GitLab is a very useful open source code repository for developers. If you’ve ever used github.com, you know what GitLab is. It’s essentially your own, off-line GitHub.
Technically speaking it’s a git server with a nice GUI, which will work just as well for standalone developers as for small companies.
First off, install a minimal installation of either CentOS 7 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (for example using this installation guide).
Once you have a working OS, let’s install all dependencies:
sudo yum install curl policycoreutils openssh-server openssh-clients
Now let’s start sshd and add it to autostart:
sudo systemctl enable sshd sudo systemctl start sshd
We will need postfix, so GitLab can send out e-mails (registration confirmation and notifications)
sudo yum install postfix sudo systemctl enable postfix sudo systemctl start postfix
We are setting up HTTP only here, so we have to punch a hole on firewall to allow incoming connections:
sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=http sudo firewall-cmd --add-service=http sudo systemctl reload firewalld
Remember to open HTTPS port if you choose to run https (hint: you should).
We’re ready! Now let’s add GitLab’s repository and start the installation. It’s done by this handy script:
curl -sS https://packages.gitlab.com/install/repositories/gitlab/gitlab-ce/script.rpm.sh | sudo bash
Now all we have to do is start install:
sudo yum install gitlab-ce
Once GitLab has been installed, let’s configure it:
sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure
You should be able to log in after this step:
