Gitlab and Red Hat: Automation to enhance secure software development(about.gitlab.com)
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Gitlab and Red Hat: Automation to enhance secure software development
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2020/04/29/gitlab-and-redhat-automation/
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Thanks for your feedback -- it's great to hear that you've had a positive experience with GitLab so far!
I'm the new Sr. Open Source Program Manager at GitLab and will be working on further improving the experience of the GitLab for Open Source program. I am also an internal advocate for open source projects and hope to explore ways that GitLab can help open source projects thrive at scale.
For those who are unfamiliar with the GitLab for Open Source program, you can find out more at: https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/open-source/. Through this program, we give our top tiers for free to open source projects, and that comes with 50K fee CI minutes and 95% off of support.
I'm the new Sr. Open Source Program Manager at GitLab and will be working on further improving the experience of the GitLab for Open Source program. I am also an internal advocate for open source projects and hope to explore ways that GitLab can help open source projects thrive at scale.
For those who are unfamiliar with the GitLab for Open Source program, you can find out more at: https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/open-source/. Through this program, we give our top tiers for free to open source projects, and that comes with 50K fee CI minutes and 95% off of support.
Thanks for sharing your experience with GitLab and the point you made about hosting your own runners.
Gitlab allows developers to iterate faster, with smaller code changes and the integrated approach allows developers to compress the cycle times. GitLab being open source allows everyone to make a contribution to the project.
Gitlab allows developers to iterate faster, with smaller code changes and the integrated approach allows developers to compress the cycle times. GitLab being open source allows everyone to make a contribution to the project.
I'm happy to see this partnership and I hope it continues to develop. I've been using Gitlab for years. I always hoped for Github to open source their platform, but alas that isn't likely to happen. I think the de-facto home of open source should be Gitlab, an open source product itself. I am not doing my part however as most of my open source projects are on Github. I am going to spend some time at least setting up mirrors of everything so users with purer values than me don't have to sacrifice their freedom to access it.
Anyway, I came here to say that Gitlab CI has revolutionized CI in my opinion. It's truly an amazing product, and Gitlab is worth a look purely for that IMHO. A lot of others are implementing similar features because of how good it is. The ability to host your own runners alone made Gitlab an exceptional fit for me in the past. I initially tried it after Circle starting experiencing instability and small pockets of downtime routinely during the day, which was causing pain to my developers. With Gitlab we've never had that problem (this was years ago so Circle may be much better now. Not trying to crap on Circle).
If you haven't tried it out, it's worth a look. You can start (and scale pretty far) without paying a dime. Even just a simple smoke test for your code is easy to implement and worth the time. From there you can iterate and build a truly useful CI suite.