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CircleCI Announces Support for Gitlab

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Re: CircleCI Announces Support for Gitlab

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Post by superb-owl »

bdcravens wrote: post #3

Isn'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.

Re: CircleCI Announces Support for Gitlab

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Post by mtlynch »

bdcravens wrote: post #3

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], whereas every Gitlab instance is 1 CPU / 3.75 GB RAM unless you host your own runners.[1] But if I'm paying a company to manage CI, I don't want to provision my own hardware infrastructure

[0] https://circleci.com/docs/configuration-reference#docker-exe...

[1] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/runners/saas/linux_saas_runner...

Re: CircleCI Announces Support for Gitlab

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Post by mtlynch »

I'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 build immediately died asking for a personal access token.[0] I generated a PAT instead, and then CircleCI failed my build because it was provisioning an empty SSH private key.[1]

They had a channel for reporting bugs with the integration, but it doesn't create a real support ticket. Their feedback channel was just their public Canny feature request board. I submitted my feedback anyway, and they didn't respond for over two weeks, at which point the response was basically just, "Oh, we fixed a lot of bugs, so maybe we fixed yours. Can you delete everything and try again?"

[0] https://twitter.com/deliberatecoder/status/15430630495982714...

[1] https://circleci.canny.io/gitlab-vcs-experience-feedback/p/n...

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