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I would appreciate it if they first focused on getting their Kubernetes integration working with anything other than Google cloud. Or maybe add support for RBAC, or a variety of other things that make some of these amazing features like auto devops workable for the common man without having to spend weeks setting it up.

If I try to install gitlab on Kubernetes I have no less than 4 ways to do it, and none of them work perfectly.

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> If I try to install gitlab on Kubernetes I have no less than 4 ways to do it, and none of them work perfectly.

Yes. Until a couple months ago the 'official' way was a deprecated (but not yet replaced with anything not marked alpha) chart: https://gitlab.com/charts/gitlab-omnibus

FWIW, I use that to run GitLab on Kubernetes on AWS (not EKS).

Though the new 'container-native' (more separate containers for each service instead of one big omnibus container for the web app + git server + else) one is now out and 'official': https://gitlab.com/charts/gitlab-omnibus

So I hope to upgrade to that soon.

Support for RBAC for GitLab Managed Apps was added in 11.4 [1]. You can also connect any Kubernetes cluster hosted anywhere - see the docs on that [2].

What problems are you hitting when installing GitLab on Kubernetes? You can always open an issue about it so it can be prioritized for fixing.

[1] - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/29398

[2] - https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/clusters/#adding-an-...

Please also note that you don't have to install GitLab itself on Kubernetes in order to add a Kubernetes cluster to your projects or groups. We updated the docs yesterday to prevent confusion about this https://gitlab.com/charts/gitlab/merge_requests/599/diffs

We had multiple ways of installing on Kubernetes before but we reduced it to one canonical helm chart https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/install/kubernetes/gitlab_chart.h...

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