Setup

Setting up GitLab

Installing GitLab

Ansible Installation

After running Ansible, note that the current play does not contain settings for SMTP. To set up SMTP, in /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb, find the following configuration settings, uncomment the lines and set their values to the ones below:

gitlab_rails['smtp_enable'] = true
gitlab_rails['smtp_address'] = "mail.tjhsst.edu"
gitlab_rails['smtp_port'] = 22

After saving these settings to gitlab.rb, apply these settings using gitlab-ctl reconfigure.

Manual Installation

In this method, never execute gitlab-ctl reconfigure unless specifically stated to.

Manual setup can be found on GitLab's website here. However, the only commands you need to run successively are as follows:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y curl openssh-server ca-certificates
sudo apt-get install -y postfix
curl https://packages.gitlab.com/install/repositories/gitlab/gitlab-ee/script.deb.sh | sudo bash
sudo EXTERNAL_URL="http://gitlab.tjhsst.edu" apt-get install gitlab-ee

After running these commands, head to /etc/gitlab/

1. Locate gitlab.rb in the ansible repository under roles/gitlab/files

2. In /etc/gitlab executesudo mv gitlab.rb gitlab-OLD.rb

3. Copy the Ansible version of gitlab.rb into /etc/gitlab.

Initial Configuration

Make sure you ran gitlab-ctl reconfigure after editing gitlab.rbas instructed in previous steps to apply all changes. This usually takes 30 seconds to 3 minutes depending on the settings.

Initial Login

After initial setup, log in using the Standard option as root, with the default GitLab password. Immediately change this to a more secure password in line with CSL standards.

Removing Standard and Sign-Up options

On initial login, note how there were three possible options: LDAP, Standard, and Sign-Up. As we do not use the Standard and Sign-Up options, it is necessary to remove them by following the steps below:

1. Head to the Admin Options, an icon depicting a wrench links here

2. On the left sidebar, find the Settings option and open the page.

3. Locate the respective check boxes under the Sign-up and Sign-in drop-downs.

The exact naming of the drop-downs and check-boxes are omitted as they have historically changed with versions.

When Standard and Sign-Up are missing from the login page leaving LDAP, configuration is done.