The Consul outage that never happened
This was a fascinating read but I feel like I’m left with some more questions about what’s going on under the hood in gitlab cloud:<p>1. I thought gitlab was hosted in google cloud, but there’s a lot of references to e.g., a hand rolled consensus system and self-managed database clusters. I’m wondering if this event changes the math on build vs. buy at all for gitlab, sounds like a lot of money has gone into this solution.  How did that solution come up, is it about some specific Postgres features that aren’t available in googles hosted dbs or pricing?<p>2. Again on the google cloud angle, why are servers being hand-managed and rebooted?  Elasticity in the cloud would make me think that the safest option would be to stand up parallel infrastructure (like in a DR plan) and migrate traffic. Was this just about speed of solution rollout?  Does gitlab have plans to harden DR plans so that you can execute in cases like this?  Whenever someone says they’re “in the cloud” and yet unable to treat servers like cattle, I get a bit worried.