GitHub Alternatives

Re:GitHub Alternatives by macinjosh on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @05:21PM (#17242192)

I am a happy gitlab.com user. However, with all of this week's news I decided to see what it would take to run my own GitLab instance. I was surprised to find that on Digital Ocean and AWS Lightsail the one-click GitLab installs required an instance that costs ~$40 per month just for me, one user. Any cheaper/smaller instances were to anemic to run GitLab at all. Seems like there are some performance issues to deal with there.

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Re:GitHub Alternatives by Alupis on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @06:25PM (#17242632)

> the one-click GitLab installs required an instance that costs ~$40 per month just for me, one user

Maybe the Digital Ocean 1-click install requires this... but GitLab will run on a Raspberry Pi 2[1]... which is pretty darn low specs.

From the GitLab minimum requirements, it basically just needs 1 cpu core, and 1 GB of ram, plus some swap (if you go that low in ram)[2]

[1] https://about.gitlab.com/installation/#raspberry-pi-2

[2] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/install/requirements.html#cpu

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Re:GitHub Alternatives by cobbzilla on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @05:28PM (#17242260)

GitLab is a Rails app, what did you expect? /s We use gitea (written in Go), it runs well on more modest hardware.

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Re:GitHub Alternatives by artursapek on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @05:52PM (#17242405)

Why the sarcasm? Rails is a pig.

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Re:GitHub Alternatives by ezrast on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @06:25PM (#17242624)

Probably because GitHub is also built on Rails.

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Re:GitHub Alternatives by pmoriarty on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @04:26PM (#17250812)

I wonder if there's a chance GitLab will be rewritten in a more efficient language.

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Re:GitHub Alternatives by edjboston on Thursday June 07, 2018 @03:01PM (#17259054)

GitLab VPE here. We are starting to re-write performance intensive part of our application in Golang. E.g. our Gitaly project: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly

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Re:GitHub Alternatives by artursapek on Friday June 08, 2018 @12:13AM (#17262525)

That's awesome. Great choice of a language. We just moved to Gitlab internally (we were actually starting to do so before the MSFT news). Very happy so far. Looking forward to speed improvements.

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Re:GitHub Alternatives by edjboston on Thursday June 07, 2018 @03:05PM (#17259090)

GitLab VPE here. We're working on Dockerized version that will run in a Kubernetes cluster, which should make this easier, assuming you've already made that investment in your infrastructure.

More pertinent to your concern about cost: It should make it easier for PaaS' who are k8s-based to run it for you and perhaps provide a lower price point.

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Re:GitHub Alternatives by juliusmusseau on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @05:52PM (#17242409)

Bitbucket On-Prem (aka Bitbucket Server) is pure Java + direct git invocations, so runs very nicely on modest hardware. Can get by on 1GB RAM! (But more recommended if you have more than 10 users).

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Re:GitHub Alternatives by petre on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @11:47PM (#17244228)

Doesn't it require Tomcat, Apache, Postgres/MySQL? I've recently installed Jira Core and Confluece for a client and they hardly seem lightweight web apps.

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Re:GitHub Alternatives by maineldc on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @05:27PM (#17242246)

I run a small gitlab instance on a $14/mo OVH instance and have been quite happy. I used to run on the smaller version and it was still OK.

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Re:GitHub Alternatives by half-kh-hacker on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @06:16PM (#17242555)

For a small instance, I get away with running an instance of Gitea on a 2.49€/mo VPS.

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