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"Host your own GitHub" using Gitlab and Dokku

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Git does not require a singular centralized repository and embraces decentralization. I like how hosting your own repository is embraced by the overall design of git. "Host your own Github" should most definitely be the norm vs having a github/sourceforge/google code that everyone relies on being up. I wish that everyone running their own repositories while pulling directly from others was the defacto standard, that way no one can use the excuse "$repository / $service is down I'll submit it later".

While I agree with the sentiment, I think having a centralised repository, such as Github, creates a more social environment for sharing projects. If everyone had their own "Github", I can imagine the sharing and collaboration of open source projects would become more difficult to manage.

Unless of course there was a service that, while didn't host Git repositories, did everything else that Github offers.

Unless there is?

.. unless the social machinery were also decentralised?

(To a certain extent, this is true of the environment git was born to serve, Linux kernel development; the social environment was the linux-kernel mailing list)

For those interested on an alternative Gitlab install, someone contributed this using Vagrant and Puppet: https://community.exoscale.ch/compute/tutorials/devtools/dep...

Can be provisioned on any supported Vagrant destination, not only ours.

Why even use Dokku? There's an off-the-shelf Gitlab image on DigitalOcean that works just great.

Not everyone trusts DigitalOcean for their hosting.

Bitnami hosted on AWS? Or a Bitnami image hosted on your own server?

There's certain to be one on AWS and likely other providers.

I second this; while Dokku sounds like a great way to ship your own fleet of applications (Heroku style), I'm not sure I see any benefit in using it to deploy GitLab. There are already images working on the main cloud providers and it seems to me a bit overkill for something you'd update once every few months at best.

Also, Gitblit[0] if you want to run on your own machine.

Full installation instructions: Unzip, run.

0 http://gitblit.org/

GitLab B.V. CEO here, please let me know if there are any questions.

I use Gitlab CE in my company, and it runs smoothly. Especially thanks for the painless upgrade script.

I have one question about the UI, your default font color (light gray) and size is sometimes too hard to read, could you add more themes to customize them?

I like the idea of hosting my own web-accessible repository, but am most familiar with Mercurial. Does GitLab support non-Git repositories, or is there an alternative that does?

RhodeCode supports both Git and Mercurial.

Gitlab seems to be another one of those "half-open" source projects where an arbitrary set of features is only available in the "Enterprise" edition. - https://www.gitlab.com/gitlab-ee/

GitLab B.V. CEO here. You are correct that we have a community and enterprise version of the software. The vast majority of features is available in the community version https://www.gitlab.com/gitlab-ce-features/ and many organizations run it with thousands of users.

So, what is your policy for when a contributing developer sends you a pull request that adds an enterprise edition feature to your community edition?

Ignore them?

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