I'm a huge Gitlab fan but this seems a little parallel to their core service if not orthogonal... I've been pretty pleased with the feature progress of Gitlab overall though, for example support for merge request-only CI steps just landed[0]
I see this as a play to start leveraging all the machines they have hanging around for running jobs and gitlab instances, and I'm not against it as long as the Gitlab itself doesn't suffer. Are they planning to pivot to becoming a cloud provider like digital ocean? It feels like if they can manage orchestrating serverless functions they can manage orchestrating containers or VMs...
I see this as a play to start leveraging all the machines they have hanging around for running jobs and gitlab instances, and I'm not against it as long as the Gitlab itself doesn't suffer. Are they planning to pivot to becoming a cloud provider like digital ocean? It feels like if they can manage orchestrating serverless functions they can manage orchestrating containers or VMs...
[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/gitlab/comments/a54mc3/support_for_...