Comment by globular-toast
1 month ago
What always surprises me in these discussions is how few people have used GitLab CI. What gives? It's far, far superior to GitHub and even existed first.
1 month ago
What always surprises me in these discussions is how few people have used GitLab CI. What gives? It's far, far superior to GitHub and even existed first.
I found gitlab ci's yaml the smallest of the 3 I've used (gitlab, GitHub actions, CircleCI).
But does gitlab ci have anything for sharing? GitHub actions are built around it, and CircleCI has orbs and contexts.
For example, muse's guide for gitlab involves making your own container and managing the cache yourself (ref: https://mise.jdx.dev/continuous-integration.html#gitlab-ci)
GitHub actions is a couple of lines (ref: https://mise.jdx.dev/continuous-integration.html#github-acti...)
Not sure what you mean by "smallest". With GitLab you create docker images. That means you can easily run them locally and share them. In the example you gave the GitHub actions one looks like more lines of YAML but only works because they made an "action". If they had provided a Docker image then GitLab would be just as easy (and trivial to test locally).
mise already is trivial to test locally though, and I'm not sure I agree that maintaining a CI config + Docker image is just as easy as maintaining a CI config.
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