Calling the GCP source hosting a competitor with github is nonsense. No public access to these repos, for one, so they're completely unsuitable for general project hosting.
Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor
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Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor
#112Hasn't Google been moving code to GitHub itself?
Yes. Open source GCP projects are hosted either on github or googlesource.com, an unindexed place for git and codereview. (eg https://go.googlesource.com is where the go language is hosted).
And keep in mind, googlesource.com is not the same service as the one talked about in this article. Not even the same backend.
Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor
#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google code was project hosting, not just source hosting. This clickbait article is talking about a Google product that just does source hosting and is a part of the overall Google public cloud product strategy.
Google code did source hosting and was one of the primary features.
Source hosting is the only feature of GCP source hosting. It's literally just a way to get your code into the platform, nothing more.
Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor
#114This just seems to be a place to have the code that you run on Google Cloud Platform. Not exactly a competitor.
It's certainly Google Cloud branded, but it appears to have somewhat equivalent functionality to Github. For Google to launch something purely as a "Github competitor" would be silly because those using Github would quickly dismiss it; "we already have Github!" So Google are playing up the integration with the rest of Google Cloud, integrating with Github and Bitbucket, and offering additional features. You have to e…
No, GP was correct. It is intended as a way to get your source into the platform.
They're private repos to which only people in your projects have access.
Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor
#115I would've liked it better, if it also had auto-deploy to gce, and auto load-balancing, scaling, health-checks and service discovery.
The first one, sure, but all the others don't really seem like features of source hosting...?
Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor
#116...because google code worked out so well....
It did. When googlecode.com launched, it was an immediate market leader (keep in mind that it displaced the wretched sourceforge.com). When the new wave of source hosting (github, bitbucket, etc) made its way up, googlecode fell by the wayside and, after becoming a distinctly third-rate offering, was end-of-lifed.
Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor
#1171. Requires credit card number for free trial 2. No built in issue tracker or wiki (?)
That's because it's not actually project hosting, despite what the article may claim. It's a way to get your code onto the platform.
Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor
#118WTH does this mean? Are they saying it is not secure? https://cloud.google.com/tools/cloud-repositories/docs/ Note Cloud Source Repositories are intended to store only the source code for your application and not user or personal data. Do not store any Core App Engine End User Data (as defined in your License Agreement) in a Cloud Source Repository. To use a hosted Git repository with a Cloud Source Repository, you m…
It means only put code in source hosting, not user data. That is, follow best practices with your repository.
Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor
#119Every IaaS provider (Google, Amazon, Azure) has added a code hosting service or will do so in the future. Having your code hosted here will increase lock-in which is the best way for the IaaS provider to increase margins in the future. However, code hosting is not the essence of that GitHub, BitBucket and we at GitLab offer. The essence is code collaboration: mentioning people, doing a code review, activity streams,…
So one thing GitLab and others don't offer that Google can is tight integration with Deployment. Yeah we have all used the CI servers to do a form of Continous Delivery, but can google and amazon surpass those offerings by giving a tighter integration that a third part can't offer.
Right now our support for deployments is lacking. On the short term we'll add documentation how to use the Travis DPL gem to push to the IaaS providers.
Currently we're thinking about solving this problem, but in our opinion it is more than a simple deployment. You need a build pipeline.
We're thinking about adding a build pipeline configuration to .gitlab-ci.yml file. Right now we're looking into how to deal with dependencies that trigger a build and how to allow for multiple environments (staging, preprod, prod) to be deployed.
We think that solving the build pipeline properly (like GoCD and Concourse already have) in a simple to setup way will offer a lot of value. What do you think?
Re: Google has quietly launched a GitHub competitor
#120Github really owns the "organization aspect". For my personal projects, I'm fine with my own git server on a cheap vm, but for work I've been really happy with Github's issue tracker and org membership administration (with which we use OAUTH heavily for internal tools, several of which queue background computation). Github issues are much easier for tracking job submissions from analysts than integrating with the com…
Thanks for looking at GitLab and sorry to hear that avatars didn't work. There was an issue with avatars and using relative urls 7 months ago: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/369 This was fixed. But if you used relative urls please consider switching to a full hostname, it is a better experience. We recommend installing packages from our package server https://about.gitlab.com/downloads/ since templates on cloud providers might be out of date.