Installing Gitlab CE with Ansible

Gitlab CE

Using https://github.com/geerlingguy/ansible-role-gitlab/ in order to build my own.

Change the enviroment varialbes within the defaults folder. Include cert files if you have them.

Runners

Once Gitlab is up and running, found in https://domain.com/admin, on the left hand side under CI/CD, Runners. Using the button, New Instance Runner, pick the installation that suits your method the best. When the runner is done and setup, Gitlab will give you a command that needs to be ran on the runner machine directly. A self signed cert will not work, the runner install will fail. Otherwise, follow the prompts to install.

Commands

Restart Gitlab

sudo gitlab-ctl restart

Status of Gitlab

sudo gitlab-ctl status

Restart NGINX

sudo gitlab-ctl restart nginx

Reconfigure Gitlab

After the gitlab.rb file has been modified, Gitlab needs to be reconfigured to see the changes. This only applies for Linux installs.

sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure

Kill Components

After running the status, sometimes the components will time out. Look in the logs for timeout. Kill the service and then restart should function normally.

sudo gitlab-ctl kill <service>