How do I use my GitLab server?

1. In the panel, open My servers and click your server.
2. On the Overview tab, wait for the App row to say "GitLab is ready". The page refreshes itself.
3. Open the link in the Site address row and sign in with the details from the Login and Password rows.

First steps

1. Create your first project with New project.
2. Add your SSH key from your profile. Git uses port 22.

CI/CD

To run jobs you need to install GitLab Runner. Installing it on the same server strains memory, so a separate small server is recommended.

Good to know

• New account sign-up is turned off during installation. To turn it on, select Admin at the top right, then go to Settings, General, New user account restrictions.
• GitLab's docs take 16 GB as the baseline for a single server and give at least 8 GB for memory-constrained installs. This install keeps Puma and Sidekiq small and turns monitoring off. It adds no swap, as the docs recommend keeping swap off. The settings are in /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb.
• For disk, the docs ask for 40 GB plus the total size of your repositories.
• After changing a setting, run gitlab-ctl reconfigure.

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