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Set up GDK

Clone GitLab Development Kit repository

Make sure that none of the directories 'above' GitLab Development Kit contain 'problematic' characters such as and (. For example, /home/janedoe/projects is OK, but /home/janedoe/my projects will cause problems:

gem install gitlab-development-kit
gdk init
cd gitlab-development-kit

Install GDK

The gdk install command will clone the repositories, install the Gem bundles and set up basic configuration files. Pick one of the methods below. If you don't have write access to the upstream repositories, you should use the 'Develop in a fork' method.

Develop in a fork

# Set up GDK with 'origin' pointing to your gitlab-ce fork.
# Replace MY-FORK with your namespace
gdk install gitlab_repo=https://gitlab.com/MY-FORK/gitlab-ce.git
support/set-gitlab-upstream

The set-gitlab-upstream script creates a remote named upstream for the canonical GitLab CE repository. It also modifies gdk update (See Update gitlab and gitlab-shell repositories) to pull down from the upstream repository instead of your fork, making it easier to keep up-to-date with the project.

If you want to push changes from upstream to your fork, run gdk update and then git push origin from the gitlab directory.

Develop in the main repo

Alternatively, you can clone all components from their official source.

gdk install

If you are going to work on Gitlab Geo, you will need PostgreSQL replication setup before the "Post-installation" instructions.

GitLab Enterprise Edition

The recommended way to do development on GitLab Enterprise Edition is to create a separate GDK directory for it. Below we call that directory gdk-ee. We will configure GDK to start GitLab on port 3001 instead of 3000 so that you can run GDK EE next to CE without port conflicts.

gem install gitlab-development-kit
gdk init gdk-ee
cd gdk-ee
echo 3001 > port
gdk install gitlab_repo=https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee.git

Now you can start GitLab EE with gdk run in the gdk-ee directory and you will not have port conflicts with a separate GDK instance for CE that might still be running.

Instructions to generate a developer license can be found in the onboarding document: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/developer-onboarding/#gitlab-enterprise-edition-ee

Post-installation

Start GitLab and all required services:

gdk run

To start only the databases use:

gdk run db

To start only the app (assuming the DBs are already running):

gdk run app

To access GitLab you may now go to http://localhost:3000 in your browser. The development login credentials are root and 5iveL!fe.

You can override the port used by this GDK with a 'port' file.

echo 4000 > port

Similarly, you can override the host (for example if you plan to use GDK inside a Docker container).

echo 0.0.0.0 > host

If you want to work on GitLab CI you will need to install GitLab Runner.

To enable the OpenLDAP server, see the OpenLDAP instructions in this readme.