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Who 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.
Isn't one of the main selling points of Gitlab their built-in CI? Anyone using Gitlab use an external CI?
It appeals to me as someone who likes Circle's CI offering but wants to move away from Github. I tried using Gitlab's CI and was surprised at how limited it was. The Gitlab CI syntax was harder to follow, and my integration tests took 17m to run when they ran in almost 1/3 the time on Circle. A big part of the problem was that CircleCI lets me use an instance with 8 CPUs / 16 GB RAM with just a config file change[0],…
Really disappointing, as I've had to resort to using `az vm start` -> run -> `az vm deallocate` to use an on-demand powerful runner.
0: https://github.com/github/roadmap/issues/161
1: https://github.com/github/roadmap/issues/95 (note: added `ga` `ae` and removed `beta` `cloud` labels on Oct 13, 2020 ; the previous text: https://web.archive.org/web/20200731200411/https://github.co... )
Isn't one of the main selling points of Gitlab their built-in CI? Anyone using Gitlab use an external CI?
Some features seem to work incorrectly (ex. some combinations of branch filter rules + file changes rules). Or I misread the docs. For a free service it gives excellent value.
Circleci also good product. But having 1 less "thing" wins over most other considerations for me.
The main tradeoff (if the cost difference is insignificant) between this and a third party service like e.g. CircleCI appears to be between:
a) security (another service that can be comprised - with the implicit capability to instantly deploy something that owns your service)
and
b) latency/performance (CircleCI consistently starts builds within a few seconds)
How do you think about these things?
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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 bot…
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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.
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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.
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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.
I'm given badges, and other gamification crap.
Then again, when I publish my projects I tend to post them either here or on Reddit.
Maybe Microsoft, with some justice, wants a cut of the traffic?
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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 bot…
GitHub also promotes remote work. Most of the company is remote and will always be remote.