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This is getting really problematic. It stops our whole team every time. Anybody has experience with Gitlab and Gitlab CI? How's the flow compared to Github, es

by cmer 13y ago

This is getting really problematic. It stops our whole team every time. Anybody has experience with Gitlab and Gitlab CI? How's the flow compared to Github, especially for pull requests, commenting and collaboration?

jbrooksuk 13y ago
I used GitLab by myself, it works really well and since V5 is super easy to get installed.
- nonchalance 13y ago
  Is there a VM image like Github enterprise?
  - druiid 13y ago
    There is at least one Vagrant+puppet installer I know of but, well, uhhh... it's on Github and won't help you much at this point :P https://github.com/sbadia/puppet-gitlab https://github.com/sbadia/puppet-gitlab
    - kxu 13y ago
      Yes, kind of deadlock.. Nice try anyway :)
  - manacit 13y ago
    BitNami keeps up-to-date Gitlab VMs and Installers: http://bitnami.com/stack/gitlab http://bitnami.com/stack/gitlab
taylorbuley 13y ago
Started timing out for us mid-deploy. Not a good situation.
druiid 13y ago
I've been very happy with Gitlab. The CI server seems a bit simplistic at this point and I haven't tried it, but I'm slowly moving all of the stuff I need to have more consistent access to, from Github.
- sytse 13y ago
  GitLab co-founder here. Thanks for commenting druiid. GitLab CI 3.1 will have very nice integration with GitLab 6.0. It will still be simple, but should cover most cases.
twerquie 13y ago
This happens to our team too. Does anyone else find it ironic that Git is a distributed version control system, yet we rushed to centralize it and base our entire workflow around GitHub?
- camus 13y ago
  Github is just a node. IF Github dies , people still have the full repos on their computers.That's not always the case with SVN... And most people are too lazy/dont have resources to set up a git server anyway.
  - __alexs 13y ago
    Most teams that work on GitHub have none of their own workflow or infrastructure for sharing code when GH goes down. You can probably blame those teams for that more than GitHub but people do seem to have bought into the idea that we can just jam everything up to GitHub and get it back later.
    - briandear 13y ago
      Of course from a risk-management perspective, the likelihood of a long term outage is statistically low enough to not justify the expenditure for setting up and maintaining alternative systems (other than simply having repos backed up.) It's the anti-TSA approach. The TSA spends billions and hassles everyone despite the relative rareness of air-travel attacks. But, the severity of a potential attack weighed against the expenditure has led politicians to believe that the cost is worth it. The Heroku/AWS outages a few years back had far more of an impact, yet Heroku still (to my knowledge) relies exclusively on AWS-East, because presumably the risk-profile doesn't exceed the threshold to justify the expenditures required to mitigate the risk. I just wish the attackers would be considerate enough to share the schedule for these attacks ahead of time, so I can plan a longer lunch. The rudeness of these attackers is unparalleled. I'm inclined to write them a strongly worded letter suggesting same.
  - regularfry 13y ago
    If your workflow involves tickets on github, you're going to have a bad time.
gwenbell 13y ago
I use Gitboria, accessible through CJDNS.
fomb 13y ago
Git's distributed right?
cheeseprocedure 13y ago
Have you tried Jenkins as a CI server? While the core Gitlab product is quite nice, the feedback I've heard on the CI component is that it becomes problematic once builds become non-trivial (though to be fair, I've heard this mostly from Jenkins folks).
- BrainInAJar 13y ago
  We just built our own build scripts (in make(1) like god intended) and wrap jenkins around that. Pretty hard to go wrong with tech that's been tested for the last 35 years
  - kenster07 13y ago
    With due respect, God probably had little to do with make.
    - acjohnson55 13y ago
      Who made the make maker?
      - jbrooksuk 13y ago
        Science.
barkingcat 13y ago
I always wonder if people prefer to use a centralised model that github seems to promote, or if people are not tooled up to take advantage of the distributed nature of git? How technically hard is it to have an internal roundrobin git system that's synced up with the github repos needed, and then redirect to the internal git servers as needed when github goes down? I'm just wondering, no snark. Github will go down by the nature of it being a web service. Web services aren't 100% by nature.
y0ghur7_xxx 13y ago
We are using Gitlab for about half a year with Jenkins, and we could not be happier. We are about 50 devs working with it every day. It has some quirks (for example AD integration) but it has served us well, and we would not want anything else.
- sytse 13y ago
  GitLab co-founder here, thanks for the comment y0ghur7_xxx. Please let me know if you have any idea's to improve Active Directory Lightweight Directory Service support.
leishulang 13y ago
time to learn peer to peer git pull for your team
danielsju6 13y ago
man git daemon
- whatthesmack 13y ago
  man git-daemon #ftfy
WestCoastJustin 13y ago
Although, I don't have experience with Gitlab, I did create a screencast about git/gitolite, which can do 90% of what you want @ http://sysadmincasts.com/episodes/11-internal-git-server-with-gitolite http://sysadmincasts.com/episodes/11-internal-git-server-wit... Then look at something like Gitweb [1], cgit [2], or Gerrit [3] to front the repo. I personally use git, gitolite, and gitweb. [1] https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Gitweb https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Gitweb [2] http://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/ http://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/ [3] http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/ http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/

by cmer 13y ago

jbrooksuk 13y ago

I used GitLab by myself, it works really well and since V5 is super easy to get installed.

nonchalance 13y ago
Is there a VM image like Github enterprise?
- druiid 13y ago
  There is at least one Vagrant+puppet installer I know of but, well, uhhh... it's on Github and won't help you much at this point :P https://github.com/sbadia/puppet-gitlab https://github.com/sbadia/puppet-gitlab
  - kxu 13y ago
    Yes, kind of deadlock.. Nice try anyway :)
- manacit 13y ago
  BitNami keeps up-to-date Gitlab VMs and Installers: http://bitnami.com/stack/gitlab http://bitnami.com/stack/gitlab

taylorbuley 13y ago

Started timing out for us mid-deploy. Not a good situation.

druiid 13y ago

I've been very happy with Gitlab. The CI server seems a bit simplistic at this point and I haven't tried it, but I'm slowly moving all of the stuff I need to have more consistent access to, from Github.

sytse 13y ago
GitLab co-founder here. Thanks for commenting druiid. GitLab CI 3.1 will have very nice integration with GitLab 6.0. It will still be simple, but should cover most cases.

twerquie 13y ago

This happens to our team too. Does anyone else find it ironic that Git is a distributed version control system, yet we rushed to centralize it and base our entire workflow around GitHub?

camus 13y ago
Github is just a node. IF Github dies , people still have the full repos on their computers.That's not always the case with SVN... And most people are too lazy/dont have resources to set up a git server anyway.
- __alexs 13y ago
  Most teams that work on GitHub have none of their own workflow or infrastructure for sharing code when GH goes down. You can probably blame those teams for that more than GitHub but people do seem to have bought into the idea that we can just jam everything up to GitHub and get it back later.
  - briandear 13y ago
    Of course from a risk-management perspective, the likelihood of a long term outage is statistically low enough to not justify the expenditure for setting up and maintaining alternative systems (other than simply having repos backed up.) It's the anti-TSA approach. The TSA spends billions and hassles everyone despite the relative rareness of air-travel attacks. But, the severity of a potential attack weighed against the expenditure has led politicians to believe that the cost is worth it. The Heroku/AWS outages a few years back had far more of an impact, yet Heroku still (to my knowledge) relies exclusively on AWS-East, because presumably the risk-profile doesn't exceed the threshold to justify the expenditures required to mitigate the risk. I just wish the attackers would be considerate enough to share the schedule for these attacks ahead of time, so I can plan a longer lunch. The rudeness of these attackers is unparalleled. I'm inclined to write them a strongly worded letter suggesting same.
- regularfry 13y ago
  If your workflow involves tickets on github, you're going to have a bad time.

gwenbell 13y ago

I use Gitboria, accessible through CJDNS.

fomb 13y ago

Git's distributed right?

cheeseprocedure 13y ago

Have you tried Jenkins as a CI server? While the core Gitlab product is quite nice, the feedback I've heard on the CI component is that it becomes problematic once builds become non-trivial (though to be fair, I've heard this mostly from Jenkins folks).

BrainInAJar 13y ago
We just built our own build scripts (in make(1) like god intended) and wrap jenkins around that. Pretty hard to go wrong with tech that's been tested for the last 35 years
- kenster07 13y ago
  With due respect, God probably had little to do with make.
  - acjohnson55 13y ago
    Who made the make maker?
    - jbrooksuk 13y ago
      Science.

barkingcat 13y ago

I always wonder if people prefer to use a centralised model that github seems to promote, or if people are not tooled up to take advantage of the distributed nature of git? How technically hard is it to have an internal roundrobin git system that's synced up with the github repos needed, and then redirect to the internal git servers as needed when github goes down? I'm just wondering, no snark. Github will go down by the nature of it being a web service. Web services aren't 100% by nature.

y0ghur7_xxx 13y ago

We are using Gitlab for about half a year with Jenkins, and we could not be happier. We are about 50 devs working with it every day. It has some quirks (for example AD integration) but it has served us well, and we would not want anything else.

sytse 13y ago
GitLab co-founder here, thanks for the comment y0ghur7_xxx. Please let me know if you have any idea's to improve Active Directory Lightweight Directory Service support.

leishulang 13y ago

time to learn peer to peer git pull for your team

danielsju6 13y ago

man git daemon

whatthesmack 13y ago
man git-daemon #ftfy

WestCoastJustin 13y ago

Although, I don't have experience with Gitlab, I did create a screencast about git/gitolite, which can do 90% of what you want @ http://sysadmincasts.com/episodes/11-internal-git-server-with-gitolite http://sysadmincasts.com/episodes/11-internal-git-server-wit... Then look at something like Gitweb [1], cgit [2], or Gerrit [3] to front the repo. I personally use git, gitolite, and gitweb. [1] https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Gitweb https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Gitweb [2] http://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/ http://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/ [3] http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/ http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/