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HN sure has changed. A few years ago there would be at least a dozen comments about installing Gitlab, including one major subthread started by someone from Git

HN sure has changed. A few years ago there would be at least a dozen comments about installing Gitlab, including one major subthread started by someone from Gitlab.

factorialboy 1y ago
Not just HN, Gitlab has perhaps changed as well.
lrvick 1y ago
We recommend Codeberg/Forgejo now since it is better in every way, and Gitlab went corpo.
- NewJazz 1y ago
  Gitlab was always for profit. And forgejo doesn't have feature parity at all with gitlab. Neither does github, for that matter. Just take a look at how to push container images from a cicd pipeline in gitlab vs. Forgejo.
  - fmbb 1y ago
    What’s the difference? Pushing images is a oneliner.
    - NewJazz 1y ago
      In gitlab, yes (well, two lines, login then push). In forgejo, there is no cicd token that gives you scoped access to the built in container registry. You must create a long lived token and add it as a secret to the repo you want to push from. See here: https://mteixeira.wordpress.com/2025/02/03/my-self-hosted-forgejo-runner-setup/#creating-a-registry-push-secret https://mteixeira.wordpress.com/2025/02/03/my-self-hosted-fo...
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- Elucalidavah 1y ago
  Are those any better than self-hosted gitlab, or do you only mean central-hosted usage?
  - NewJazz 1y ago
    Codeberg is central hosted so I think they mean in general.
- pfcd 1y ago
  > We recommend Codeberg/Forgejo now since it is better in every way... Lol. > ...and Gitlab went corpo. How else will they sustain/maintain such a product and compete with the likes of GitHub? With donations? Good luck.
Tostino 1y ago
I wouldn't touch Gitlab at this point. I didn't change. They did.
- dewey 1y ago
  Which is probably good, as otherwise they would be dead. Building products for self-hosting HN users isn't really a big money maker.
rngecounty 1y ago
Having tried gitlab, it's a very poor product almost unmaintainable as a self hosted option. Reminds me of Eclipse IDE - crammed with every other unnecessary feature/plugin and the basic features are either very slow or buggy. At this point Gitlab is just there because being even a small X% of a huge million/billion dollar market is good enough as a company even if the product is almost unusable.
KronisLV 1y ago
I've used self-hosted GitLab a bunch at work, it's pretty good there still. In my opinion GitLab CI is also a solid offering, especially for the folks coming from something like Jenkins, doubly so when combined with Docker executors and mostly working with containers. I used to run a GitLab instance for my own needs, however keeping up with the updates (especially across major versions) proved to be a bit too much and it was quite resource hungry. My personal stack right now is Gitea + Drone CI + Nexus, though I might move over to Woodpecker CI in the future and also maybe look for alternatives to Nexus (it's also quite heavyweight and annoying to admin).

HN sure has changed. A few years ago there would be at least a dozen comments about installing Gitlab, including one major subthread started by someone from Gitlab.

factorialboy 1y ago

Not just HN, Gitlab has perhaps changed as well.

lrvick 1y ago

We recommend Codeberg/Forgejo now since it is better in every way, and Gitlab went corpo.

NewJazz 1y ago
Gitlab was always for profit. And forgejo doesn't have feature parity at all with gitlab. Neither does github, for that matter. Just take a look at how to push container images from a cicd pipeline in gitlab vs. Forgejo.
- fmbb 1y ago
  What’s the difference? Pushing images is a oneliner.
  - NewJazz 1y ago
    In gitlab, yes (well, two lines, login then push). In forgejo, there is no cicd token that gives you scoped access to the built in container registry. You must create a long lived token and add it as a secret to the repo you want to push from. See here: https://mteixeira.wordpress.com/2025/02/03/my-self-hosted-forgejo-runner-setup/#creating-a-registry-push-secret https://mteixeira.wordpress.com/2025/02/03/my-self-hosted-fo...
- deleted 1y ago
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Elucalidavah 1y ago
Are those any better than self-hosted gitlab, or do you only mean central-hosted usage?
- NewJazz 1y ago
  Codeberg is central hosted so I think they mean in general.
pfcd 1y ago
> We recommend Codeberg/Forgejo now since it is better in every way... Lol. > ...and Gitlab went corpo. How else will they sustain/maintain such a product and compete with the likes of GitHub? With donations? Good luck.

Tostino 1y ago

I wouldn't touch Gitlab at this point. I didn't change. They did.

dewey 1y ago
Which is probably good, as otherwise they would be dead. Building products for self-hosting HN users isn't really a big money maker.

rngecounty 1y ago

Having tried gitlab, it's a very poor product almost unmaintainable as a self hosted option. Reminds me of Eclipse IDE - crammed with every other unnecessary feature/plugin and the basic features are either very slow or buggy. At this point Gitlab is just there because being even a small X% of a huge million/billion dollar market is good enough as a company even if the product is almost unusable.

KronisLV 1y ago

I've used self-hosted GitLab a bunch at work, it's pretty good there still. In my opinion GitLab CI is also a solid offering, especially for the folks coming from something like Jenkins, doubly so when combined with Docker executors and mostly working with containers. I used to run a GitLab instance for my own needs, however keeping up with the updates (especially across major versions) proved to be a bit too much and it was quite resource hungry. My personal stack right now is Gitea + Drone CI + Nexus, though I might move over to Woodpecker CI in the future and also maybe look for alternatives to Nexus (it's also quite heavyweight and annoying to admin).