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Exactly, we want our users to be able to scale with us using open source technologies. Some are at 20k+ users so they are close to needing something like Ceph t

• Rapzid 10y ago
  From looking at the comments here, thinking about what I would do/want, and what others have done to scale git GitLab is in the minority of wanting to solve this issue with a Ceph cluster. > Some are at 20k+ users so they are close to needing something like Ceph Or they will scale it themselves ala Alibaba: http://www.slideshare.net/MinqiPan/how-we-scaled-git-lab-for-a-30k-employee-company http://www.slideshare.net/MinqiPan/how-we-scaled-git-lab-for... . They appear to have written a libgit2 backend for their object store(among other things). I don't see a good reason why solutions using different storage backends could not make it into the OSS project. Many companies run their own Swift cluster, which is OSS. If you're using CephFS and everyone else wants to be using other Cloud storage solutions, that would actually put you at a disconnect with your users and leave room for a competitor with the tools and experience to scale out on Cloud storage to come in offering support. I would at least consider all the opinions in this thread and maybe reach out to that Minqi Pan fellow from Alibaba with questions.. I actually really like GitLab and wish we could be using it at my company; this is why I'm spending so much effort on this topic(and scaling git is interesting). Hopefully my opinions are not out of place.
  • sytse 10y ago
    Thanks, we're in touch with Minqi Pan I think we all agree the Ceph solution is great if we can make it work.