[tapoxi]

helm repo add gitlab https://charts.gitlab.io/ && helm upgrade --install gitlab gitlab/gitlab

I did this in 2019, it avoided so many headaches. CI is better too since there's a nice clean mapping of build -> pod for everything and I can just exec in if something's borked.

[odie5533]

Things would have to get really bad before I considered managing my own repositories. Trading someone else's headaches for my own.

[tapoxi]

It's not as bad as you think, I run the helm upgrade when patches come out, the backing store is S3 or managed SQL, it runs a nightly k8s cron called gitlab-backup which tarballs the whole thing into an s3 bucket with a single command restore should disaster strike. (This is part of the product, not a thing I wrote.)

I probably only babysit it for 30 minutes per year, including all the upgrades.

[0xbadcafebee]

^ this. the last thing i want is to add to my workload. take my money and make my life easier, even if it means that for one hour every couple months i can't do anything

[NewJazz]

Have you ever actually hosted gitlab?

[0xbadcafebee]

Not only have I hosted it, I've helped migrate two gitlab instances to github enterprise, because we didn't want to maintain it anymore

[NewJazz]

Don't you still have to maintain github enterprise?

[0xbadcafebee]

It's the cloud managed one, they have an "enterprisey" license that gives you more features/limits but you don't have to run infra, upgrades, patches etc

[nine_k]

It depends how high you value your headaches, and how high, your org's downtime. Github not working accrues over the hourly rate of every developer affected, which is likely $70-$100 a hour. 10 hours of outage in a year affecting a team of 10 would cost north of $70k, enough to hire a part-time SRE dedicated just to tend to your Gitlab installation.

[zxcvasd]

>10 hours of outage in a year affecting a team of 10 would cost north of $70k

10 hours x 10 developers x $70 per hour = $7000, not $70000.

[nine_k]

Thank you for the correction! This indeed completely changes the picture :-\