Gitlab or Github, which one are you using?

@manojranaweera Great to know, a good alternative!

@jorcus great to know!

@eudald_camprubi From my point of view Gitlab CI-CD is much more feature-rich than Github actions: - Hosting your own Github actions runner is overcomplicated - one should execute shell script and must follow the security guidelines GitHub specified otherwise runner just fail to run - Scheduling actions is a pain - every schedule change should be committed whilst scheduling in gitlab is managed through web-interface - There is no way to check if CI-file is valid and what kind of pipeline it would create - There are no such thing as executor in GitHub . Gitlab allows different runner architectures ( k8s, docker, shell, ssh-shell and so on ) which are really useful - Github runner works via shell script - it means that a lot of work to deploy it correctly, while gitlab runner deploys itself properly making all the necessary things itself - No one can take a look into GitHub secrets. Even project maintainers who can of course create such a pipeline that will show them secrets. So if you are a project maintainer who need to take a look at Github secret - you should write a pipeline and make a lot of unnecessary work just because - Only way to specify which runner take job is via labels which again can be challenging to build properly. For instance if I want only docker runners to take this job I should always label docker runners properly. Gitlab allows me to specify runners directly, by label or by runner-type - There is no such thing as Kubernetes integration in GitHub actions. Gitlab offer to plug-in Kubernetes cluster and see k8s workloads and do a lot of dev-ops work automatically

@eudald_camprubi Definitely good to know!

@devpenzil These are some really good points, I hadn't considered the open source vs commercial aspect to this

@atulghorpade no, not really. They are mostly for people who write code

@alexharris Yeah, that's what I thought.

@michel_brown @alexharris FYI according to the Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2022: "GitHub is the most popular Version Control for both personal (87%) and professional use (56%). GitLab, Bitbucket, and Azure Repos are more likely used for professional purposes instead of personal." Hope it helps ✌️

@michel_brown we use Gitlab but its not a loaded question, just keen to understand what the split is

@michel_brown Its very similar to Github, a competitor product. Typically you would use one or the other