and then go back and read their post from 2016 where they stated they knew it was "time to move away from the cloud." https://about.gitlab.com/2016/11/10/why-choose-bare-metal/

See https://about.gitlab.com/2017/03/02/why-we-are-not-leaving-t... for why we're still in the cloud.

Re: GitLab is now running on GCP

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Post by lawl »

craftyguy wrote: post #21
txcwpalpha wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why does this dumb story keep getting posted on every GitLab thread? GitLab started the move to GCP way, way before the acquisition from MS happened. They are not related.

> Why does this dumb story keep getting posted on every GitLab thread? I suspect it's because some people really like microsoft and are personally offended that a customer left.

>I suspect it's because some people really like microsoft and are personally offended that a customer left.

I would do the same thing. Not sure what you're implying. Now get back to hobby and improve pmos (pls).

Re: GitLab is now running on GCP

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Post by asah »

anothergoogler wrote: post #35
krn wrote: post #34

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OVH is probably the only major non-US based public cloud provider[1]. It also happens to be the host of Wikileaks. [1] https://www.ovh.com/ca/en/public-cloud/instances/

Hetzner would like a word with you. Not only that, but there are tons of low-profile "cloud" hosting providers who only market to a single nation or a small region. Their websites are usually not in English. A couple years ago I did some digging on prominent South Korean websites, and they were all hosted by national providers.

Can confirm Hetzner, I've been using hetzner for months, in addition to AWS and GCP.

Re: GitLab is now running on GCP

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Post by manigandham »

lawl wrote: post #126
manigandham wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Github being owned by Microsoft has 0 relevance for any competent technical organization.

Saying anyone who cares about Github now being owned by Microsoft is incompetent is borderline ad-hominem. We have seen embrace-extend-extinguish from MS before. Even if you believe they've changed there's no reason to label everyone else as incompetent.

That's not what I'm saying. The news has 0 relevance to teams, whether those teams care or not.

Github was a for-profit organization losing massive amounts of money with stalled development and weak features compared to competitors. It's only major asset was the large community. It now has a many more resources to stay around long-term and finally start building better products. Your data is also 1-click away from being exported and git is already distributed meaning every developer has a complete clone.

What possible issue is there to worry about?

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