I recently present at Cloud Expo Europe, describing the how and why GitLab has been working to produce a cloud native distribution. I've outlined some of the blockers we've faced, and what we've been working on to resolve these going forward. Those changes benefit both our traditional deployment methodologies, as well as our efforts for deployment on Kubernetes.
Our biggest blockers have been how to separate file system dependency for our various parts. For Git content, we've implemented Gitaly (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly/). For various other parts, we've been implementing support for object storage across the board. Doing this while keeping up with the rapid growth of Kubernetes and Helm has been a challenge, but entirely worth the effort.
We are also bringing all of these changes to GitLab CE, as a part of our Stewardship directive (https://about.gitlab.com/stewardship/, https://about.gitlab.com/2016/01/11/being-a-good-open-source...). We don't feel that our efforts to allow for greater scalability, resiliency, and platform agnosticism belong only in the Enterprise offering, so we're actively ensuring that everyone can benefit, just as they can contribute.
Journey to Cloud Native: Breaking the monolith and scaling towards tomorrow - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1fsgvSuGpn-MnMqKaTOoi...
Our biggest blockers have been how to separate file system dependency for our various parts. For Git content, we've implemented Gitaly (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitaly/). For various other parts, we've been implementing support for object storage across the board. Doing this while keeping up with the rapid growth of Kubernetes and Helm has been a challenge, but entirely worth the effort.
We are also bringing all of these changes to GitLab CE, as a part of our Stewardship directive (https://about.gitlab.com/stewardship/, https://about.gitlab.com/2016/01/11/being-a-good-open-source...). We don't feel that our efforts to allow for greater scalability, resiliency, and platform agnosticism belong only in the Enterprise offering, so we're actively ensuring that everyone can benefit, just as they can contribute.