Run GitLab as a Dokku app

Quick start

1. Clone/fork this project.
2. Update/add settings in dokku.env (please refer to https://github.com/sameersbn/docker-gitlab#available-configuration-parameters).
3. Run:

DOKKU_HOST=dokku.me dokku apps:create gitlab
dokku postgres:create gitlab
dokku postgres:link gitlab gitlab
echo "CREATE EXTENSION pg_trgm;" | dokku postgres:connect gitlab
# pg_dump --no-owner --no-acl old_gitlab > gitlab.backup.sql
# dokku postgres:connect gitlab < gitlab.backup.sql
dokku redis:create gitlab
dokku redis:link gitlab gitlab
dokku config:set \
	GITLAB_SECRETS_OTP_KEY_BASE="$(pwgen -s -n 64 -c 1)" \
	GITLAB_SECRETS_DB_KEY_BASE="$(pwgen -s -n 64 -c 1)" \
	GITLAB_SECRETS_SECRET_KEY_BASE="$(pwgen -s -n 64 -c 1)"
dokku config:set $(cat dokku.env)
dokku storage:mount /srv/gitlab/data:/home/git/data
dokku storage:mount /srv/gitlab/log:/var/log/gitlab
git push dokku master

Your new GitLab instance is now running at https://git.dokku.me.

Enable SSH access

Please note that GitLab SSH server runs inside the Docker container. You will need to setup port forwarding on the host to connect to it from the outside network. This guide doesn't cover that scenario.

Alternatively, it is possible to setup a SSH proxy at the Dokku host, which will allow to access GitLab like this:

git clone [email protected]:group/project.git

To achieve that, please follow the guide from sameersbn/docker-gitlab#737.

After walking through the guide, replace the docker container name in the proxy script with gitlab.web.1:

docker exec -i -u git gitlab.web.1 sh ...