Isn't one of the main selling points of Gitlab their built-in CI? Anyone using Gitlab use an external CI?
My last job used Gitlab as an external CI.
CircleCI Announces Support for Gitlab
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Re: CircleCI Announces Support for Gitlab
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#13I've been a CircleCI customer for 3 years. I'm interested in moving from Github to Gitlab, as I'm philosophically more aligned with Gitlab. I tried out CircleCI's Gitlab integration a few weeks ago during the public beta, and it felt like CircleCI was really phoning it in. The instructions led me down paths where the product would just break. It told me to connect CircleCI to Gitlab through OAuth, and then my first b…
What does it mean to be more philosophically aligned with one corporation vs another?
Re: CircleCI Announces Support for Gitlab
#14Who even uses external CIs anymore? GitHub and gitlab ones are great otherwise you have plenty you can deploy yourself.
We recently moved off of Circle CI to self-hosted GitHub Actions runners. It is ridiculously expensive: our solution is in the region of 27x cheaper.
Re: CircleCI Announces Support for Gitlab
#15I've been a CircleCI customer for 3 years. I'm interested in moving from Github to Gitlab, as I'm philosophically more aligned with Gitlab. I tried out CircleCI's Gitlab integration a few weeks ago during the public beta, and it felt like CircleCI was really phoning it in. The instructions led me down paths where the product would just break. It told me to connect CircleCI to Gitlab through OAuth, and then my first b…
What does it mean to be more philosophically aligned with one corporation vs another?
Maybe more philosophically aligned with the product, rather than the corporation behind it. Microsoft is slowly turning GitHub profiles into networking tools and the core SCM offering into a social media experience. GitLab is similar in some ways, but not quite as aggressive about it in my view.
Re: CircleCI Announces Support for Gitlab
#16I've been a CircleCI customer for 3 years. I'm interested in moving from Github to Gitlab, as I'm philosophically more aligned with Gitlab. I tried out CircleCI's Gitlab integration a few weeks ago during the public beta, and it felt like CircleCI was really phoning it in. The instructions led me down paths where the product would just break. It told me to connect CircleCI to Gitlab through OAuth, and then my first b…
What does it mean to be more philosophically aligned with one corporation vs another?
GitLab offers a free and open source self-hosted "community edition" and understands it to be in their strategic interests to continue with the open source offering. GitHub does not offer it and does not appear to believe that an open source self-hosted offering is in their best interests.
Supporting GitLab on those reasons alone, and choosing to pay for GitLab Enterprise Edition because they offer the Community Edition, is "philosophically aligned"
Re: CircleCI Announces Support for Gitlab
#17I've been a CircleCI customer for 3 years. I'm interested in moving from Github to Gitlab, as I'm philosophically more aligned with Gitlab. I tried out CircleCI's Gitlab integration a few weeks ago during the public beta, and it felt like CircleCI was really phoning it in. The instructions led me down paths where the product would just break. It told me to connect CircleCI to Gitlab through OAuth, and then my first b…
What does it mean to be more philosophically aligned with one corporation vs another?
That the buyer believes in the same thing the company "believes" in.
Eg: GitLab has an open-core product and GitHub is owned by (evil?) Microsoft.
Re: CircleCI Announces Support for Gitlab
#18I've been a CircleCI customer for 3 years. I'm interested in moving from Github to Gitlab, as I'm philosophically more aligned with Gitlab. I tried out CircleCI's Gitlab integration a few weeks ago during the public beta, and it felt like CircleCI was really phoning it in. The instructions led me down paths where the product would just break. It told me to connect CircleCI to Gitlab through OAuth, and then my first b…
What does it mean to be more philosophically aligned with one corporation vs another?
I like many things Gitlab does: open-sources most of their product, publishes their documentation openly, promotes remote work.
I strongly dislike some of the things that Github does: suck up open-source code and re-sell it through Copilot, stifle competition by offering free services that their non-MS-owned competitors can't afford to offer.
I don't think either one is purely good or purely evil. Overall, I like both companies better than average, but I'd rather support Gitlab.
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#19Isn't one of the main selling points of Gitlab their built-in CI? Anyone using Gitlab use an external CI?
Funny, I was gonna say the same thing. But I also remembered GitHub now has built-in CI (Actions). I wonder if Circle is struggling to maintain market share.
With all the built-in support for CI, I'm not sure how CircleCI is even operating anymore.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
They offer a whole kitchen sink at this point and honestly it's not great.
I really like GitLab's CI. Actions is probably winning the war, though.
GitLab CI can launch multiple pipelines on the same push/trigger (use separate files, like GH Actions, etc), but even after using it for I don't even know how many years I'm still struggling with setting it up in a nice way.