GitLab-CE on Fedora CoreOS in VMware with Static IP

Description

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The goal of this repository is to provide a simple, reproducible way to deploy a GitLab-CE on a Fedora CoreOS server inside of VMware with Static IPs.

Quickstart

Start by editing the group_vars/all.yml file:

• Set the vCenter variables

  1. IP/Host Name of vCenter
  2. vCenter Network
  3. Datastore name
  4. Datacenter name
  5. username and passwords of vCenter Account
  6. Absoluate folder path - e.g /DataCenter/vm/Folder/
  7. VM Power state after being deployed

• Configure your Fedora CoreOS URL and govc version.

  1. Set the Fedora CoreOS stream version. stable is the default

• Configure your GitLab VM Settings

  1. VM and Host Name
  2. IP Addr, Gateway, Net Mask, DNS
  3. GitLab-CE Version Tag e.g. latest
  4. SSH Port for GitLab-CE container
  5. Number of CPUs
  6. Amount of Memory in MB

Infrastructure Prerequisites

1. vSphere ESXi and vCenter 6.7 or 7.0 installed.
2. A datacenter created with a vSphere host added to it and a datastore exists that has adequate capacity.
3. Ansible (preferably latest) on the machine where this repo is cloned.
   1. Before you install Ansible, install the epel-release, run yum -y install epel-release

USAGE

Run Deploy Playbook

# Deploy the Lab and all components
ansible-playbook deploy-gitlab.yml

deploy-aio-lab.yml Extra Variables

skip_ova=true - Skips downloading and deploying the OVA if previous deployed to vCenter.

redeploy=true - Deletes existing GitLab vm

Expected Outcome

1. Necessary Linux packages installed for the installation
2. Necessary folders [bin, downloads] created
3. govc downloaded and extracted
4. FCOS ova downloaded to the downloads folder
5. GitLab VM is created in the designated folder and (in state of) poweredon

Updating GitLab-CE after deploying the server.

To update the instance of GitLab-CE after deploying the FCOS server you will need to SSH into the FCOS node core@gitlab_ip_address and simply restart the service. This will force a newer image

sudo systemctl restart gitlab.service

AUTHOR

Morgan Peterman