We are changing our system. We settled on git (but are open for alternatives) as long as we can selfhost it on our own machines.

Specs

Must have

  • hosted on promise
  • reliabile
  • unlikely to be discontinued in the next >5 years
  • for a group of at least 20 people

Plus

  • gui / windows integration
  • chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.netEnglish
    211·
    4 months ago

    I’m aware this is the selfhost community, but for a company of 20 engineers, it is probably best to use something commercial in the cloud.

    Biggest pain point was for our ops guy, who constantly had to stay behind to perform upgrades and maintenance, as they couldn’t do it during business hours when the engineers are working. With a team of at least 20, scheduling downtimes could get increasingly more difficult.

    It also adds an entire system to be audited by the auditors.

    The selfhost vs buy commercial kind of bounces back and forth. For smaller teams, less than 5 to 10 engineers, it might be a fun endeavour; but from that point on, until you get to mega corp scale with dedicated ops department maintaining your entire infrastructure, it is probably more effective to just pay for a solution from a major vendor in the cloud instead.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      4 months ago

      Biggest pain point was for our ops guy, who constantly had to stay behind to perform upgrades and maintenance,

      This is weird.

      Hosts selected for updates will be unavailable from 2100-2110 or so. Then they’re up.

      They’re done by at/cron if they’re selected.

      There’s no manual work if the monitoring system thinks they’re okay.

      Gitlab-ce on-prem. Although that may now suck since they’re being bought out; and we all know how that went for redhat.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        That really depends on who buys them. If it’s something like Datadog, maybe that’s a good thing and they can compete with Github better. It’s probably not great for self-hosters, but it could be a great thing for the commercial software ecosystem.

    • swooosh@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      61·
      4 months ago

      Nope. Hosting in the cloud isn’t possible due to legal reasons.

      I don’t think that downtimes area serious issue for us.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        We have similar (legal is paranoid about our competitors getting our algorithms), so we just put our self-hosted cloud stuff behind our VPN. Nothing we run is on-prem, but almost everything is in our cloud infra.

      • carl_dungeon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        In our case cloud is fine, as long as it’s within our security boundary- so that means external SaS is out, but hosted within our cloud is fine. I’m still not super excited about the prospect of managing and maintaining it though :/ We’re going down this path because AWS is killing code commit and other pipeline stuff, which sucks because even though other tools are better, code commit was fedRamped and from the same vendor.