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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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Gitaly

In the first versions of GitLab, all Git operations relied on using a local disk or network share. Gitaly is a project that tries to eliminate reliance on the Network File System (NFS). Instead of calls to a filesystem service, Gitaly provides GitLab with a system based on Remote Procedure Calls (RPCs) to access Git repositories. It is written in Go and uses gRPC Remote Procedure Call (gRPC), a cross-platform RPC framework from Google. It has been steadily developing since the beginning of 2017, and since GitLab 11.4, it can replace the need for a shared NFS filesystem.

You can find an overview of Gitaly and its place in the GitLab architecture in the following screenshot:

On a small installation, it runs in the same servers as all ...

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