From the course: AWS DevOps: Continuous Docker Deployment to AWS Fargate from GitLab

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GitLab first time setup

GitLab first time setup

From the course: AWS DevOps: Continuous Docker Deployment to AWS Fargate from GitLab

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GitLab first time setup

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- [Instructor] Now that GitLab is running for the first time, let's create a new password for your user. After you put in your password, it'll take you to a sign-in screen. The user it just created for you is called root. So type root as the user name and then put in the password you just created. The first thing that I want to do here is create a new user for myself because I don't want to run as the root user. Click on Add people. And for the name I'll type my name. For the username, I'll give myself a username and I'll put in my email address. Under Access level, I want to set myself as an admin. And click Create user. If you configured your SMTP settings correctly, you should have an email waiting for you with a link to reset your temporary password. Sign out of GitLab as the root user. And now log in using the user you just created for yourself. Click on your profile image in the upper right corner and click on Settings. Click on SSH Keys. Just like on GitHub or Bitbucket, you…

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