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. Learn more on https://about.gitlab.com

After starting a container you can go to http://localhost:8080/ or http://192.168.59.103:8080/ if you use boot2docker.

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

You can check the status with something like sudo docker logs -f 7c10172d7705.

You can login to the web interface with username root and password 5iveL!fe.

Next time, you can just use docker start and stop to run the container.

This guide will also let you know how to build docker images yourself. Please run all the commands from the GitLab repo root directory. People using boot2docker should run all the commands without sudo.

Normally docker uses a single image for one applications. But GitLab stores repositories and uploads in the filesystem. This means that upgrades of a single image are hard. That is why we recommend using separate app and data images. We'll first describe how to use a single image. After that we'll describe how to use the app and data images.

Get a published image from Dockerhub:

sudo docker pull sytse/gitlab-ce:7.10.1

Run the image:

sudo docker run --detach --publish 8080:80 --publish 2222:22 sytse/gitlab-ce:7.10.1

After this you can login to the web interface as explained above in 'After starting a container'.

Build the image:

sudo docker build --tag sytse/gitlab-ce:7.10.1 docker/single/

Publish the image to Dockerhub:

sudo docker push sytse/gitlab-ce

Diagnosing commands:

sudo docker run -i -t sytse/gitlab-ce:7.10.1
sudo docker run -ti -e TERM=linux --name gitlab-ce-troubleshoot --publish 8080:80 --publish 2222:22 sytse/gitlab-ce:7.10.1 bash /usr/local/bin/wrapper

sudo docker pull sytse/gitlab-data
sudo docker pull sytse/gitlab-app:7.10.1

sudo docker run --name gitlab-data sytse/gitlab-data /bin/true
sudo docker run --detach --name gitlab-app --publish 8080:80 --publish 2222:22 --volumes-from gitlab-data sytse/gitlab-app:7.10.1

After this you can login to the web interface as explained above in 'After starting a container'.

Build your own based on the Omnibus packages with the following commands.

sudo docker build --tag gitlab-data docker/data/
sudo docker build --tag gitlab-app:7.10.1 docker/app/

After this run the images:

sudo docker run --name gitlab-data gitlab-data /bin/true
sudo docker run --detach --name gitlab-app --publish 8080:80 --publish 2222:22 --volumes-from gitlab-data gitlab-app:7.10.1

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

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 an interactive command line in a new container using the shared data volume container, you will be able to browse the 3 directories and use your favorite text editor:

sudo docker run -ti -e TERM=linux --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.

To upgrade GitLab to new versions, stop running container, create new docker image and container from that image.

It Assumes that you're upgrading from 7.8.1 to 7.10.1 and you're in the updated GitLab repo root directory:

sudo docker stop gitlab-app
sudo docker rm gitlab-app
sudo docker build --tag gitlab-app:7.10.1 docker/app/
sudo docker run --detach --name gitlab-app --publish 8080:80 --publish 2222:22 --volumes-from gitlab-data gitlab-app:7.10.1

On the first run GitLab will reconfigure and update itself. If everything runs OK don't forget to cleanup the app image:

sudo docker rmi gitlab-app:7.8.1

• Ensure the containers are running
• Login to Dockerhub with sudo docker login
• Run the following (replace '7.10.1' with the version you're using and 'Sytse Sijbrandij' with your name):

sudo docker commit -m "Initial commit" -a "Sytse Sijbrandij" gitlab-app sytse/gitlab-app:7.10.1
sudo docker push sytse/gitlab-app:7.10.1
sudo docker commit -m "Initial commit" -a "Sytse Sijbrandij" gitlab-data sytse/gitlab-data
sudo docker push sytse/gitlab-data

Please see the troubleshooting file in this directory.