One time I wanted to test some specific flows with Gitlab, so I had the stupid idea to try to run my own self hosted instance on a Digital Ocean pod. It was no

One time I wanted to test some specific flows with Gitlab, so I had the stupid idea to try to run my own self hosted instance on a Digital Ocean pod. It was not really complicated to install but the resources that it is using are insane. First, it would not even start if you don't have a dozen of Gb of ram available. Also, even if completely empty, the thing would take 30 mins to warm up doing I don't know what before being available for initial setup. In honest opinion, trying so much to copy GitHub, Gitlab became a heavy bloated software stack.