GitLab Omnibus project

This project creates full-stack platform-specific packages for GitLab!

Installation

Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install openssh-server
sudo apt-get install postfix # sendmail or exim is also OK
sudo dpkg -i gitlab-x.y.z.deb # this is the .deb you downloaded
sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure

How to manage an Omnibus-installed GitLab

Administrative commands

You can make configuration changes by editing /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb and /etc/gitlab/gitlab-secrets.json, followed by running

sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure

To start/stop a component of GitLab run e.g. sudo gitlab-ctl stop sidekiq. To permanently disable e.g. Sidekiq, add sidekiq['enable'] = false to /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb, and run sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure for the change to take effect.

To invoke a GitLab rake task, use gitlab-rake. For example:

sudo gitlab-rake gitlab:backup:create

There is no need to change the user or the RAILS_ENV environment variable; this is taken care of by the gitlab-rake wrapper script.

Directory structure

Omnibus-gitlab uses four different directories.

• /opt/gitlab holds application code for GitLab and its dependencies.
• /var/opt/gitlab holds application data and configuration files that gitlab-ctl reconfigure writes too.
• /etc/gitlab holds configuration files for omnibus-gitlab. These are the only files that you should ever have to edit manually.
• /var/log/gitlab contains all log data generated by components of omnibus-gitlab.

Building your own package

See (doc/build.md).