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Comment by martimarkov | Hacker News Reader

Just out of curiosity why did you decide to use GCP rather than Azure or AWS?

We currently run on Azure. GitLab integrates deeply with Kubernetes and specifically GKE, so it makes sense to run GitLab.com there: https://about.gitlab.com/2018/04/05/gke-gitlab-integration/

I am sure getting off your main competitors platform is a huge win now!

Are you saying MS would sabotage Gitlab.com on Azure?

Isn't Netflix running on the same platform (AWS) as Amazon Prime?

Realistic speaking, what's the huge win for GitLab?

To answer your question: no I was not implying that.

All it takes a someone in the billing department leaking metadata to a project manager for confidential information to leak (traffic numbers, storage trends etc.).

Sure trust every employee of your only real competitor if you want, but I wouldn't if it was my business and I had alternatives.

Why should GitLab abandon Azure? Things are working for them just fine. Now when Google acquires GitLab I'm sure that moving to GCP will be a requirements but until then there's no threat to GitLab just because they are running on a platform owned by a Platinum member of the Linux foundation (something Amazon and Google can't say).

That is quite interesting. We are planning to offer IPv6 based kubernetes hosting with transparent reachability by IPv4. Are you interested in talking about that?

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