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Sai Kishore Komanduri

Engineering an eGovernance Product | Hashnode Alumnus | I love pixel art

Sep 27, 2017

Hi GitLab, thank you for hosting an AMA! Lot of love to you guys for the work you have put in the community edition. ❤️

Right now CE is available to host on Linux distributions. Do you have any plans for macOS and Windows? Are there any technical bottlenecks that are stopping you to ship the CE to be hosted on these OSes?

Dmitriy Zaporozhets

CTO at GitLab

Sep 27, 2017

Thank you for kind words.

GitLab can run on macOS (I do development on it for years without any VM). But Windows is the problem. Most of our dependencies are quite Linux/Unix specific and until those are ported to Windows it's unlikely we can run server code on it.

Job van der Voort

VP of Product at GitLab

Sep 27, 2017

There is no real reason to host GitLab on macOS or Windows. You can run GitLab Runner on both platforms, so testing, building, deploying etc all works for everyone!

Installing and maintaining GitLab is ridiculously easy: it's never been a reason to not adopt GitLab! For all the way to deploy, see: https://about.gitlab.com/installation/

GitLab's dev kit does work on macOS (and I believe even Windows).