Changing GitLab in a Kubernetes environment

Since GitLab for Kubernetes is configured by Helm charts, you need to configure all settings through that.

The options can be found here: https://gitlab.com/charts/gitlab/blob/master/doc/installation/command-line-options.md.

For each set of options, some are required, and those that are not required have a default value.

In the next section, we will pick some of the options to change in a Kubernetes environment.

Basic configuration

There are two required settings here: global.hosts.domain and global.hosts.externalIP. These should point to the host and IP where GitLab is to be served from. Another interesting set of these are as follows:

• global.psql.host
• global.psql.password.secret...