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"Host your own GitHub" using Gitlab and Dokku

23 points by technicalfault 12y ago

sytse 12y ago
GitLab B.V. CEO here, please let me know if there are any questions.
- ytch 12y ago
  I use Gitlab CE in my company, and it runs smoothly. Especially thanks for the painless upgrade script. I have one question about the UI, your default font color (light gray) and size is sometimes too hard to read, could you add more themes to customize them?
hazzardstrong 12y ago
Why even use Dokku? There's an off-the-shelf Gitlab image on DigitalOcean that works just great.
- deleted 12y ago
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- technicalfault 12y ago
  Not everyone trusts DigitalOcean for their hosting.
  - ceejayoz 12y ago
    There's certain to be one on AWS and likely other providers.
  - welly 12y ago
    Bitnami hosted on AWS? Or a Bitnami image hosted on your own server?
- hunvreus 12y ago
  I second this; while Dokku sounds like a great way to ship your own fleet of applications (Heroku style), I'm not sure I see any benefit in using it to deploy GitLab. There are already images working on the main cloud providers and it seems to me a bit overkill for something you'd update once every few months at best.
- FeloniousHam 12y ago
  Also, Gitblit[0] if you want to run on your own machine. Full installation instructions: Unzip, run. 0 http://gitblit.org/ http://gitblit.org/
arpstick 12y ago
Git does not require a singular centralized repository and embraces decentralization. I like how hosting your own repository is embraced by the overall design of git. "Host your own Github" should most definitely be the norm vs having a github/sourceforge/google code that everyone relies on being up. I wish that everyone running their own repositories while pulling directly from others was the defacto standard, that way no one can use the excuse "$repository / $service is down I'll submit it later".
- welly 12y ago
  While I agree with the sentiment, I think having a centralised repository, such as Github, creates a more social environment for sharing projects. If everyone had their own "Github", I can imagine the sharing and collaboration of open source projects would become more difficult to manage. Unless of course there was a service that, while didn't host Git repositories, did everything else that Github offers. Unless there is?
  - pjc50 12y ago
    .. unless the social machinery were also decentralised? (To a certain extent, this is true of the environment git was born to serve, Linux kernel development; the social environment was the linux-kernel mailing list)
dewarrn1 12y ago
I like the idea of hosting my own web-accessible repository, but am most familiar with Mercurial. Does GitLab support non-Git repositories, or is there an alternative that does?
- sytse 12y ago
  RhodeCode supports both Git and Mercurial.
WorldWideWayne 12y ago
Gitlab seems to be another one of those "half-open" source projects where an arbitrary set of features is only available in the "Enterprise" edition. - https://www.gitlab.com/gitlab-ee/ https://www.gitlab.com/gitlab-ee/
- sytse 12y ago
  GitLab B.V. CEO here. You are correct that we have a community and enterprise version of the software. The vast majority of features is available in the community version https://www.gitlab.com/gitlab-ce-features/ https://www.gitlab.com/gitlab-ce-features/ and many organizations run it with thousands of users.
  - WorldWideWayne 12y ago
    So, what is your policy for when a contributing developer sends you a pull request that adds an enterprise edition feature to your community edition? Ignore them?
retrack 12y ago
For those interested on an alternative Gitlab install, someone contributed this using Vagrant and Puppet: https://community.exoscale.ch/compute/tutorials/devtools/deploy-gitlab-on-ubuntu-1204-with-vagrant/ https://community.exoscale.ch/compute/tutorials/devtools/dep... Can be provisioned on any supported Vagrant destination, not only ours.

sytse 12y ago

GitLab B.V. CEO here, please let me know if there are any questions.

ytch 12y ago
I use Gitlab CE in my company, and it runs smoothly. Especially thanks for the painless upgrade script. I have one question about the UI, your default font color (light gray) and size is sometimes too hard to read, could you add more themes to customize them?

hazzardstrong 12y ago

Why even use Dokku? There's an off-the-shelf Gitlab image on DigitalOcean that works just great.

deleted 12y ago
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technicalfault 12y ago
Not everyone trusts DigitalOcean for their hosting.
- ceejayoz 12y ago
  There's certain to be one on AWS and likely other providers.
- welly 12y ago
  Bitnami hosted on AWS? Or a Bitnami image hosted on your own server?
hunvreus 12y ago
I second this; while Dokku sounds like a great way to ship your own fleet of applications (Heroku style), I'm not sure I see any benefit in using it to deploy GitLab. There are already images working on the main cloud providers and it seems to me a bit overkill for something you'd update once every few months at best.
FeloniousHam 12y ago
Also, Gitblit[0] if you want to run on your own machine. Full installation instructions: Unzip, run. 0 http://gitblit.org/ http://gitblit.org/

arpstick 12y ago

Git does not require a singular centralized repository and embraces decentralization. I like how hosting your own repository is embraced by the overall design of git. "Host your own Github" should most definitely be the norm vs having a github/sourceforge/google code that everyone relies on being up. I wish that everyone running their own repositories while pulling directly from others was the defacto standard, that way no one can use the excuse "$repository / $service is down I'll submit it later".

welly 12y ago
While I agree with the sentiment, I think having a centralised repository, such as Github, creates a more social environment for sharing projects. If everyone had their own "Github", I can imagine the sharing and collaboration of open source projects would become more difficult to manage. Unless of course there was a service that, while didn't host Git repositories, did everything else that Github offers. Unless there is?
- pjc50 12y ago
  .. unless the social machinery were also decentralised? (To a certain extent, this is true of the environment git was born to serve, Linux kernel development; the social environment was the linux-kernel mailing list)

dewarrn1 12y ago

I like the idea of hosting my own web-accessible repository, but am most familiar with Mercurial. Does GitLab support non-Git repositories, or is there an alternative that does?

sytse 12y ago
RhodeCode supports both Git and Mercurial.

WorldWideWayne 12y ago

Gitlab seems to be another one of those "half-open" source projects where an arbitrary set of features is only available in the "Enterprise" edition. - https://www.gitlab.com/gitlab-ee/ https://www.gitlab.com/gitlab-ee/

sytse 12y ago
GitLab B.V. CEO here. You are correct that we have a community and enterprise version of the software. The vast majority of features is available in the community version https://www.gitlab.com/gitlab-ce-features/ https://www.gitlab.com/gitlab-ce-features/ and many organizations run it with thousands of users.
- WorldWideWayne 12y ago
  So, what is your policy for when a contributing developer sends you a pull request that adds an enterprise edition feature to your community edition? Ignore them?

retrack 12y ago

For those interested on an alternative Gitlab install, someone contributed this using Vagrant and Puppet: https://community.exoscale.ch/compute/tutorials/devtools/deploy-gitlab-on-ubuntu-1204-with-vagrant/ https://community.exoscale.ch/compute/tutorials/devtools/dep... Can be provisioned on any supported Vagrant destination, not only ours.