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Re: Show HN: Gaia – Build pipelines in any programming language

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Post by michelvocks »

black-tea wrote: post #57

How does this compare to Apache Airflow?

At the end Gaia is a task scheduler. You can compare it with AWS stepflow but also with Jenkins/CircleCI/TravisCI/Bamboo/Codeship and many more.

In my opinion Gaia is perfect for programmers which are "forced" to write automation tasks. It allows you to write automation tasks in your preferred programming language and makes it super easy for you to schedule them because Gaia comes with an automatic build feature (just provide the git url of your source code and Gaia does the rest). Additionally, Gaia is super fast, lightweight and open-source.

Re: Show HN: Gaia – Build pipelines in any programming language

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Post by Terretta »

peterkelly wrote: post #28

I really don't get it. From looking through the front page of the site, I see a bunch of code examples, but no explanation of how this differs from using Unix with a bunch of programs that each read from stdin and write to stdout. I'm sure there's actually something useful about this product, but the website really doesn't give any indication of what that useful thing is.

Like a line of pipes.

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Post by Dowwie »

michelvocks wrote: post #54
Dowwie wrote: post #19

Would it be correct to compare this with airflow?

Yes, except it's more lightweight and supports basically any programming language and not only python.

Providing a warning about the alpha edition in the README was a responsible thing to do. As Gaia is being actively promoted, I assume that the project has reached a certain level of maturity since the warning was written. Is this the case? In other words, does the warning still apply?

Re: Show HN: Gaia – Build pipelines in any programming language

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Post by y4mi »

michelvocks wrote: post #48
AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> but somehow missed that on our webpage. Every web page I've ever seen that looks like yours has had the same problem.

You are right. Often I'm so drown in what I'm doing that I lose the overview. I will do better in the future!

for what its worth: i'm the target audience (devops engineer) and understood it within moments of opening your landing page...

And after looking at the gif, i resolved myself to take a look in a few weeks for a personal project.

I'm however missing an excerpt about the developer/-s of this project.

Who is building it and why? how likely is development to be abandoned? is there paid support available or planned in the short term?

from what i could tell from the contributors its pretty much a solo endeavour from you, with some help from @skarlso in June/July. Are you planning to create a GmbH and sell this as a product, or is this just a personal project you're doing on the side?

Re: Show HN: Gaia – Build pipelines in any programming language

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Post by 0x8BADF00D »

michelvocks wrote: post #52
0x8BADF00D wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think they meant it is a replacement for existing CI/CD pipelines. As someone who deals with them every day, I like the simplicity of Gaia pipelines. But it seems it only supports running on the host that Gaia is installed on, whereas Jenkins and Gitlab CI will have the ability to run on multiple agents/build slaves. Edit: gRPC for events is dope too.

It can be used as an replacement for existing CI/CD tools but not exclusive. In my opinion Gaia can be used for every possible automation task. :-) We are already working on "agents/build slaves" (we call them worker): https://github.com/gaia-pipeline/gaia/issues/107

Very cool. Will definitely keep an eye on your progress.

Re: Show HN: Gaia – Build pipelines in any programming language

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Post by milani »

mtrpcic wrote: post #8

I agree with other commenters that it would be really helpful to understand exactly what you mean by "pipeline", and how they can help/improve a project or workflow. What problem does this solve, and how does it solve that problem better than other solutions? Also, very minor nitpick, but your programming language icons shouldn't be in tags. They appear to be clickable, but do nothing, which gives the appearance that…

I think it will be an alternative to Github's Actions, except it is not tied to git events.
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