[citruspi]

> When it comes to on-prem or self-hosted software I actually prefer running a monolithic application that worst-case I can just bounce or reboot the server.

So why not just skip the helm chart and install the omnibus package on a dedicated server? If you want you can even disable stuff like the omnibus Postgres/Redis/etc and manage those yourself elsewhere.

That's what I do - run the omnibus package sans fancy helm chart - and it works out pretty well. Granted it does require a fair bit of RAM to run smoothly.

> Slow down, simplify things, and improve the user experience. Gitlab already has enough features to be competitive for a while with the Github + marketplace model.

Completely agree with this and what the parent said - I think this is part of why running Gitlab seems to require an ever increasing amount of compute resources :(

[maverwa]

> That's what I do - run the omnibus package sans fancy helm chart - and it works out pretty well.

Can second that. Hosting a instance for our (quite small) dev team on a kinda-small VM and the GitLab Omnibus Package has been one of the nicest (while biggest) piece of software to administrate. Updates are super smooth, the things we use seem to be stable over the last two years. Only three unplanned downtime’s in that time and all because our hoster is plain terrible (hi Telekom!).