I mean there are tons of options in that space so if it’s an issue that is sorta on your business to have evaluated their dependency.
We work on an internal gitlab instance that has had 100 percent up time for like 2 years. It doesn’t even have to be gitlab, there’s gitea and like 10 other options.
I personally think that the industry has moved so far in the direction of cloud and saas that it’s lost a lot of valuable skills and made them dependent on too much externally.
I’m the only person at my (small startup) company who has the skills to maintain a GitLab instance. Been there, done that, never fucking again. I HATE maintenance. We’re probably going to migrate to some other platform since GitHub is intent on turning to shit.
In 2014 I set up GitLab for my then employer. It had to be something self hosted because of client requirements. I was apparently the only one in a company of about 200 that knew anything about Linux.
Wasn’t too bad, just keeping it up to date etc. When I left in 2016 I’d just upgraded the server to ubuntu 16.04. It’s probably still running that now. I know someone who is still there and they’ve said GitLab itself hasn’t been updated since I left.
I mean there are tons of options in that space so if it’s an issue that is sorta on your business to have evaluated their dependency.
We work on an internal gitlab instance that has had 100 percent up time for like 2 years. It doesn’t even have to be gitlab, there’s gitea and like 10 other options.
I personally think that the industry has moved so far in the direction of cloud and saas that it’s lost a lot of valuable skills and made them dependent on too much externally.
Github has self-hosted options as well
I’m the only person at my (small startup) company who has the skills to maintain a GitLab instance. Been there, done that, never fucking again. I HATE maintenance. We’re probably going to migrate to some other platform since GitHub is intent on turning to shit.
In 2014 I set up GitLab for my then employer. It had to be something self hosted because of client requirements. I was apparently the only one in a company of about 200 that knew anything about Linux.
Wasn’t too bad, just keeping it up to date etc. When I left in 2016 I’d just upgraded the server to ubuntu 16.04. It’s probably still running that now. I know someone who is still there and they’ve said GitLab itself hasn’t been updated since I left.
I set up and maintained a GitLab instance and GitLab CI runners for five years. It was fine. I still hated it. I loath maintaining infrastructure.
Sounds like you don’t really have the skill to maintain it.
24/7 maintenance is more a hassle issue than a skill issue.
There is something wrong with it, when it needs 24/7 maintenance.
Not maintaining 24/7.
Responding to any incident within x minutes at any time of the day or night, everyday of the year.
This would be against the law in my country, especially if a single person is meant to fulfill that role 😂
There’s a big difference between working 24h and being on call in case of emergency 24h.
The latter is doable, just not very pleasant
That is correct. But still you can’t cover 24 hours in my country. It is what it is.