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GitLab Quick Start Guide
GitLab Quick Start Guide

GitLab Quick Start Guide: Migrate to GitLab for all your repository management solutions

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GitLab Quick Start Guide

Setting Up GitLab

As discussed in the previous chapter, GitLab can be used both as a self-managed or as a SaaS offering through GitLab.com. We also discussed the reasons for and against both methods regarding getting started with GitLab. We'll start this chapter by running through the requirements of GitLab, and in particular what you need in terms of hardware and software to run your own installation. The onnibus package and its installation on Ubuntu and CentOS will be investigated, as well as manual installations for people who can't install the omnibus package. We'll also look at a few ways of setting up an installation, as well as how to set up an account on your new installation or on GitLab.com. In particular, we'll cover the following topics:

  • Requirements
  • Omnibus installation on Ubuntu
  • Omnibus installation on CentOS
  • Manual installation on Ubuntu
  • Setting...

Requirements

Let's take a quick look at what operating system and hardware you will need to get GitLab up and running.

Hardware

In general, you'll want a minimum of two physical CPU cores to handle about 500 total users. This is feasible with one core, but you'll have the workers and background jobs running on the same core, which might slow things down. Above that, four cores will support about 2,000 users, and if you need any more than 40,000 users (which will run fine on 64 cores), you should probably look at running multiple application servers at once.

For memory, the recommendation is 2 GB of RAM, which will easily support 100 users with no issue. 1 GB of physical memory with 1 GB of swap space is probably...

Omnibus on Ubuntu/Debian

To install GitLab using the omnibus package on an Ubuntu or Debian system, make sure that you have a server with one of the following versions installed on it:

  • Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
  • Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
  • Debian 7
  • Debian 8
  • Debian 9

While the installation may work on other systems, it isn't guaranteed.

First, you'll need to connect to a Terminal session, update your package lists, and make sure that a few key packages are installed by running the following commands:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y curl openssh-server ca-certificates

Next, you'll need to decide whether you want to use Postfix to send notification emails or an external SMTP provider. While the latter is recommended, if you do plan to use Postfix, you'll need to install it like so:

sudo apt-get install -y postfix

During the installation of Postfix, a...

Omnibus on CentOS/RHEL/Scientific Linux/Oracle Linux

To install GitLab using the omnibus package on a CentOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Scientific Linux, or Oracle Linux system, make sure that you have a server with a base that's compatible with CentOS 7.

First, you'll need to connect to a Terminal session and make sure that a few key packages are installed by running the following commands:

sudo yum install -y curl policycoreutils-python openssh-server

Now, you'll need to allow HTTP and SSH traffic through the local device firewall. This can be done by running the following code lines:

sudo systemctl enable sshd
sudo systemctl start sshd
sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=http
sudo systemctl reload firewalld

Next, you'll need to decide on whether you want to use Postfix to send notification emails or external SMTP provider. While the latter is...

Manual installation

There are some situations where you won't be able to use an omnibus package to install GitLab, potentially if you want to use your own existing hardware, existing server software, or your own database. In these cases, you can do a manual installation of GitLab, which we will run through in this section. Please be aware that it is a more complicated process, and using the omnibus installation package is recommended if possible.

Initial packages

There are some initial packages you'll need to install before you even think about language runtimes. Many might be available through your chosen operating system's package manager, otherwise you might need to source them from the net. The current list...

Setting up HTTPS

Security-conscious readers may have picked up that we're only using insecure HTTP, which might be fine for local installs or air-gapped networks, but if you're running on a cloud server, want to protect your server from man-in-the-middle attacks, or just want to follow best practices, I've outlined two ways that you can implement HTTPS. The first involves the free Let's Encrypt SSL provider and the second one is an option if you have your own certificates ready to go.

Let's Encrypt

GitLab comes with the ability to automatically fetch and renew certificates from Let's Encrypt for the primary domain and the container registry for you. To get this running, you just need to specify...

Creating accounts on GitLab

Whether you've decided to create your own instance of GitLab or sign up via GitLab.com, you'll need to create a personal account. This is super simple to do: you just need to browse to https://gitlab.com/users/sign_in (replacing gitlab.com with your own instance hostname) and select Register.

From here, you need to supply a name, username, email, and password, accept the terms and conditions, and then register. You'll be sent an email with a confirmation link that you can click on to finish activating your account.

Now, you should be ready to move on to the next chapter and explore the GitLab workflow.

Summary

In this chapter, we explored the requirements of GitLab and discovered what systems it can run on. We noted down the required RAM, CPU, storage space, operating system, and software components/frameworks.

We ran through installing and configuring GitLab. We looked at setting up the omnibus package, which is an all-in-one option for getting up and running with GitLab on Ubuntu, CentOS, and their related operating systems.

For people who aren't able to run the Omnibus package, we also ran through a manual installation.

Lastly, we explored creating an account on GitLab.com or a self-managed GitLab instance.

In the next chapter, we'll discover more about git and the workflow that's recommended for projects that are using it. We'll also go through the GitLab workflow, an alternative that was presented by GitLab as the preferred way to work with git projects...

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Key benefits

  • Effective guide for GitLab migration from GitHub and SVN
  • Learn to implement DevOps with GitLab 11
  • Manage projects with issue boards and time tracking

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Gitlab is an open source repository management and version control toolkit with an enterprise offering. This book is the ideal guide to GitLab as a version control system (VCS), issue management tool, and a continuous integration platform. The book starts with an introduction to GitLab, a walkthrough of its features, and explores concepts such as version control systems, continuous integration, and continuous deployment. It then takes you through the process of downloading and installing a local copy of the on-premise version of GitLab in Ubuntu and/or CentOS. You will look at some common work?ows associated with GitLab work?ow and learn about project management in GitLab. You will see tools and techniques for migrating your code base from various version control systems such as GitHub and SVN to GitLab. By the end of the book, you will be using Gitlab for repository management, and be able to migrate projects from other VCSs to GitLab.

Who is this book for?

The book is intended for the developers, SREs, and DevOps professionals who are looking for techniques to port their codebase to GitLab from GitHub or are looking to work with GitLab as their version control system of choice. If you've used other VCSs before, that will help with this book.

What you will learn

  • Set up CI and test builds for your projects
  • Understand the benefits and limitations of GitLab work?ow
  • Migrate from other common VCS platforms to Gitlab
  • Create, review, and merge code changes
  • Learn to branch local code and create a new branch in GitLab
  • Configure sequential stages and simultaneous stages for CI/CD
  • Access Mattermost for on-premise GitLab
  • Discover the issue tracking features of GitLab
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Setting Up GitLab Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
GitLab Flow Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Issues to Merge Requests Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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