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What's the best practice for high availability (self-hosted?) repositories? Is there a pass-through proxy for git? Or a leader-follower arrangement that is nic

What's the best practice for high availability (self-hosted?) repositories? Is there a pass-through proxy for git? Or a leader-follower arrangement that is nice, with a proxy server?

drudoo 6y ago
You could have a selfhosted gitea or gitlab instance that mirrors your GitHub repo. I use that as backup for some GitHub repos.
drstewart 6y ago
Best practice for me is to hope this happens on Friday afternoon and then take a half day... so all according to plan!
- justaguy88 6y ago
  I just want to be able to run self-hosted CI without it failing due to github
  - usui 6y ago
    I don't understand. Almost all of GitHub is a centralized service, while the self-hosted version is available to a select few enterprise partners. What's the roadblock on doing self-hosted CI without failing due to GitHub? It would be as simple as not using GitHub I think
smallnamespace 6y ago
If you're already using a cloud provider, they [1] all [2] have [3] private git repo services. You can set up a cronjob to sync them, or some have built-in config to do the mirroring [4]. I used Google's mirroring option before. It was fine, but we never had to use it (local copies were sufficient when GH was slow one day). [1] https://cloud.google.com/source-repositories https://cloud.google.com/source-repositories [2] https://aws.amazon.com/codecommit/ https://aws.amazon.com/codecommit/ [3] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/devops/repos/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/devops/repos/ [4] https://cloud.google.com/source-repositories/docs/mirroring-a-github-repository#create_a_mirrored_repository https://cloud.google.com/source-repositories/docs/mirroring-...
- serverlessbird 6y ago
  GitHub better use something more trusted. AWS outages is so well known :/
- serverlessbird 6y ago
  We don`t need to forget about small but better providers, like DNS made easy or it`s younger brother Constellix I also read one guy at webhosting talk. he said DNS simple have some new good features
jtdev 6y ago
Self host GitLab seems like a good approach here.
usui 6y ago
We use a cluster of self-hosted GitLab instances. Their update cadence has been on a roll and their development process is much more transparent compared to GitHub imo because it's a lot easier to see how they comment and discuss when they have "all-remote" baked into the core of their workflow Believe it or not, we have higher service availability hosting GitLab ourselves than GitHub

What's the best practice for high availability (self-hosted?) repositories? Is there a pass-through proxy for git? Or a leader-follower arrangement that is nice, with a proxy server?

drudoo 6y ago

You could have a selfhosted gitea or gitlab instance that mirrors your GitHub repo. I use that as backup for some GitHub repos.

drstewart 6y ago

Best practice for me is to hope this happens on Friday afternoon and then take a half day... so all according to plan!

justaguy88 6y ago
I just want to be able to run self-hosted CI without it failing due to github
- usui 6y ago
  I don't understand. Almost all of GitHub is a centralized service, while the self-hosted version is available to a select few enterprise partners. What's the roadblock on doing self-hosted CI without failing due to GitHub? It would be as simple as not using GitHub I think

smallnamespace 6y ago

If you're already using a cloud provider, they [1] all [2] have [3] private git repo services. You can set up a cronjob to sync them, or some have built-in config to do the mirroring [4]. I used Google's mirroring option before. It was fine, but we never had to use it (local copies were sufficient when GH was slow one day). [1] https://cloud.google.com/source-repositories https://cloud.google.com/source-repositories [2] https://aws.amazon.com/codecommit/ https://aws.amazon.com/codecommit/ [3] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/devops/repos/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/devops/repos/ [4] https://cloud.google.com/source-repositories/docs/mirroring-a-github-repository#create_a_mirrored_repository https://cloud.google.com/source-repositories/docs/mirroring-...

serverlessbird 6y ago
GitHub better use something more trusted. AWS outages is so well known :/
serverlessbird 6y ago
We don`t need to forget about small but better providers, like DNS made easy or it`s younger brother Constellix I also read one guy at webhosting talk. he said DNS simple have some new good features

jtdev 6y ago

Self host GitLab seems like a good approach here.

usui 6y ago

We use a cluster of self-hosted GitLab instances. Their update cadence has been on a roll and their development process is much more transparent compared to GitHub imo because it's a lot easier to see how they comment and discuss when they have "all-remote" baked into the core of their workflow Believe it or not, we have higher service availability hosting GitLab ourselves than GitHub