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Re: Gitlab was down

#31
Hmmm, just today I wanted to install a new virtual machine with the latest Gitlab release to check if it makes sense to run that inhouse... does anybod know if there is a VM, a vagrant machine, an ISO or a repository online that still can be used? Thanks!

Or does exist a mirror on github.com? ;)

Re: Gitlab was down

#32
post #8

We use GitLab at work and I use it for personal projects as well, it has been very slow for several days now and they had downtime yesterday as well. I don't mind the general sluggishness of the system that much (as I love the platform in general) but when you can't get your work (nor hobbies) done because of tools breaking, it gets really annoying really fast.

> when you can't get your work (...) done because of tools breaking, it gets really annoying really fast

I always assumed that the publicly hosted version of gitlab is basically a giant demo version of the enterprise edition you buy to host it yourself. Hell, you can even host the community edition for free.

If your work relies on it, why rely on a free online product?

EDIT: TIL gitlab.com also has a paid options. I stand corrected.

We have a hosted Gitlab at 2 of my clients. Both are up.

Re: Gitlab was down

#33
There has been a theme of instability with Gitlab.com over the last week or two. I'm not sure if it's growth related (they've seen a steady increase of users/traffic) and they've reached a scaling peak. OR if it's technically related - they've been doing a number of different infrastructure changes over the last few weeks which make a material difference to the main layers of the service.

For me the real test here is how they respond to this. As a paying customer I want to understand the issue, the efforts to prevent this in future and how they communicate this.

Re: Gitlab was down

#34
Updated just now...bad firewall change.

"[Identified] We have identified firewall misconfiguration was applied that is preventing applications from connecting to the database."

Re: Gitlab was down

#35

Hmmm, just today I wanted to install a new virtual machine with the latest Gitlab release to check if it makes sense to run that inhouse... does anybod know if there is a VM, a vagrant machine, an ISO or a repository online that still can be used? Thanks! Or does exist a mirror on github.com? ;)

Get the docker image from dockerhub

Re: Gitlab was down

#36
post #4

> Website, API, Git (ssh and https), Pages, Registry, CI/CD, Background Processing, Support Services, packages.gitlab.com, customers.gitlab.com, version.gitlab.com, forum.gitlab.com How come all of them are down all at once.

Bad firewall change...they just updated the page.

Re: Gitlab was down

#37

Hmmm, just today I wanted to install a new virtual machine with the latest Gitlab release to check if it makes sense to run that inhouse... does anybod know if there is a VM, a vagrant machine, an ISO or a repository online that still can be used? Thanks! Or does exist a mirror on github.com? ;)

> Hmmm, just today I wanted to install a new virtual machine

> with the latest Gitlab release

Just wait till later/tomorrow. Setting up your own instance is relatively easy. Still, you can get most of the way without their repos...

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-set-up-a-gitlab-...

> Or does exist a mirror on github.com? ;)

It seems so: https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq

Re: Gitlab was down

#38

Hmmm, just today I wanted to install a new virtual machine with the latest Gitlab release to check if it makes sense to run that inhouse... does anybod know if there is a VM, a vagrant machine, an ISO or a repository online that still can be used? Thanks! Or does exist a mirror on github.com? ;)

If you just want to try it out, the easiest is often Gitlab Development Kit.

    gem install gitlab-development-kit
    gdk init
    cd gitlab-development-kit
    gdk run
I doubt it will work today though; it's probably pulling everything from Gitlab.

For Docker, check out https://hub.docker.com/r/gitlab/gitlab-ce I haven't tried it out for myself but it seems popular :)

Re: Gitlab was down

#39
> [Identified] We have identified firewall misconfiguration

> was applied that is preventing applications from connecting

> to the database. We've rolling back that change and expect

> to be operational again shortly.

Heh, happens to the best of us! Seems to be coming back online now.

Re: Gitlab was down

#40
post #32
post #8

We use GitLab at work and I use it for personal projects as well, it has been very slow for several days now and they had downtime yesterday as well. I don't mind the general sluggishness of the system that much (as I love the platform in general) but when you can't get your work (nor hobbies) done because of tools breaking, it gets really annoying really fast.

> when you can't get your work (...) done because of tools breaking, it gets really annoying really fast I always assumed that the publicly hosted version of gitlab is basically a giant demo version of the enterprise edition you buy to host it yourself. Hell, you can even host the community edition for free. If your work relies on it, why rely on a free online product? EDIT: TIL gitlab.com also has a paid options. I…

The online version has non-free plans as well, so I don't see your point of not relying on it.
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