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I half expect a comment here explaining why Gitlab does it better ;)

:) We're not doing this better.

We're struggling with our load balancers right now. We're using Azure load balancers and then HAproxy. But the Azure ones sometimes don't work. Luckily the new network type on Azure supports floating IPs so we can set something up ourselves https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues/466

I would love to see the solution. We're also desiring to run HAProxy in Azure with keepalived (even in unicast mode). The black-box "windows based" load balancer that Azure offers is quite limited.

Cool, we're trying to do all the infrastructure work in the open under https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-com

Infrastructure issues are here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure

The one about the load balancer is https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues/467 but we don't have a lot of data published just yet as we are currently figuring it out.

do you guys have a blog post or anything talking about why you settled on Azure? I've used both azure and aws a decent amount now, and GitLab falls outside the "right place for the right tool" mentality I've been operating with. Most of our infrastructure is in Azure, but it's also mainly windows (azure has the best windows VM pricing with a moderate was agreement, which isn't surprising). There are some regulatory considerations for us too, buts that's anither conversation.

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