On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 8:44 AM, James <wirel...@tampabay.rr.com> wrote: > > Has anyone attempted to install a self hosted gitlab on gentoo server(s)? > A small gentoo cluster/container setup? Using a Distributed File System, > like cephfs, orangefs or other DFS? >
I know the Gentoo Infra team has had negative experiences with hosting just about anything Java and don't want to go near it. I don't know if that is based on specific experiences with GitLab or with just avoidance with Java in general. Most of the competing solutions in this space are also Java-based which is why we don't host any kind of alternative to Github. So, take that as a data point or not as you wish. Certainly interested to hear what others have found. One thing I might suggest if there are concerns with maintenance of Java is that you try to containerize it as much as possible. Put Gitlab and its dependencies in a container. Use config management to carefully track what need to be changed above the baseline to get it working. Put all the storage on mounts hosted outside the container and bind/network mount them into the container. Then if things get out of hand in updates/etc you can just build a new Gitlab container on each update, apply configuration and mounts, and then test it out. You could make everything Gitlab depends on essentially disposable that way. -- Rich
