README.md

What is GitLab?
===============

GitLab offers git repository management, code reviews, issue tracking, activity feeds, wikis. It has LDAP/AD integration, handles 25,000 users on a single server but can also run on a highly available active/active cluster. A subscription gives you access to our support team and to GitLab Enterprise Edition that contains extra features aimed at larger organizations.

<https://about.gitlab.com>

![GitLab Logo](https://gitlab.com/uploads/appearance/logo/1/brand_logo-c37eb221b456bb4b472cc1084480991f.png)


How to use this image
======================

At this moment GitLab doesn't have official Docker images.
Build your own based on the Omnibus packages with the following command (it assumes you're in the GitLab repo root directory):

```bash
sudo docker build --tag gitlab_image docker/
```

We assume using a data volume container, this will simplify migrations and backups.
This empty container will exist to persist as volumes the 3 directories used by GitLab, so remember not to delete it.

The directories on data container are:

- `/var/opt/gitlab` for application data
- `/var/log/gitlab` for logs
- `/etc/gitlab` for configuration

Create the data container with:

```bash
sudo docker run --name gitlab_data gitlab_image /bin/true
```

After creating this run GitLab:

```bash
sudo docker run --detach --name gitlab_app --publish 8080:80 --publish 2222:22 --volumes-from gitlab_data gitlab_image
```

It might take a while before the docker container is responding to queries.

You can then go to `http://localhost:8080/` (or `http://192.168.59.103:8080/` if you use boot2docker). Next time, you can just use `sudo docker start gitlab_app` and `sudo docker stop gitlab_app`.


How to configure GitLab
========================

This container uses the official Omnibus GitLab distribution, so all configuration is done in the unique configuration file `/etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb`.

To access GitLab configuration, you can start a new container using the shared data volume container:

	docker run -ti --rm --volumes-from gitlab_data ubuntu vi /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb

**Note** that GitLab will reconfigure itself **at each container start.** You will need to restart the container to reconfigure your GitLab.

You can find all available options in [Omnibus GitLab documentation](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/blob/master/README.md#configuration).

Troubleshooting
=========================
Please see the [troubleshooting](troubleshooting.md) file in this directory.