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Mastering GitLab 12
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Mastering GitLab 12

by Joost Evertse
August 2019
Beginner
608 pages
16h 7m
English
Packt Publishing
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Reconfiguring GitLab Docker containers

The official containers from GitLab use the omnibus-gitlab package, so all the configuration is managed through the unique configuration file, /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb.

Once the container is started, you can connect to it by starting a Bash session:

docker exec -it gitlab /bin/bash

You can now edit /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb inside the Docker container. Then you can run gitlab-ctl reconfigure after that to apply the changes.

A second way to configure the container is to start it up with a environment variable, GITLAB_OMNIBUS_CONFIG. This variable can contain the contents of a gitlab.rb file. These settings will not be persisted to the real file.

You could use the following code:

sudo docker run  \ --hostname ...
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