Mastering GitLab 12

Contents of gitlab.rb.primary.j2

We have to define the main URL for the GitLab instance:

external_url 'http://{{ hostvars[groups['gitlab'][0]]['geo_primary_address'] }}'

For this demonstration, we will disable SSL:

letsencrypt['enable'] = false

The role remains the same:

roles ['geo_primary_role']

In the Ansible script, we are going to generate a database password that we will use on our secondary node as well:

postgresql['sql_user_password'] = "{{ generated_db_pass }}"

We will explicitly make the PostgreSQL database listen on the eth0 interface:

postgresql['listen_address'] = "{{ hostvars[groups['gitlab'][0]]['ansible_eth0']['ipv4']['address'] }}"

Here, we will define the IP addresses that will be allowed to connect to the database. We have ...