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I love Gitlab because I love open source and competition but Gitlab either on-prem or gitlab.com has been having growing pains ever since I started using it aro

I love Gitlab because I love open source and competition but Gitlab either on-prem or gitlab.com has been having growing pains ever since I started using it around 2015. And it seems to be related to scaling because it's always iffy problems like higher error rates or jobs not executing. Either way, I love our on-prem Gitlab. It's free and it hosts over 200 projects, Gitops and the whole shebang. I'm just now beginning to use Kubernetes from it. They will sort this out eventually.

hhh 6y ago
I have nothing but praise for our enterprise Gitlab implementation. It hosts 2000+ projects and for many teams is mission critical. Our team that maintains it is wonderful and I've only seen it down without planning once for about an hour. Using Gitlab at work actually swayed me to move to it for my personal projects as well.
irateswami 6y ago
My company does on-prem gitlab as well, and it's pretty fantastic. We're in the beginning stages of migrating off of Azure DevOps but so far we're wowed by the features.
kevinob11 6y ago
+1 for on-prem. I tried gitlab.com first but it was very slow (this was years ago, YMMV) but on-prem has been rock-solid and fast for us hosting ~100 projects. One thing I've been surprised by is how easy updates have been, I don't think we've ever had to even reconfigure anything, including runners. I know it seems like that is how it should work, but I've had a lot of opposite experiences with the open source tier of tools.