Post from 5th April 2018 on their blog says:

"We’re already in the process of migrating GitLab.com to Google Cloud Platform."[1]

So looks like they wont be on Azure for much (?) longer?

1 - https://about.gitlab.com/2018/04/05/gke-gitlab-integration/

Edit: Found this super-interesting architecture overview: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/infrastructure/production-...

I think that the topic 'privacy' isn't the main factor in this case. Most stuff on platforms like GitHub and GitLab are public anyway and shouldn't include any private stuff.

In my case i simply want to move since i really dislike microsoft and their business decisions. I simply don't want to be involved in any "direct" way with this company. Microsoft doesn't have much control over GitLab, just because they use their servers. But Microsoft will have a lot of control over GitHub.

> Most stuff on platforms like GitHub and GitLab are public anyway and shouldn't include any private stuff.

GitLab offers free private repos. I expect that's a factor in many people choosing it.

That's fine, although IMO anyone that doesn't like Microsoft's decisions over the past few years is living in the past.

Meanwhile Google is GitLab's largest investor, and I've been burned more times to count. Google Wave? Google Wave?

One move from Microsoft that really disappointed me recently was to prioritize advertisement over user privacy, for example in Windows 10. I read big chunks of the terms and conditions myself and was horrified.

There are many articles covering this, for instance: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/08/windows-10-microsoft-b...

Investor != owner. Very different in terms of control and influence even if they are the largest investor. It'll be the Google VC and not corporate.

How were you burned by google wave? It was never a finished product and for the longest time (probably forever before being canceled) was a beta product.

You still have the source code. If big Google tries to take over you can always fork