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Configure GitLab

Configure GitLab

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Configure GitLab

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- [Trainer] GitLab configuration is managed by a Ruby file that's called gitlab.rb. Our container's going to start up and use a default gitlab.rb file that's based on a template. Let's take a look at this file and configure GitLab. In your SSH session with your GitLab instance type sudo vim /srv/gitlab/config/gitlab.rb and hit Enter. You'll notice that this configuration file has a lot of options to it. The first thing that we're going to want to change is a variable called external_url. So type /external_url and hit Enter. Now this variable shows up multiple times in the file so you may have to use the n key inside of Vim to toggle through the different search options. Here's the line I'm looking for. I'm going to move to the left two spaces, hit X + X and now I've uncommented the line. And then, I can type C + I + single quotes. And now I'm changing everything inside the single quotes and so I'm going to put in my external URL from my GitLab instance, which is…

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