Choosing Git hosting service
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This document discusses guidelines for choosing a Git hosting service, whether cloud-based or on-premise. Key factors to consider include security, whether code needs to be private or public, support for multiple client sites, IT capabilities, performance, integration with other services, cost, and available features. Popular cloud-based options include GitHub, BitBucket, and Beanstalk, while on-premise options include GitHub Enterprise, GitLab, and Stash. The best choice depends on balancing these considerations according to each organization's unique needs and preferences.
Choosing Git hosting service
- 1. GIT HOSTING SERVICE guidelines for choosing the right one Yoram Michaeli yorammi@tikalk.com February 2014
- 2. Congratulation!!! You've already made a major decision which is: working with GIT. You need now to decide: where to host the GIT repositories for the collaboration within your organization (and with others if needed)? Tip: moving from one hosting service to another is usually not a big issue, so this is not such a 'big deal' if you'll have the wrong decision. Still, it is better to make the right one. 2
- 3. There is no one solution that fits all organizations - each organization have different factors to consider while making that decision. 3
- 4. The main question to answer in most cases - is: should we host the GIT repositories locally on our servers or should we use a cloud-based hosting service. 4
- 5. For answering this question, you should basically consider those factors: Security Private or public (or both)? One client site or more? Will IT handle it? Performance Integration with other services Cost 5
- 6. Security Moving to a cloud-based service is still a big issue for many organizations, considering: Data security when hosted on the cloud. Network traffic security. Tip: in many cases, the data is more secure when hosted in the cloud-based service than behind your local firewall. 6
- 7. Private or public (or both)? Most organizations wants to keep the code private. Still, some code - in the open-source world - is public. In order to be able to publish the code you need it to be accessible from the web – maintaining a public repository on a local server is not an easy and secure task. 7
- 8. One client site or more? Many organizations has more than one site where the users are located and should access the code. You can solve this issue using the VPN solution, firewall-rules/features or by putting the repositories in a cloud-based service. 8
- 9. Will IT handle it? Hosting a GIT repositories locally requires IT to: Handle Linux servers (can be an issue in many Windows-based organizations). Maintain the service (backup, installations/upgrades, troubleshooting, storage, hardware & network issues, etc.). 9
- 10. Performance GIT is considered to be much faster and reliable than other source-control systems. Still: Big repositories can be an issue for a slow network infrastructure. Some local solutions has bad performance. Slow intranet can cause bad performance. Using the wrong hardware for the hosted GIT service can be an issue as well. 10
- 11. Integration with other services GIT repositories usually integrate with other services such as CI-servers, issue-tracking service, and more. For good integration you should consider: Are those services hosted locally or on the cloud? How deep is that integration? Can that integration be solved for a mix of cloud-based and local services? Tip: sometimes you should consider moving the other services (from the could to a local server or the other way around) instead of deciding the location of GIT according to the other services location. 11
- 12. Cost The cost is a key factor for the discussed decision: Hosting GIT repositories locally requires hardware, human-resources and knowledge Some on-premise GIT-hosting solutions are expensive. Same goes for few cloud-based GIT-hosting solutions as well. 12
- 13. The following slides contains introduction and a comparison between some cloud-based GIT hosting services and between some on-premise solutions. Please be noticed that: Not all available solutions included: ● - There are other options such as Gitolite, GitWeb with Gerrit and more. - I've chose only services that includes features as such: pull/merge request, code-web-viewer and more beside the basic GIT repositories hosting feature. - Hosting services for open-source-only repositories are not covered here. Those services are being updated all the time. 13
- 15. GitHub (cloud hosting service) GitHub is the largest code host available (more than 10 million repositories). ●Fair prices (see: https://github.com/pricing). ●Many features (see: https://github.com/features). ●Highly reliable (see: https://status.github.com/). ●Supports both private and public repositories. ●Support many programming languages. ●Special client-applications for Mac and Windows ● 15
- 16. Assembla Assembla is a large code hosting service (more than 1 million users). ●Fair prices (see: https://www.assembla.com/plans). ● Unlimited private repositories number. ● Many features (see: https://www.assembla.com/features?page=repositories#features). ●Supports only private repositories. ●Built in issue-tracking, task management and projects management. ● 16
- 17. BitBucket BitBucket is a large code hosting service. ●Fair prices (see: https://bitbucket.org/plans). ● Unlimited private repositories number. ● Many features (see: https://bitbucket.org/features). ●Supports both private and public repositories. ●Highly reliable (see: http://status.bitbucket.org/). ●Native integration with other Atlassian services (Jira, etc.). ●Provides the best (free) Mac and Windows client – SourceTree – that works with any Git hosting service. ● 17
- 18. Beanstalk Beanstalk is a large code hosting service. ●Fair prices (see: http://beanstalkapp.com/pricing). ●Many features (see: http://beanstalkapp.com/features ). ●Supports only private repositories. ●Fairly reliable (see: http://status.beanstalkapp.com/) ● 18
- 19. Cloud-based GIT hosting - comparison Hosting service GitHub Private repositories + Public repositories + BitBucket Beanstalk + + + + Fair prices Assembla + Pons. Limitation on repos. number + Install base Known as the most advanced tool out there Cons. + + Unlimited # of private repo. + + Native integration with Atlassian services Install base Limitation on repos. number 19
- 21. GitHub enterprise GitHub enterprise on-premise is a fully featured service based on the advanced GitHub cloud-based hosting service. ●It is expensive and based on number of users (see: ● https://enterprise.github.com/pricing). 21
- 22. GitLab GitLab is a free of charge (there is an option for a yearly support package) on-premise GIT hosting service. ●GitLab has a large community. ●GitLab runs only on Ubuntu and is ruby-based. ●GitLab includes all the common features (merge requests, code browsing, commits and branches tracking, etc.) ● 22
- 23. Stash Stash is Atlassian on-premise GIT hosting service. ●Stash has native integration with other Atlassian services (Jira, etc.). ●Stash is expensive – prices based on users number (see: https://www.atlassian.com/software/stash/pricing). ●Stash is fully featured (see: https://www.atlassian.com/software/stash#whystash) ●Stash have an extendable API and Event mechanism ● 23
- 24. Gitorious Gitorious is a free of charge on-premise GIT hosting service. ●Gitorious includes many common features (merge requests, code browsing, commits and branches tracking, etc.) ● 24
- 25. On-premise GIT hosting - comparison Hosting service GitHub enterprise Free of charge GitLab Stash + High prices + + + Common features + + + + Unlimited # of private repo. Gitorious + + + API Pros. GitHub-based features Install base, Community Native integration with Atlassian services, Extendable API Cons. Price Performance Price 25
- 26. Bottom line, when selecting a GIT hosting service you should decide whether to host the service locally or use the cloud-based service and consider it according to: Security Private or public (or both)? One client site or more? Can and will IT handle it? Performance Integration with other services Cost Features 26