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Gitlab is great but I wish the CI SaaS providers would get their act together and support it. Most only support Github and (at a push) Bitbucket.

I suppose though, if you are running your own Git repos then you probably want to run your own CI.

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GitLab Developer here, have you tried GitLab CI https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-ci/? It's not as feature packed as some of the SaaS providers' offerings, but it does the job, runs on your own server, is fully integrated with GitLab.

Thanks Douwe. If people want a CI Saas they can also use Magnum CI that supports GitLab or ci.gitlab.com. The latter is completely free, even for private projects, as long as you bring your own runner to execute the tests.

We use Strider for CI with Gitlab and it's been excellent. Self-hosting is a priority for our code for many reasons. StriderCD documentation is still lacking a bit but it reminds me of a young Gitlab. More and more CI providers are supporting Gitlab since the API is so close to Github so make sure to ask!

Gitlab also offers CI but we are a Node shop so I stuck with what I could modify best. That being said I've been able to modify and contribute to Gitlab easily over the years.

Great job Gitlab team! I'm so glad to see the remote team and open model succeed so well.

Thanks for contributing to GitLab doublerebel! Strider CI looks nice. Just wanted people to know there is a GitLab runner for Node https://www.npmjs.com/package/gcr

We are very heavy users of Gitlab-CI and have integrated it into a Docker build environments which has worked really well for us. A project to keep an eye on is DockCI - https://github.com/RickyCook/DockCI

Glad to hear that. Interesting to read about DockCI. What do you or others think about using Apache Mesos for spinning up Docker containers with GitLab Runners?

Hey! buildkite.com have supported GitLab CI for a while, and you bring your own build agents, so you can keep your source code safe :)

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