GitLab, with Marin Jankovski

Feb 4, 2020

GitLab is a single application DevOps platform, including source code management and CI/CD tools for targets including Kubernetes. The application itself runs on Kubernetes, including in its largest installation, the SaaS version at gitlab.com. Marin Jankovski is an Engineering Manager at GitLab, where he was Employee #1. He joins Craig and Adam to talk about migrating to Kubernetes, remaining a monolith, and the company value of radical transparency.

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Chatter of the week

• Little Free Libraries
  • Original discussion
• Simon Weckert’s Google Maps hack
  • The canonical hand-cart
  • Google responds

News of the week

• CNCF TOC election results
• HPE acquires Scytale
  • Episode 45, with Andrew Jessup
• CNCF announces KubeCon EU schedule
  • The actual schedule
  • That discount code again: KCEUGKP15
• Run Windows Server Containers on GKE
  • Episode 70, with Patrick Lang
  • New Google Cloud certifications address the cloud skills gap
• Cisco Hyper-Accelerates Applications in a Hybrid Multicloud Hyper-World
  • Updates to Google’s partnership with Cisco
• AKS 2020-01-27 release
• AWS Container Security Survey by Michael Hausenblas
• Infra.app
• A bit of Istio before tea-time by Alex Ellis
  • Loan a cloud IP to your minikube cluster
  • Building containers without Docker
  • Building a Linux Desktop for Cloud Native Development
  • The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
• etcd blog on being tested by Jepsen
  • Jepsen blog on testing etcd
• How Fluentd collects Kubernetes metadata by Brady Zuo
• Troubleshooting Kubernetes OOM by Carlos Arilla
• DNS Lookups in Kubernetes by Karan Sharma
• Community collaboration on Notary v2 by Justin Cormack
• CNCF Speaker’s Bureau: a great resource
• MayaData raises $26m
  • Episode 56, with Evan Powell

Links from the interview

• Marin Jankovski’s README
• GitLab
• Product features
• All remote company
• Radical transparency
  • Postmortem of 2017 database outage
• Advantages of a single application
• Community and Enterprise Editions
  • GitLab Open Source
• GitLab’s unconventional journey to CI/CD and Kubernetes
  • Deployment to Kubernetes added in 2016
  • GitLab’s journey to GCP
• GitLab Serverless
• Tanuki logo
  • The old logo was.. “threatening”
• Crossplane integration with GitLab
• Marin on GitLab