We’re excited to announce the launch of Logical Awesome’s latest product: GitHub:Firewall Install
What Is it?
GitHub:FI is a version of GitHub that can be installed within your own private network. This product is ideal for your company if you wish to enjoy the benefits of GitHub, but are unable to do so because of corporate restrictions or laws that prevent you from hosting your code with a third-party service.
How Does It Work?
We’ve partnered with BitRock, the packaging and deployment specialists, to create a comprehensive installer and to deliver seamless product updates. Together, we’ve managed to make the installation process as painless as possible: download the installer, answer a few questions, and your internal GitHub stack is running in about 10 minutes. It’s really that simple!
We currently only support Linux-based operating systems, but we may add additional support based upon demand.
How Did We Build It?
The FI stack is remarkably similar to the one in use at GitHub.com. The primary difference is that the FI source code is compiled and run with JRuby inside of a Jetty container instead of our normal Ruby/Mongrel stack. Beyond that, FI looks and acts just like the site you’ve come to know and love. You’ll still benefit from the same robust, scalable architecture that powers GitHub.com, which means you never have to worry about how many users your FI install can handle (we handle nearly 100,000).
How Much Does It Cost?
GitHub:FI pricing is quoted individually per installation based on your company’s needs and support requirements. Please keep in mind that FI is priced competitively with other internal code management solutions and is well over the cost of our most-expensive hosted plan.
What About Support?
We provide two levels of support: Standard and Premium. Standard support is included free-of-charge for the first year of service, providing Help Desk support, Email support, and Knowledge Base access. Premium support comes at an additional cost and provides your company the ability to get in touch with our technical staff over the phone. If you encounter a problem that is inherent in the product, we’ll do everything in our power to respond immediately, regardless of support plan. Other issues are prioritized and addressed accordingly.
I Want to Get a Quote!
Head to http://fi.github.com for additional information, a screencast detailing the installation and features of GitHub:FI, and to request a quote for your company!
Congratulations on the new product, folks, I'm thrilled that it's running on JRuby and immediately thought of my past employers and the hassle they had administering SCM. It's an excellent idea.
Great job. I know a lot of people have been wanting this.
Curious how the JRuby port went; did you have to alter the codebase much to make it work?
That's great guys!!!
Good luck =)
FYI, the 877.GITHUB.1 number you list on the site says it's disconnected :(
Maybe this is a stupid question, but is this strictly for use behind the firewall? Or could you use it as part of a larger service and expose it to people remotely? Can it be custom branded?
This makes a lot of sense and I think is a great case for JRuby. I also think it is interesting github chose to partner with BitRock, this is an interesting service that could be of use to lots of web application providers that might want to support behind the firewall and hosted distribution.
You say that it is well over the cost of the most expensive hosted plan. Those plans are monthly fees though. Is FI a monthly fee or do you mean something like it is well over the cost of a month of the highest plan? A year? A lifetime?
Interested to hear about all the wonderful gem's you guys are distributing all "bundled" up as well or the licenses of those... but I'm sure you guys are 1337 h4x0rs enough to just rewrite them all as "Github Flavored".
Personally, I'll stick with Gitorious and try to submit bugs and features to the open source project for the community, which interestingly enough, you guys host! :D
Looking forward to it -- this sounds exactly what the company I work for is looking for. Github, but internal. Perfect. Great idea & perfect timing!
Very interesting article.
Many thanks for the share of the information.
Thanks,
Andreas
http://www.seoprom.de
Support for Pages, Gist, and API.v2?
thanks for posting, what sort of cost is this?
It does seem to be a great firewall. I wonder where I can buy this product. I couldn't even find it at Newegg.