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GitLab Quick Start Guide

By : Adam O'Grady
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GitLab Quick Start Guide

By: Adam O'Grady

Overview of this book

Gitlab is an open source repository management and version control toolkit with an enterprise offering. This book is the ideal guide to GitLab as a version control system (VCS), issue management tool, and a continuous integration platform. The book starts with an introduction to GitLab, a walkthrough of its features, and explores concepts such as version control systems, continuous integration, and continuous deployment. It then takes you through the process of downloading and installing a local copy of the on-premise version of GitLab in Ubuntu and/or CentOS. You will look at some common work?ows associated with GitLab work?ow and learn about project management in GitLab. You will see tools and techniques for migrating your code base from various version control systems such as GitHub and SVN to GitLab. By the end of the book, you will be using Gitlab for repository management, and be able to migrate projects from other VCSs to GitLab.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Manual installation

There are some situations where you won't be able to use an omnibus package to install GitLab, potentially if you want to use your own existing hardware, existing server software, or your own database. In these cases, you can do a manual installation of GitLab, which we will run through in this section. Please be aware that it is a more complicated process, and using the omnibus installation package is recommended if possible.

Initial packages

There are some initial packages you'll need to install before you even think about language runtimes. Many might be available through your chosen operating system's package manager, otherwise you might need to source them from the net. The current list...