Why gitlab? GitHub actions are a mess but gitlab online's ci cd is not much better at all, and for self hosted it opens a whole different can of worms. At least with GitHub actions you have a plugin ecosystem that makes the super janky underlying platform a bit more bearable.
I've found GitLab CI's "DAG of jobs" model has made maintenance and, crucially for us, optimisation relatively easy. Then I look into GitHub Actions and... where are the abstraction tools? How do I cache just part of my "workflow"? Plugins be damned. GitLab CI is so good that I'm willing to overlook vendor lock-in and YAML, and use it for our GitHub project even without proper integration. (Frankly the rest of GitLab seems to always be a couple features ahead, but no-one's willing to migrate.)
Mhmm that's actually a good point!! I didn't realize that I couldn't do that with GitHub, I never really used partial caching. I just had a lot (a looot) of issues with our kubernetes runner (which I even made sure to be as close to the vanilla docs example as possible). I guess the grass is always greener on the other side :)
