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Re:What we learned after a year on Kubernetes by jarv on Thursday September 17, 2020 @03:19AM (#24502000)
It has been possible to run GitLab the application on K8s for some time now for the majority of self-managed deployments. There were some limitations however, for running GitLab on K8s at the very large scale of GitLab.com that we have been working through in the last year.

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Re:What we learned after a year on Kubernetes by stepbeek on Thursday September 17, 2020 @03:28AM (#24502041)
> August 2019 when we migrated the GitLab Container Registry to Kubernetes, the first service to move. Though this was a critical and high traffic service, it was a good choice for the first migration because it is a stateless application with only a few external dependencies

I was under the impression that porting a large stateless service was something that wasn't too bad to do with K8S? What limitations prevented this from going ahead earlier?

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Re:What we learned after a year on Kubernetes by jarv on Thursday September 17, 2020 @03:42AM (#24502113)
Yeah, this is why we decided to migrate it first about a year ago, and we probably could have done it sooner than that. Other services were not yet ready to migrate until recently due to some blocking issues which was a factor in the decision.

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