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J. PainterPractical GitLab Serviceshttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0427-4_18

18. It’s an Admin’s Life

Jeffrey Painter1  
(1)
Sugar Grove, IL, USA
 

In addition to one-time tasks such as setting up connectivity to an external email service and enabling secondary services, there will be tasks you will need to do periodically as an administrator to keep things running smoothly. In this chapter, we’ll talk about three such tasks.

First, we’ll look at how to manage users of your self-managed service. This is especially important if you are using a per-seat license. Second, we’ll look at how to update GitLab’s configuration, something you’ll probably need to do on ...

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