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Getting started with GitLab

About GitLab


GitLab is a web-based DevOps lifecycle tool that provides a Git-repository manager providing wiki, issue-tracking and continuous integration/continuous deployment pipeline features, using an open-source license, developed by GitLab Inc. (Wikipedia)


In short, GitLab is a fully functional self-hosted Git-repository manager, available free!



Minimum System Requirements


  • 1 vCPU Core (2 cores recommended)
  • 3 GB RAM (4 GB recommended)
  • 10 GB of Disk


Getting Started


Once the application is installed, you can access the application by visiting.



When you login the first time, it will ask you to set a password for the root user


Important files and documents


An initial configuration and information article can be found here: https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/settings/configuration.html


GitLab UI

Updated on: 07/08/2020

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