Manually Deploying GitLab (CentOS 7.2)
Overview
The best practices for Huawei Cloud ECS guide you through the manual deployment of GitLab on a Linux ECS. GitLab is an open-source version management system that uses Git as the code management tool. The CentOS 7.2 64bit OS is used as an example in this section.
Prerequisites
- The memory of the target ECS is greater than or equal to 4 GB.
- The rule listed in the following table has been added to the security group to which the target ECS belongs. For details, see Adding a Security Group Rule.
Table 1 Security group rule Transfer Direction
Protocol/Application
Port/Range
Source End
Inbound
HTTP (80)
80
0.0.0.0/0
Procedure
- Install the dependency package.
- Install Postfix to send emails.
- Add the GitLab repository and install the software package.
- Run the following command to add the GitLab repository:
curl https://packages.gitlab.com/install/repositories/gitlab/gitlab-ee/script.rpm.sh | sudo bash
- Run the following command to install GitLab:
sudo EXTERNAL_URL="http://gitlab.example.com" yum install -y gitlab-ee
Set EXTERNAL_URL to the IP address of the GitLab server, which can be the public IP address of the server or the domain name.
- After the command is executed, you can view the software download speed and the estimated download completion time in the command output.
- If the download speed is slow, obtain the response IP addresses of github.com at http://tool.chinaz.com/dns and select the IP address with a smaller TTL value. Then add the local DNS resolution to the hosts file on the target ECS.
If information similar to the following is displayed, GitLab has been installed:
Running handlers: Running handlers complete Chef Client finished, 452/672 resources updated in 01 minutes 38 seconds gitlab Reconfigured! *. *. *** *** ***** ***** .****** ******* ******** ******** ,,,,,,,,,***********,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,*********,,,,,,,,,,, .,,,,,,,,,,,*******,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,*****,,,,,,,,,. ,,,,,,,****,,,,,, .,,,***,,,, ,*,. _______ __ __ __ / ____(_) /_/ / ____ _/ /_ / / __/ / __/ / / __ `/ __ \ / /_/ / / /_/ /___/ /_/ / /_/ / \____/_/\__/_____/\__,_/_.___/ Thank you for installing GitLab!
- Run the following command to add the GitLab repository:
- Test the GitLab deployment.
- Enter http://Server IP address in the address bar. If the following page is displayed, GitLab has been set up.
- Change the password upon your first login. Then, enter the new password to log in.
- Enter http://Server IP address in the address bar. If the following page is displayed, GitLab has been set up.
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