[HN Gopher] Gitlab New Logo: DevOps Is at the Center of Gitlab
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       Gitlab New Logo: DevOps Is at the Center of Gitlab
        
       Author : 0xedb
       Score  : 102 points
       Date   : 2022-04-27 14:22 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
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       | dom96 wrote:
       | First time I'm hearing the "DevOps infinity logo", it seems that
       | everything uses a variation of this: Meta, VS Code...
        
         | ModernMech wrote:
         | Infinity is the new hexagon.
        
         | fallat wrote:
         | It's shitty brand design is what it is.
        
       | prepend wrote:
       | As much as I love the mustache fox, I struggle with GitLab being
       | at the center of devops. I think source is more powerful to non-
       | devs and hitching everything to devops might present some
       | challenges.
       | 
       | I work with lots of scientists and they don't care about devops
       | much now and may never need to. But they love GitHub because they
       | collaborate on scripts, manuscripts, demos, small data files,
       | etc. They pay $4/month or whatever and don't care about devops.
       | There's lots of people like this.
       | 
       | I think there's a smaller amount of proper software devs making
       | software that require devops and will pay for devops.
       | 
       | If GitLab is really about devops, then they should be repo
       | agnostic and work with lots of repos. But their core is still
       | source management that they do really well. So their marketing is
       | out of sync with their identity.
        
       | acoyfellow wrote:
       | Subtle change. I enjoy the concept and execution.
        
       | kretaceous wrote:
       | I love it.
       | 
       | - I like little quirks in logos like the infinity here.
       | 
       | - It's much more minimal. The old logo had too many unnecessary
       | lines in my opinion.
       | 
       | - I quickly associate the canine appearance and the color orange
       | as a fox so I'm not sure why people are not identifying as one.
       | 
       | - The subtle borders are _chef 's kiss_.
        
       | bitwize wrote:
       | This is a Borland -> Inprise tier shift in marketing.
        
       | dijit wrote:
       | Before I clicked I already knew it would incorporate the
       | horizontal lemniscate... that seems to have become synonymous
       | with devops.
       | 
       | I'm extremely tired of that symbol at this point, I mean there's
       | 4 of those images when I google for "devops" and nothing else:
       | https://i.imgur.com/pr9d8KH.png
        
         | Kiro wrote:
         | If the horizontal lemniscate is synonymous with DevOps that's
         | exactly what I would expect when searching for "devops". Do you
         | think it's a bad representation of what DevOps is? Otherwise I
         | don't understand what you're tired of.
        
           | dijit wrote:
           | I think that you can apply the lemniscate to basically
           | anything.
           | 
           | Feels lazy to keep reciting it as if it's novel or unique.
        
       | i_like_waiting wrote:
       | >DevOps Is at the Center of Gitlab
       | 
       | Yeah, just had a call with them and they confirmed that for only
       | VCS its not feasible to use their platform.
       | 
       | What are people migrating to? I am looking at bitbucket again I
       | guess.
        
         | lbotos wrote:
         | I work at GitLab, but curious what your use case is for _just
         | VCS_? I assume your company has other solutions for the
         | software lifecycle that you are happy with?
         | 
         | Depending on the size of your org, If it's small GitLab CE is
         | free and can readily handle VCS no problem, you won't have a
         | support contract though.
        
           | i_like_waiting wrote:
           | I am in charge of reporting, business intelligence and DE. We
           | use VCS to have all our SQL transformations stored there.
           | 
           | Like that all the business users interested can see whats
           | happening in background and we have things version
           | controlled.
           | 
           | For rest of the features we don't have use case and our
           | "proper IT" is using github instead, but there you have to
           | pay per seat in org. as I heard
        
             | lbotos wrote:
             | If the business users never need to write, just read, then
             | you could set the projects to public (if your instance is
             | in a private network) and then people can have vis, and you
             | don't need seats for those who aren't _writing_. I think
             | both products support this as an option.
        
               | geepdb wrote:
               | We ran into the same issue using dbt. Unfortunately it is
               | just not cost-effective to pay for full GitLab licenses
               | for BI users that occasionally tweak SQL queries and
               | don't leverage any other GitLab features.
        
             | i_like_waiting wrote:
             | explaining it now, for business users we would achieve the
             | same if they had access to sharepoint folder with the code
             | + syntax highlighting.
             | 
             | But I also believe its beneficial to educate the user about
             | VCS as side objective.
        
         | lps41 wrote:
         | Gitolite is open source and really easy to self host if you
         | only need VCS.
        
         | woojoo666 wrote:
         | I've been seeing codeberg.org more and more recently
        
         | DoctorDabadedoo wrote:
         | I would probably look back at github (or gitea if self-hosted
         | and you're looking for simplicity), bitbucket is a pile of
         | features that _almost_ work, but you 're constantly reminded
         | that you've seem better.
         | 
         | Commit control after PR decline/merge is one of them for me.
        
         | pyrophane wrote:
         | What do you mean? Do they just not offer a plan that is cost
         | effective for a source control only use case? I currently use
         | their source control and CI features, and that's it. No issues.
        
           | i_like_waiting wrote:
           | There is free tier that will have limit of 5 users in June.
           | 
           | The Free tier of GitLab SaaS will have a limit of 5 users per
           | namespace beginning June 22, 2022
           | 
           | https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2022/03/24/efficient-free-
           | tier...
        
             | dnsmichi wrote:
             | Self-managed GitLab won't have this user limit. You can run
             | GitLab EE without a license (which is the Free tier then),
             | or GitLab CE (only open source components), on a cloud VM
             | via Omnibus package installation or in Docker containers,
             | in a Kubernetes cluster, or on a Raspberry Pi.
             | 
             | https://about.gitlab.com/install/
        
         | trash_human wrote:
         | Depending on if your arch is supported, pipelines on bitbucket
         | is pretty cool.
        
         | yewenjie wrote:
         | I have been following OneDev and seems like it is going to be a
         | good contender.
         | 
         | https://github.com/theonedev/onedev
        
         | SebastianKra wrote:
         | Bibucket's code review tools are really bad.
         | 
         | As usual for Atlassian products, every click takes 1-2 seconds.
         | 
         | Finding comments requires manually scrolling. There is a filter
         | function, but it takes some time to load. And even then,
         | there's no way to sort comments chronologically. As a result,
         | we would be constantly missing responses if it wasn't for the
         | email notifications.
         | 
         | If a correction is made through force-push, you'll have no idea
         | what was changed compared to the replaced commit.
         | 
         | The phone interface is unusable. On iPad, scrolling
         | unintentionally adds comments.
         | 
         | There is a VSCode Plugin which is slightly better, but even
         | there we frequently miss comments or changes.
        
       | sercand wrote:
       | This is why we left Gitlab.
       | 
       | DevOps become center part of Gitlab which we don't use and need
       | any of those feature. We all need a code storage, code review,
       | issue tracking and the CI/CD. We would pay advance features of
       | those (epics, multiple assignee, etc) but we have to pay super
       | expensive top tier which includes unnecessary DevOps stuff. We
       | left and happy so far.
       | 
       | We are using Kubernetes and custom DevOps tools but don't want to
       | handle things the way that Gitlab does.
        
         | systemvoltage wrote:
         | What's the distinction between DevOps and CI/CD? I thought
         | CI/CD _is_ DevOps.
        
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           | abdusco wrote:
           | CI/CD is part of Devops. It also includes monitoring systems,
           | keeping them up, maintenance, upgrades necessary to keep the
           | software working.
        
           | itslennysfault wrote:
           | DevOps is a methodology.
        
             | andrewstuart2 wrote:
             | I think you're mistaken. DevOps is a very specific team
             | allowed to touch the Jenkins box, and is the old branding
             | for what is now SRE which are both just rebranded names for
             | Systems Administration, but with Cloud certifications
             | instead of Cisco and Dell.
             | 
             | I kid. But this is just as much the meme I've encountered
             | as Agile. Some successful company releases a book about
             | something they do that's fundamentally different, and
             | almost instantly enterprises across the globe have a
             | department for that thing with that name. Progress.
        
               | c17r wrote:
               | SRE jokingly stands for "SysAdmin, Really Expensive"
        
               | kodah wrote:
               | _Real SREs_ are great. Who wouldn 't want a Systems
               | Engineer that codes and can interrogate kernel issues or
               | a Software Engineer capable of writing their own compiler
               | running your operations?
               | 
               | Most companies, even if they hire these people, don't
               | know how to use or listen to them though. What usually
               | happens is they get lumped in with a bunch of Application
               | Operations folks and it sours the idea entirely.
        
             | systemvoltage wrote:
             | Well, I was trying to clarify this statement from OP:
             | 
             | > DevOps become center part of Gitlab which we don't use
             | and need any of those feature. We all need a code storage,
             | code review, issue tracking and the CI/CD.
             | 
             | It reads to me like this: "We don't use DevOps features in
             | Gitlab, but we use CI/CD pipelines in Gitlab". So it is
             | contradicting. As they responded, CI/CD is a subset of
             | DevOps methodology.
             | 
             | I've used Gitlab and didn't know there were more DevOps
             | tools other than their CI/CD features and runners.
             | 
             | I am still slightly confused.
        
               | sercand wrote:
               | DevOps is whole set of tools. Gitlab includes features
               | like monitoring, code scanning, Kubernetes integration,
               | docker registry, cloud security and protections. And
               | those are $1188 per year per person. By CI/CD I mean good
               | old Jenkins that runs on a computer in the office that
               | builds iOS Apps and uploads them to Apple AppStore (of
               | course current generation of CI/CD is much better).
               | Gitlab CI/CD and runners were there much before this
               | "Gitlab is the one DevOps platform" saga.
               | 
               | Everyone in our company including HR, marketing, design
               | people were also using Gitlab for task tracking.
               | Therefore we need those fancy issue tracking features for
               | better management. This features are in the tier that
               | $1188/year per person. For the features we don't use is
               | not something that we could afford.
        
               | systemvoltage wrote:
               | Ah got it, thanks. I wasn't aware that they've built all
               | this stuff.
        
               | bogomipz wrote:
               | I thought the OP was maybe referring to Gitlab's
               | "AutoDevOps" features which were introduced a few years
               | ago. From their site:
               | 
               | >"GitLab Auto DevOps is a collection of pre-configured
               | features and integrations that work together to support
               | your software delivery process."
               | 
               | I remember upgrading a Gitlab instance at that time and
               | ended up with an issue that was the result of the
               | AutoDevOps feature set. It seemed that AutoDevops was
               | turned on by default. My issue was easy to resolve but I
               | remember thinking at the time it was rather opinionated.
               | 
               | [1] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/topics/autodevops/
        
         | i_like_waiting wrote:
         | Where did you go instead?
        
         | 100011_100001 wrote:
         | This is happening everywhere. The current industry cycle is one
         | of scope expansion, moving away from the do one thing well
         | paradigm. This will lead to bloated software that do a little
         | bit of everything but not very well, which will trigger the
         | next industry cycle, of doing one thing well paradigm.
        
           | andrei wrote:
           | I've heard this talked about before, and I believe there's a
           | phrase for it, but I don't remember. Do you happen to know?
        
             | teknofobi wrote:
             | Bundling and Unbundling
             | https://stratechery.com/outline/bundling-and-unbundling
        
           | pojzon wrote:
           | Ive started working with Gitlab in last few months for new
           | contract and this was exactly what hit me hard.
           | 
           | Gitlab has too many half-baked features. Ive hit those issues
           | at least a dosen times.
           | 
           | From the top of my head:
           | 
           | - Environment variables dont work with triggers
           | 
           | - MS Teams integration does not support multiple channels
           | 
           | - Masking doesnt work for all variables
           | 
           | - Code AutoDeploy quite often just breaks for no reason..
           | 
           | - Kubernetes integration is super poor
           | 
           | I would prefer to have fewer fearures that actually work well
           | and have good support instead of bunch of stuff you have to
           | sometimes wait years for to be fixed (looking at their issue
           | tracker).
        
             | kjohnstonGTLB wrote:
             | GitLab Product Leader here - we do focus on MVCs and have
             | built a lot of breadth in our product, that's something we
             | are proud of. I do think we do a good job of pivoting and
             | removing features where appropriate. For example we started
             | with a not-secure-enough mechanism for attaching Kubernetes
             | clusters and shifted to the more secure GitLab Agent for
             | Kubernetes[1], deprecating the certificate method. We also
             | started with a "must install Prometheus and Elk on your
             | cluster" Observability solution and are now (after our
             | acquisition of Opstrace) working to make observability on-
             | by-default[2].
             | 
             | [1] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/clusters/agent/ [2] htt
             | ps://about.gitlab.com/direction/monitor/observability/#pr..
             | .
        
       | cabalamat wrote:
       | Does this mean I can ewrite a web app, put the source on GitLab
       | and have GitLab run the web app (ideally with very minimal
       | hassle)?
       | 
       | If not, what does it mean? What is Gitlab letting me do now than
       | (a) it didn't do before (b) Github doesn't do?
        
         | 0xbadcafebee wrote:
         | A year or two ago the industry decided everything had to be 'a
         | platform'. This is them saying "we too will chase industry
         | trends for cash. we have a platform!!! bring us your money".
         | The branding/logo thing... I guess is to reinforce to potential
         | customers that they do more than host code, I dunno. Nobody
         | understands what DevOps means so I'm not sure why they'd lean
         | into that.
        
         | john_cogs wrote:
         | GitLab team member here.
         | 
         | You may want to check out (and sign up as a beta tester) for
         | Cloud Seed, an open-source program led by GitLab Incubation
         | Engineering in collaboration with Google Cloud:
         | https://hello.cloudseed.app/
        
           | cabalamat wrote:
           | According to that URL:
           | 
           | > Deploying web applications from GitLab to major cloud
           | providers should be trivial.
           | 
           | Yes, that's what I want! I find it easy to develop web apps
           | in Python, but a PITA to deploy them.
        
         | dnsmichi wrote:
         | GitLab team member here.
         | 
         | > Does this mean I can ewrite a web app, put the source on
         | GitLab and have GitLab run the web app (ideally with very
         | minimal hassle)?
         | 
         | Cloud Seed aims to make this easier, deploying the web
         | application with minimal effort to your preferred cloud. More
         | details in https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/cloud_seed/ and
         | https://hello.cloudseed.app/ - it is a joint project from
         | Google Cloud and GitLab.
         | 
         | In case you run your web app in a containerized stack, and
         | prefer to deploy to Kubernetes, the integration with the Agent
         | for Kubernetes has been greatly improved:
         | https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/clusters/agent/
         | 
         | If you are looking to host static web apps (e.g. Hugo, etc.),
         | GitLab Pages can help. More ideas in this blog post to choose a
         | static site generator (SSG):
         | https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2022/04/18/comparing-static-si...
         | 
         | > If not, what does it mean? What is Gitlab letting me do now
         | than (a) it didn't do before (b) Github doesn't do?
         | 
         | Depending on which version you are at, new releases add
         | features every month on the 22nd. GitLab 14.10
         | https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2022/04/22/gitlab-14-10-re...
         | added the GitLab Runner Operator for Kubernetes for example.
         | That's an integration after the create (SCM) and verify (CI)
         | stage, ensuring that cloud native deployments deploy
         | applications, and maintenance levels follow best practices.
         | There are more stages in the DevOps lifecycle, such as package
         | and release or protect and secure.
         | 
         | Observability for deployed applications, and ensuring that
         | performance regressions do not reach production is also a very
         | hot topic imho (shameless plug: join my talk at KubeCon EU to
         | chat more https://kccnceu2022.sched.com/event/yttd?iframe=no
         | :))
         | 
         | With regards what you can do now - I've written a blog post
         | about my favourite hacks in GitLab a while ago, maybe there are
         | some features or workflows that are useful for your
         | environment:
         | https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2021/10/19/top-10-gitlab-hacks...
         | 
         | That said, GitLab 15.0 is around the corner, coming May 22.
         | https://about.gitlab.com/upcoming-releases/ I'm personally most
         | excited about the Podman support for GitLab runner, helping
         | with containerized CI/CD infrastructure as alternative to
         | Docker as executor.
         | 
         | The GitLab direction handbook provides more insights for future
         | plans: https://about.gitlab.com/direction/ Recommend diving
         | into the stages and review based on your requirements, or
         | potential new ideas and use cases. If you miss anything, please
         | open feature proposals to collaborate:
         | https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues Thanks :)
        
           | cabalamat wrote:
           | > In case you run your web app in a containerized stack, and
           | prefer to deploy to Kubernetes, the integration with the
           | Agent for Kubernetes has been greatly improved:
           | https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/clusters/agent/
           | 
           | I've never used Kubernetes, but have seen it described as a
           | PITA to set up and use, which is why I'm not keen on it.
        
         | nicoburns wrote:
         | It means that a big part Gitlab's offering is now things like
         | CI, whereas originally it was just code hosting.
        
           | afandian wrote:
           | They haven't sold them selves as 'just code hosting' for some
           | time. I almost wish they did. They've negleted basic stuff
           | yet their marketing sells them as an all-in-one solution. A
           | thousand dollars per seat per year (no fractions!) for the
           | WHOLE organization just for nested Epics? No thanks. This 2
           | year old thread just keeps on giving:
           | 
           | https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/213185
           | 
           | I'd join many participants in advising anyone to think very
           | carefully before adopting GitLab.
        
             | harabat wrote:
             | Would you be able to list some of the negative developments
             | you expect from GitLab going forward? For example, I know
             | they are reducing support for Free Tier on their managed
             | instance (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30791162).
             | Is that the kind of thing you're talking about?
             | 
             | What would you recommend instead? Gitea?
        
               | afandian wrote:
               | I should say that I respect and admire GitLab's pursuit
               | of financial sustainability and not selling themselves
               | too cheap. But the resulting culture, combined with the
               | actual product experience, is offputting.
               | 
               | The issue tracking and labelling system is fine for what
               | it is, but not good enough for planning projects. The
               | Epics and Milestones functionality appears thrown
               | together and isn't useful for much (we tried). Missing
               | features such as persistent links to milestones (links
               | are essentially a text string), lack of workflows ("You
               | can do anything! Just ... use labels"), Milestones lack a
               | change history, lack of nested Epics.
               | 
               | We want to be able to use confidential issues every now
               | and again, which mean that everyone in the org needs a
               | seat license to contribute or even view. If you want
               | nested Epics you have to jump from $240 /seat/year to
               | $1200 /seat/year for every single seat (hence the above
               | linked issue).
               | 
               | Fundamentally they are trying to be the "everything"
               | platform, and their sales material suggets that you can
               | drop subscriptions to all kinds of competitors. Our
               | experience was that the features weren't quite good
               | enough.
               | 
               | I don't necessarily expect things to get worse. I just
               | find that the tools aren't quite good enough to justify
               | the sales talk, and seeing them expand the breadth of
               | feature set without improving core stuff is
               | disappointing.
               | 
               | We're staying with GitLab for code and dev team, because
               | we're already there and we've built CI pipelines etc. But
               | moving to Jira for issue tracking and planning, and so
               | far it's much nicer.
               | 
               | EDIT: Just noticed that they closed the issue [0] with a
               | glib "opportunities to help customers derive more value
               | from GitLab".
               | 
               | [0] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/213185
        
               | nicoburns wrote:
               | > But moving to Jira for issue tracking and planning, and
               | so far it's much nicer.
               | 
               | Wow, Jira being better is really damning. FWIW, there's a
               | lot of competitors to Jira these days, and most of them
               | are much better. We're using Shortcut, and it's been
               | excellent.
        
               | afandian wrote:
               | Yeah we went into it with eyes open. I know "everyone
               | hates Jira".
               | 
               | We did evaluate Shortcut (formerly Clubhouse) and I did
               | talk to a sales engineer.
               | 
               | We weren't able to make our issues open to the public,
               | which was a serious blocker.
               | 
               | It wasn't clear how we would differentiate between user
               | stories, bug tracking, epics, planned work, etc. And how
               | to handle and track support and operational issues.
               | 
               | The response in the org (we're not all devs) has been
               | almost universally positive, and very favourable compared
               | to our GitLab issue-tracking experience.
        
           | abofh wrote:
           | Which is unfortunate, because outside of gitlab.com, I've
           | found gitlabs CI offering to be more unpleasant than any of
           | the competition in terms of "DevOps" implementation,
           | scalability and automation.
        
             | freddiecoleman wrote:
             | I'm amazed that more people aren't vocal about this. When I
             | was using Gitlab (last year) the pipelines seemed
             | unnecessarily complicated with knowledge of the underlying
             | implementation details sometimes being required to get
             | anything done. Almost every week we would hit some edge
             | case to be presented with a several year old thread on
             | Gitlab where loads of other people have the same problem
             | and it hasn't been addressed yet.
        
         | _joel wrote:
         | Not exactly gitlab but a cloud provider via
         | https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/topics/autodevops/index.html - bonus
         | is you get feature branch hosting if you want too. I've used it
         | and it worked well, even wrote an Elixir/Pheonix custom
         | buildpack (but most common frameworks supported)
        
       | lekevicius wrote:
       | Old logo was probably the cleverest rendering of a fox using very
       | few lines. The new logo is a lot less smart, much more standard.
       | Typography is also uninspiring: seems to be using Inter, which is
       | designed to not have any character (pun not intended). Although,
       | to be fair, old logo also had very basic typography.
        
         | jaimehrubiks wrote:
         | Wow you're right, old one is impressive, I like it much more,
         | and to me, it even resembles more a fox than the new one. Never
         | thought about how cool those few lines can represent a fox so
         | well and with personality.
         | 
         | Although I admit the concept and spirit of the new change makes
         | sense.
        
         | FooBarWidget wrote:
         | If Inter doesn't have character, then which font has character?
         | How does one pick a font that has character?
        
           | lekevicius wrote:
           | Any font that doesn't try to be neutral. Consider Cooper
           | Black, or Larken, or even the horrible Lobster. Even with
           | sans-serifs you can be more expressive, for instance Px
           | Grotesk.
        
         | postalrat wrote:
         | https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/Gitlab_l...
         | 
         | I hope that's the old logo you are talking about. Much smarter
         | than these new ones.
        
         | john_cogs wrote:
         | The GitLab logo/mascot is actually a tanuki, a Japanese racoon
         | dog. It symbolizes our values as a smart animal that works in a
         | group to achieve a common goal.
        
           | robotresearcher wrote:
           | Y'all are gonna get really bored of explaining that your dog-
           | like silhouette in distinctively fox colors is a brown
           | raccoon dog.
           | 
           | You might as well have a bright yellow circle to represent
           | the moon.
        
           | bogomipz wrote:
           | I believe the Tanuki are much more known in the symbolic
           | sense as mischevious and shapeshifting though no?[1] At least
           | in Japan, where they are native to. There always seems to be
           | one outside of an Izakaya with a flask of sake.[2]
           | 
           | [1] https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-tanuki-japan-s-
           | tri...
           | 
           | [2] https://www.alamy.com/ceramic-statues-of-two-bake-danuki-
           | tan...
        
           | lucideer wrote:
           | If the intent of the redesign was to make this more apparent,
           | it also failed in that goal. Old and new both look like a
           | fox.
           | 
           | Old(er) tanuki-like logo for comparison
           | https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gitlab-
           | artwork/-/blob/9b07772f...
        
             | xdennis wrote:
             | Not quite. The new one also looks like an evil owl. The old
             | one didn't have a beak.
        
             | andyonthewings wrote:
             | Wait, but the other image file is named fox.png?
             | https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gitlab-
             | artwork/-/blob/9b07772f...
        
               | fallat wrote:
               | That's pretty damn funny.
        
             | john_cogs wrote:
             | The intent of the redesign is for the logo to reflect
             | GitLab's place at the center of the DevOps infinity loop.
        
               | trash_human wrote:
               | Why not just do some play on an infinite loop then?
        
               | john_cogs wrote:
               | If you check out the post, you can see/read how it is a
               | play on an infinity loop.
        
           | atonse wrote:
           | Ah (totally serious comment, not intending to be insulting or
           | flippant): I always thought it was just a cheeky copy of
           | GitHub's Octocat, because that's how GitLab started too, an
           | open source implementation of GitHub.
           | 
           | Didn't know about this animal, pretty cool.
        
           | RL_Quine wrote:
           | Your logo is a fox to everyone though, doesn't really matter
           | what the intent was.
        
             | bitwize wrote:
             | No worries, the tanuki and kitsune (fox) are often
             | associated together, as friends or rivals, and have similar
             | folkloric powers and trickster natures. In fact in recent
             | Mario games, when he acquires a tanuki leaf, Luigi
             | transforms into a kitsune.
        
           | cityzen wrote:
           | Be honest, you picked it because Tanuki Mario is the best
           | Mario.
        
             | boleary-gl wrote:
             | ...I mean. It doesn't hurt ;)
        
           | bastardoperator wrote:
           | Not going to lie, I just learned moments ago it wasn't a fox,
           | and honestly looking at tanuki images on google, is still
           | looks more like a fox then it does a tanuki. For me it's the
           | colors throwing everything off.
        
         | SippinLean wrote:
        
         | tomtheelder wrote:
         | I was never a fan of the almost like gemstone like angularity
         | of the old one. For me the new one does a good job capturing
         | the spirit and the silhouette while just feeling a bit...
         | nicer. I don't really know how else to put it, it just feels a
         | lot more pleasant to look at.
        
           | usrusr wrote:
           | It's the opposite for me: the old one was playful with that
           | gem/animal in-between, whereas in the new one only the animal
           | part remains. And what's left of the gem-like lines makes it
           | an animal with a mean/aggressive expression on its face.
           | 
           | It's funny how a few simple lines can create so much opinion,
           | I certainly wouldn't want to imply that mine is more correct
           | or something like that. I'm actually surprised myself,
           | because if I was told "much like the old one, but with some
           | curves replacing angularity" I certainly wouldn't have
           | expected that outcome.
        
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       | marsven_422 wrote:
        
       | tosh wrote:
       | I like that it feels more organic (?) and friendly but still
       | recognizable because it is close enough to the previous one.
        
         | oaiey wrote:
         | Friendly ... for me the new logo has anger in it. The old one
         | was without emotion.
        
       | rkimb wrote:
       | People hate change, and this one is very incremental. Without the
       | press release I doubt I would've noticed.
        
       | zokier wrote:
       | So, rounded corners, huh?
        
       | aendruk wrote:
       | Old logo for comparison:
       | 
       | https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gitlab-artwork/-/blob/9b07772f...
       | 
       | Bonus:
       | 
       | https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gitlab-artwork/-/blob/9b07772f...
        
         | remram wrote:
         | I read the article and still don't understand what the new logo
         | is. Did they just round the sides? Is it the start frame of
         | that animation, with the [?] symbol?
        
           | CollinEMac wrote:
           | The outside edges are softer and the interior lines are
           | different. The new one has less lines overall and has more of
           | the deep red-orange color.
        
       | pyrophane wrote:
       | Anyone have experience with gitlab's Auto-DevOps stuff? Haven't
       | really had an opportunity to use it (I do use their CI product)
       | but am curious how people who've tried it find it.
        
         | Dayshine wrote:
         | I just don't understand what it is even supposed to be. We have
         | what should be the simplest pipeline ever with dotnet. It could
         | be three lines, dotnet test, dotnet publish, then create the
         | docker image.
         | 
         | But it doesn't seem to support dotnet.
         | 
         | Oh, so maybe it can automatically rebuild our docker images?
         | No, that's not what they mean by auto either.
         | 
         | How about tests? No, they only support JUnit format with a
         | terrible ui. And no history.
         | 
         | Coverage or code quality? No, not really.
         | 
         | Github on the other hand has one click pipeline actions.
        
         | laughingbovine wrote:
         | It's scary having the CI/CD magically figure out what to do for
         | you purely based on the files in your repo. I bet it would save
         | a lot of time if you were actually able to use it for
         | everything in your company. I'd rather write my own CI, which I
         | do in Gitlab CI.
        
       | [deleted]
        
       | atonse wrote:
       | Ohhhhhhhh it just dawned on me that when GitLab says "DevOps" -
       | they aren't confusingly saying "terraform, etc" type DevOps
       | (Developer/Operations tasks combined), which is actually what
       | everyone else means.
       | 
       | I think they mean "the operations around running a development
       | shop" ... like "Developer Operations."
       | 
       | Silly, but makes so much of their random language about DevOps
       | actually make sense now.
        
       | stayux wrote:
       | Is this a new Firefox service? Hey, I can create a real corporate
       | identity for you. After a serious research and thousands of
       | variants. It is cheap: only 200k USD.:)
       | 
       | Now, a question: Why established IT companies rarely understand
       | the importance of the words "Identity" and "Brand
       | Differentiation"?
        
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