Gitlab

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• archlinux wiki

Installation

1. install and configure PostgreSQL

sudo pacman gitlab

/etc/webapps/gitlab/gitlab.yml

host: gitlab.domain.net port: 443 https: true

Secret string

Fill the following files with a secret:

hexdump -v -n 64 -e '1/1 "%02x"' /dev/urandom | sudo dd of=/etc/webapps/gitlab/secret sudo chmod 640 /etc/webapps/gitlab/secret hexdump -v -n 64 -e '1/1 "%02x"' /dev/urandom | sudo dd of=/etc/webapps/gitlab-shell/secret sudo chmod 640 /etc/webapps/gitlab-shell/secret

Set secrets in the following configuration file:

/etc/webapps/gitlab/secrets.yml

production: secret_key_base: [secret] db_key_base: [secret] otp_key_base: [secret] openid_connect_signing_key: [secret]

Redis

# Add user gitlab to group redis cat /etc/group | grep redis sudo gpasswd -a gitlab redis

/etc/webapps/gitlab/resque.yml

development: url: unix:/run/redis/redis.sock test: url: unix:/run/redis/redis.sock production: url: unix:/run/redis/redis.sock

PostgreSQL database

# switch to the PostgreSQL user sudo -iu postgres # create a user named gitlab with superuser rights createuser --interactive # login into the databases server psql # change the password of the gitlab user \password gitlab # create the database create database gitlabdb OWNER gitlab;

/var/lib/postgres/data/pg_hba.conf

# TYPE DATABASE USER METHOD local gitlabdb gitlab scram-sha-256

# login as gitlab psql -U gitlab -d gitlabdb

/etc/webapps/gitlab/database.yml

production: main: adapter: postgresql encoding: unicode database: gitlabdb username: gitlab password: [password] host: localhost