[zippie]

I find this solution compared to the gitlab Auto Devops, frankly, underwhelming.

We recently deployed AD in our self hosted gitlab instance and combined the SAST container checks with our production policies, it’s been rock solid.

Add to this the fact we are able to manage all the production policies via the pipeline API’s and AD templates, the whole Jenkinsfiles deal seems far less scalable and difficult.

I have no affiliation with gitlab.

[jstrachan]

Sorry to hear you're underwhelmed! Did you check out the GitOps features for versioning all changes to all Environments in git with human approval? http://jenkins-x.io/about/features/#promotion

Or the automated feedback on releases to all your issues as they move through Environments: http://jenkins-x.io/about/features/#feedback

Or the automatic publishing of Helm charts to the bundled Monocular for all versions of your apps for your colleagues to easily be able to run via helm?

Or that it works great with GitHub, GitHub Enterprise & JIRA and has awesome integration with Skaffold?

Or easy setup a kubernetes cluster with Jenkins X on any public cloud in one command: http://jenkins-x.io/getting-started/create-cluster/

[sytse]

Thanks for using GitLab. If people want to see some raw footage of me using Auto DevOps with Spring after linking it to a Kubernetes cluster please see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D5TwMo-IIw We're considering renaming Auto DevOps to GitOps. What do people think?

[kronin]

Please don't.

I am using gitlab, though we quickly grew beyond auto devops.

Your definition of auto devops is different than gitops. Gitops is the practice of using commits and pull requests to execute change and do releases. Weave uses it to mean git as the source of truth. https://www.weave.works/blog/gitops-operations-by-pull-reque... Kelsey Hightower talked about it and and has demoed the workflow of using pull requests to initiate promotion and deployments.

Gitlab's auto devops does not seem to tackle promotion via environment repos, so in my understanding does not fit gitops and would be confusing to call it such.

Edit: Kelsey Hightower's kubeconf talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07jq-5VbBVQ

And a better writeup on weave's site -https://www.weave.works/blog/gitops-high-velocity-cicd-for-k...

[sytse]

Thanks for the feedback! When you say promotion happens via environment repos do you mean via feature branches or really via repos?

[kronin]

Repos. Watch the Kelsey Hightower keynote video I added to my post.

Don't get me wrong, I think auto devops is a good thing, but it's most certainly not gitops.

[sytse]

Thanks, I'll certainly watch that video and documented that it is different in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/43487#note_70...

[willempienaar]

I agree.

To add to that, GitOps as defined by Weaveworks and Kelsey Hightower is a technology agnostic approach.