GitLab
Administration
Here are notes on running your own gitlab instance.
Terms
- unicorn - this is the web server portion of gitlab
- sidekiq - the background job processor
Basic Commands
sudo gitlab-ctl start sudo gitlab-ctl stop sudo gitlab-ctl restart
LFS
Edit the config in /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb and set the following:
### Git LFS
gitlab_rails['lfs_enabled'] = true
gitlab_rails['lfs_storage_path'] = "/var/opt/gitlab/gitlab-rails/shared/lfs-objects"
# gitlab_rails['lfs_object_store_enabled'] = false
# gitlab_rails['lfs_object_store_direct_upload'] = false
# gitlab_rails['lfs_object_store_background_upload'] = true
# gitlab_rails['lfs_object_store_proxy_download'] = false
# gitlab_rails['lfs_object_store_remote_directory'] = "lfs-objects"
# gitlab_rails['lfs_object_store_connection'] = {
# 'provider' => 'AWS',
# 'region' => 'eu-west-1',
# 'aws_access_key_id' => 'AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID',
# 'aws_secret_access_key' => 'AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY',
# # # The below options configure an S3 compatible host instead of AWS
# # 'aws_signature_version' => 4 # For creation of signed URLs. Set to 2 if provider does not support v4.
# # 'endpoint' => 'https://s3.amazonaws.com' # default: nil - Useful for S3 compliant services such as DigitalOcean Spaces
# # 'host' => 's3.amazonaws.com',
# # 'path_style' => false # Use 'host/bucket_name/object' instead of 'bucket_name.host/object'
# }