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Add to SafariWhen comparing Kiln vs Google Cloud Source Repositories, the Slant community recommends Kiln for most people. In the question“What are the best hosted version control services?” Kiln is ranked 4th while Google Cloud Source Repositories is ranked 8th. The most important reason people chose Kiln is:
Kiln offers you an option between HTTPS and SSH for security.
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Pros
Pro SSH support
Kiln offers you an option between HTTPS and SSH for security.
Pro User permissions features
With Kiln, teams can be created and individual users can be given different kinds of access to the repositories, this allows for a much tighter security.
Pro Free tier
Cloud Source Repositories is free for up to 5 project-users per billing account. The free tier comes with up to 50GB free storage total and 50GB free egress per month.
Pro Excellent security
Everything is stored encrypted in Google's datacenters. You can give fine grained control to other Google accounts and collaborate.
Pro Integrated with other Google Cloud Platform services
Trigger deployments or create custom integrations using Google Cloud Pub/Sub, deploy directly to App Engine or Cloud Functions, and use Cloud Build for CI. Check out code securely (Service Accounts) from your Cloud Compute instances or Container Engine images. View logs in Stackdriver.
Cons
Con Non-free
Kiln is not free, but it has the option for two users to try it for free first.
Con No inline editing
Unlike some other popular repositories, there is no way to edit inline directly from the source browser. Although, you can easily open up a Theia-based IDE in the browser to edit and run your code by clicking the "Open in Cloud Shell" button. You will still have to commit your changes from the Cloud Shell command line, though.
Con Markdown styling is not as good as GitHub or GitLab
Your README files will not render as nicely as GitHub and GitLab, which may irritate you if you're migrating your repos with nicely-formatted docs.
Con Must set-up billing account
For all Google Cloud Platform projects you must enable Billing. This isn't uncommon for cloud hosting providers but it still could be considered a CON.
