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Does your company really have enough people with the knowledge of how to securely run Jira/CI/GitHub/etc. tools, with minimal downtime, and with proper backups?

• u801e 6y ago
  > Does your company really have enough people with the knowledge of how to securely run Jira/CI/GitHub/etc. tools, with minimal downtime, and with proper backups? Years ago, many companies ran similar services in house and having downtime wasn't a common scenario.
• Slartie 6y ago
  It actually has been running Jira on premise with zero unannounced downtime for ten years. So...yes, I think that's not the problem to simply continue doing what we did for the last decade. CI and GitLab infrastructure are the same story: run on premise on our own hardware for a decade, with only very minor downtime. It has also evolved from simple isolated Jenkins instances with manually configured build jobs to a shared build/CI cluster using containerization and a lot of automation for build job management. And it's not that we have an abundance of administrative people. A team of three (sometimes being temporarily buffed up with a few more if large infrastructural tasks are planned) for about 200 developers in total. I have a different suspicion: a lot of companies out there have simply forgotten that they are perfectly able to run such services for themselves. Having people telling them all the time that they wouldn't ever be able to do that anyway (with a lot of them having their personal agenda, for example being employed by a cloud service provider) doesn't make things better in that regard.