Dear open-source maintainers, a letter from GitLab

Re:Dear open-source maintainers, a letter from GitLab by noir_lord on Monday January 18, 2016 @12:04PM (#10925446)

The opportunity cost on the front side is often worth it but the long term benefit on the back side is you aren't dependent on that SaaS, are running stuff you know something about and have a lot of flexibility.

I'm from the old school, I use SaaS/PaaS mostly for stuff I know is painful to do yourself (sometimes file storage, nearly always email) but the rest lives on vanilla boxes configured with ansible (frankly ansible is faster to use once you get your head around it than learning 5 different PaaS setups).

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Re:Dear open-source maintainers, a letter from GitLab by georgefrick on Monday January 18, 2016 @07:05PM (#10927981)

Can you suggest a good way to get started with Ansible?

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Re:Dear open-source maintainers, a letter from GitLab by noir_lord on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @08:23AM (#10930519)

The ansible docs are excellent and walk you through the process, one thing I did (and would suggest) is use vagrant (or similar) with ansible, it has built in support for it and it allows you build/tear-down way faster while you are learning.

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Re:Dear open-source maintainers, a letter from GitLab by Luyt on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @02:21AM (#10929260)

I just installed Ansible on a workstation and started playing with it to configure a server (the server only needs SSH). Or, use this guide:

http://www.ansible.com/get-started

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