gitlab cookbook

This Chef cookbook and Capistrano recipe is created to:

1. Setup an Ubuntu 12.0.4 server to be ready for GitlabHQ
2. Push the 4.0-stable branch of Gitlab

I've separated it into two components because:

1. I wanted to better understand the setup process from start to finish and build an idempotent Chef cookbook.
2. I like the ability to push new releases using Capistrano.

Requirements

Tested on Ubuntu 12.0.4 using:

1. Vagrant
2. Rackspace Cloud

You need to have Ruby 1.9.3-p327, Bundler and Chef already installed - I have included my Ubuntu 12.0.4LTS bootstrap.

There's a Vagrant test vm available here.

Usage

1. Add your own ssh public keys to templates/default/gitlab_authorized_keys.erb
2. Add recipe[gitlab] to your node's runlist - run: chef-client
3. Edit :domain in config/deploy.rb and then: cap deploy (It may fail to "restart" at the end - that's OK.)
4. Edit /home/gitlab/.pam_environment - that's where the database username / passsword are kept.
5. cap deploy:app_setup
6. cap deploy:start
7. Browse to the ip address and sign in as the default user. (admin@local.host / 5iveL!fe) NOTE: You may need to give it a second to compile all of the assets and get spun up properly - if you see an Nginx 502 Gateway error give it a second.
8. Profit

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Recipes

Author

Author:: Darron Froese (darron@froese.org)