The irony of this whole thing being that GitLab is hosted on Azure...
"We’re already in the process of migrating GitLab.com to Google Cloud Platform."[1]
So looks like they wont be on Azure for much (?) longer?
1 - https://about.gitlab.com/2018/04/05/gke-gitlab-integration/
Edit: Found this super-interesting architecture overview: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/infrastructure/production-...
In my case i simply want to move since i really dislike microsoft and their business decisions. I simply don't want to be involved in any "direct" way with this company. Microsoft doesn't have much control over GitLab, just because they use their servers. But Microsoft will have a lot of control over GitHub.
GitLab offers free private repos. I expect that's a factor in many people choosing it.
Meanwhile Google is GitLab's largest investor, and I've been burned more times to count. Google Wave? Google Wave?
There are many articles covering this, for instance: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/08/windows-10-microsoft-b...