HiDALGO integration toolchain
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GitLab vs GitHub

General Comparison

Pricing

GitHub Free gives teams private repositories with unlimited collaborators at no cost…

— Private repositories with unlimited collaborators / GitHub Blog, April 14, 2020

• https://gitlab.kitware.com
• https://gitlab.spack.io
• https://gitlab.bsc.es

Legal aspects & Ownership

We do not claim any ownership rights to the information that you submit to the GitLab application itself, your code is yours.

— GitLab.com Terms

You retain ownership of and responsibility for Your Content…

Because you retain ownership of and responsibility for Your Content, we need you to grant us – and other GitHub Users – certain legal permissions, listed in Sections D.4 – D.7.

— GitHub Terms of Service

… one of the most popular CI/CD frameworks today. GitLab has everything that GitHub has, and giving teams increased control over their repositories.

… was initially designed with a built-in CI/CD tool, which makes it

— GitLab vs GitHub – What Are The Key Differences And Which One Is Better?

• Key question:
  • do we need environment to promote or develop?
• Other aspects to keep in mind:
  • do we need self-hosted environment?
  • do we need FOSS CI/CD platform with advanced SDLC?
    • benefit for Spack

Continuous integration

• comparisons:
  • GitLab CI vs. Jenkins vs. Travis CI
  • GitLab CI vs. TravisCI
• self-hosted solutions: Jenkins or CircleCI

Automated deployment

• Deployment on clusters

  • Package manager:

    • Spack \(\leadsto\) YAML \(\implies\) lmod \(\overset{\text{ModEnv}}{\leadsto}\) {Tcl|Lua}

    -alternatives

    • vcpkg -> VStudio
    • conan -> hard to maintain several alternated installations
    • easypack
  • SCM: Ansible \(\leadsto\) YAML, Puppet, sparrow
  • Containers: Singularity or Docker \(\leadsto\) shell+
    • can be automated by Spack
• ❓❗ FabSim-based solution