From d86cd7c3d9a4613540e2fd81ea3f31795be7917c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard Clamp Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 14:53:27 +0000 Subject: Tidy up the documentation of Gitlab HA/Gitlab Application --- doc/administration/high_availability/gitlab.md | 23 +++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc/administration/high_availability') diff --git a/doc/administration/high_availability/gitlab.md b/doc/administration/high_availability/gitlab.md index 42666357faf..b85a166089d 100644 --- a/doc/administration/high_availability/gitlab.md +++ b/doc/administration/high_availability/gitlab.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Configuring GitLab for HA -Assuming you have already configured a database, Redis, and NFS, you can +Assuming you have already configured a [database](database.md), [Redis](redis.md), and [NFS](nfs.md), you can configure the GitLab application server(s) now. Complete the steps below for each GitLab application server in your environment. @@ -48,34 +48,33 @@ for each GitLab application server in your environment. data locations. See [NFS documentation](nfs.md) for `/etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb` configuration values for various scenarios. The example below assumes you've added NFS mounts in the default data locations. - + ```ruby external_url 'https://gitlab.example.com' # Prevent GitLab from starting if NFS data mounts are not available high_availability['mountpoint'] = '/var/opt/gitlab/git-data' - + # Disable components that will not be on the GitLab application server - postgresql['enable'] = false - redis['enable'] = false - + roles ['application_role'] + # PostgreSQL connection details gitlab_rails['db_adapter'] = 'postgresql' gitlab_rails['db_encoding'] = 'unicode' gitlab_rails['db_host'] = '10.1.0.5' # IP/hostname of database server gitlab_rails['db_password'] = 'DB password' - + # Redis connection details gitlab_rails['redis_port'] = '6379' gitlab_rails['redis_host'] = '10.1.0.6' # IP/hostname of Redis server gitlab_rails['redis_password'] = 'Redis Password' ``` - - > **Note:** To maintain uniformity of links across HA clusters, the `external_url` - on the first application server as well as the additional application - servers should point to the external url that users will use to access GitLab. + + > **Note:** To maintain uniformity of links across HA clusters, the `external_url` + on the first application server as well as the additional application + servers should point to the external url that users will use to access GitLab. In a typical HA setup, this will be the url of the load balancer which will - route traffic to all GitLab application servers in the HA cluster. + route traffic to all GitLab application servers in the HA cluster. 1. Run `sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure` to compile the configuration. -- cgit v1.2.3