"Host your own GitHub" using Gitlab and Dokku

Git does not require a singular centralized repository and embraces decentralization. I like how hosting your own repository is embraced by the overall design of git. "Host your own Github" should most definitely be the norm vs having a github/sourceforge/google code that everyone relies on being up. I wish that everyone running their own repositories while pulling directly from others was the defacto standard, that way no one can use the excuse "$repository / $service is down I'll submit it later".

For those interested on an alternative Gitlab install, someone contributed this using Vagrant and Puppet: <a href="https://community.exoscale.ch/compute/tutorials/devtools/deploy-gitlab-on-ubuntu-1204-with-vagrant/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;community.exoscale.ch&#x2F;compute&#x2F;tutorials&#x2F;devtools&#x2F;dep...</a><p>Can be provisioned on any supported Vagrant destination, not only ours.

Why even use Dokku? There&#x27;s an off-the-shelf Gitlab image on DigitalOcean that works just great.

GitLab B.V. CEO here, please let me know if there are any questions.

I like the idea of hosting my own web-accessible repository, but am most familiar with Mercurial. Does GitLab support non-Git repositories, or is there an alternative that does?

Gitlab seems to be another one of those &quot;half-open&quot; source projects where an arbitrary set of features is only available in the &quot;Enterprise&quot; edition. - <a href="https://www.gitlab.com/gitlab-ee/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gitlab.com&#x2F;gitlab-ee&#x2F;</a>