Using Chef and GitLab Cookbook

You can install GitLab using chef-solo. It allows you to install a server and all of its dependencies through a pre-programmed script. GitLab Cookbook is also used as the base for the Omnibus Package.

If you want more information on Chef, please take a look at www.getchef.com.

For this recipe, we are going to use a Ubuntu-based installation.

Getting ready

Before we start installing, you need to have a server installed with Ubuntu and have SSH access to the server. Your server needs to have at least 2 GB of RAM to compile all the requirements.

How to do it…

  1. We start with downloading some server dependencies:
    sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y build-essential git curl
  2. Download the chef-solo file:
    curl -o /tmp/solo.json ...

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