Why use this service, rather than a service like GitHub or BitBucket?

The service we provide is a GitLab instance which targets persons and groups who:

• Need one place to host public and private repositories
• Prefer the corresponding data to stay in the Nordics and remain under an academic governance
• Prefer a service not backed by a for-profit company
• Host their code on local hard drives and look for a better place to host and collaborate but prefer the code to remain private
• Run their own GitLab service or other repository hosting server but struggle to keep it up to date and backed up

GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab.com, and similar services are popular code repository hosting services. If you already use them, please continue to do so! They allow hosting public repositories and to some extent also private repositories. They may offer higher visibility and discoverability than the instance offered by our project.

Who can use this service?

Students, researchers, and staff affiliated with a Nordic academic institution. If you are not sure whether you can use the system, please contact support@coderefinery.org.   Your collaborators outside the Nordics can join your projects but cannot create new projects. Ask them to register and then you can add them to your projects or groups as collaborators. No need to ask us or inform us in order to add external collaborators.

You need to be first enabled before you can create projects and groups

Newly signed-in users need to first be enabled before they can create projects and groups. This is to prevent abuse.

Please follow these steps:

• Register your user account using your university email account.
• Then write an email to support@coderefinery.org where you state your affiliation and in one or two sentences (or more) describe briefly why you would like to use this service and how you plan to use this service.
• If you do not receive a confirmation email after signing up, you are possibly auto-blocked (we do this to prevent spam registrations). In this case please send an email to support@coderefinery.org and we unblock you. Please also check your spam folder, though.
• If you sign in as part of a course, please ask your course organizer to write to us and send us a list of all students to be enabled. This is to avoid getting the same request 20-30 times within a day or two.
• We will then promptly enable your account.

How about federated access such as Feide or HAKA or eduGAIN or Kalmar2?

We support sign in with eduGAIN. Otherwise you need a specific user account for this instance. We recommend creating an account with the email address your identity federation gives you, as this will make it easier to enable other federated access providers seamlessly.  

Is there a data limit per project?

Currently no limit is enforced but we recommend less than 100 MB per project. This should really be for code and not for persistent storage of data. If you use more, we may contact you. If you need more, please contact us and motivate why you need more and we will see what we can do about it. If you have a good motivation, you will probably get a larger soft limit.

Can I serve GitLab pages?

Yes! GitLab pages now serve via *.pages.coderefinery.org. Currently only HTTP. TLS is in the works.

Does the service include shared continuous integration runners?

No, shared runners are not part of the offering but you can connect your own CI runners to your projects for automated tests and builds.

SSH key fingerprints

Public key fingerprints can be used to validate a connection to a remote server.

These are the public key fingerprints for source.coderefinery.org (in hexadecimal format):

MD5:b8:c9:43:24:33:96:ba:5d:88:84:73:81:38:ac:e6:0f (RSA)
MD5:21:dc:4e:ef:4f:1c:44:f8:d8:5e:3a:30:15:32:e3:4c (ECDSA)
MD5:57:3f:dd:7e:52:5a:83:ec:68:7e:c9:58:d3:f2:21:c4 (ED25519)

These are the SHA256 hashes:

SHA256:dQ6iP+E6PZ2Ureynaw1eGKqRLJ5RtL4C7qUJlNSvLW8 (RSA)
SHA256:dtWo53mvtXVv3NxZf44kpRIfvJ8edcEqv7HFEltPpa4 (ECDSA)
SHA256:6vV2a0zfcMuls1KkGlzbrJPQP5yC+z5v+2pKtGMNx8Y (ED25519)

How to check these without logging in:

$ ssh-keyscan source.coderefinery.org | ssh-keygen -E md5 -lf -
$ ssh-keyscan source.coderefinery.org | ssh-keygen -lf -