Missing /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb

[Gaibhne]

As per https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/settings/configuration.html, GitLab has a lot of unexposed configuration options in the file /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb. In this image, the file does not exist, and although a file with an identical name exists in /home/git/gitlab/lib/gitlab.rb, this does not appear to be the file referenced in the GitLab documentation.

Many configuration options are not exposed through environment variables, and I'm wondering how I can set/change them with this image. That I would have to roll my own Dockerfile that extends this one is understood.

[wally666]

I have this same problem. I can not even set the external url parameter. Any changes made in /home/git/gitlab/lib/gitlab.rb are overriden after docker container restart.
What is the proper way to configure this docker image?

[rob-ack]

@sameersbn Can you please help us with this?

[Gaibhne]

It's disappointing that something as basic as, well, basic configuration is not addressed in this image. It would be great if @sameersbn or @solidnerd could chime in to at least give us a rough headsup on what is going on with this. Pretty please ?

[kaotika]

Any updates on this?

[taomaree]

you can use enviroment variable to do most configuration , check the docs https://github.com/sameersbn/docker-gitlab#available-configuration-parameters

if there are some configuration missing, we need more enviroment variable, like this pr
#1884

[Gaibhne]

So when there is a configuration missing, there is no way to manually configure it without a PR ?

If that is the case, that seems to be a big issue, which I am surprised isn't getting more votes. Maybe we could get some sort of blanket support as a stop-gap by allowing us to import a custom file with optional, additional settings that are blindly copied to the gitlab.rb file or whatever is used internally in this image ?

[solidnerd]

Hey @Gaibhne,
this Image using the install from source method as documented in the official documentation. So in this Image there will be never a /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb if you want to use the gitlab.rb you should think about using the omnibus image.

Regarding your request of disabling the templating in this image. I think it could be an option. I would appreciate a proposal in a PR.

[vl-bwalocha]

Hi guys! Nothing has changed?

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[MybatisYang]

Brother, I have also encountered the same problem. Has anyone solved this big problem? I want to configure external_ URL