Support #679: Install GitLab 8 From Source on FreeBSD - FreeBSD Administration - ALT Project Management

Support #679

Install GitLab 8 From Source on FreeBSD

Added by Daniel Curtis about 9 years ago. Updated over 8 years ago.

Status:

Closed

Priority:

Normal

Assignee:

Daniel Curtis

Category:

Source Code Management

Target version:

FreeBSD 10

Start date:

10/18/2015

Due date:

% Done:

100%

Estimated time:

2.00 h

Spent time:

4.50 h

Description

Table of contents
Prepare the Environment
Install GitLab 8
Install Nginx
Install GitLab Runner
Resources

This is a guide on installing GitLab 8.8 from source with continuous integration on FreeBSD 10.

Prepare the Environment¶

Make sure the system is up to date:
```
pkg update && pkg upgrade
```

Install a few dependencies:

pkg install sudo bash icu cmake pkgconf git node ruby ruby22-gems logrotate postfix krb5 go wget rubygem-bundler portmaster postgresql94-server redis gmake mercurial

Add the GitLab user

pw add user -n git -m -s /usr/local/bin/bash -c "GitLab"

Add git to the redis group:
```
pw usermod git -G redis
```

Configure Postfix¶

Enable postfix as the mail delivery agent, and disable sendmail:

echo 'postfix_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf
echo 'sendmail_enable="NO"' >> /etc/rc.conf
echo 'sendmail_submit_enable="NO"' >> /etc/rc.conf
echo 'sendmail_outbound_enable="NO"' >> /etc/rc.conf
echo 'sendmail_msp_queue_enable="NO"' >> /etc/rc.conf

Configure PostgreSQL¶

Initialize, start, and enable postgresql at boot:

echo 'postgresql_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf
service postgresql initdb
service postgresql start

Connect to postgresql database

psql -d template1

Create a user for GitLab:

CREATE USER git WITH PASSWORD 'SuperSecretPassword' CREATEDB;

Create the GitLab production database & grant all privileges on database
```
CREATE DATABASE gitlabhq_production OWNER git encoding='UTF8';
```
Quit the database session
```
\q
exit
```

Configure Redis¶

Back up the original Redis config file:

cp /usr/local/etc/redis.conf /usr/local/etc/redis.conf.orig

Disable Redis listening on TCP by setting 'port' to 0

sed -i '' -e 's/^port .*/port 0/' /usr/local/etc/redis.conf

Enable Redis socket

echo 'unixsocket /usr/local/var/run/redis/redis.sock' >> /usr/local/etc/redis.conf

Grant permission to the socket to all members of the redis group
```
echo 'unixsocketperm 770' >> /usr/local/etc/redis.conf
```

Create the directory which contains the socket

mkdir -p /usr/local/var/run/redis
chown redis:redis /usr/local/var/run/redis
chmod 755 /var/run/redis

Start and enable redis at boot:

echo 'redis_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf
service redis start

Install GitLab 8¶

Switch to the git user:
```
su - git
```

Clone GitLab repository

git clone https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce.git -b 8-8-stable gitlab
cd gitlab

Copy the example GitLab config

cp config/gitlab.yml.example config/gitlab.yml

Update GitLab config file, follow the directions at top of file
```
vi config/gitlab.yml
```

Copy the example secrets file

cp config/secrets.yml.example config/secrets.yml
chmod 0600 config/secrets.yml

Make sure GitLab can write to the log/ and tmp/ directories

chown -R git log/
chown -R git tmp/
chmod -R u+rwX,go-w log/
chmod -R u+rwX tmp/

Make sure GitLab can write to the tmp/pids/ and tmp/sockets/ directories
```
chmod -R u+rwX tmp/pids/
chmod -R u+rwX tmp/sockets/
```

Make sure GitLab can write to the public/uploads/ directory
```
chmod -R u+rwX  public/uploads
```

Change the permissions of the directory where CI build traces are stored
```
chmod -R u+rwX builds/
```

Copy the example Unicorn config

cp config/unicorn.rb.example config/unicorn.rb

Copy the example Rack attack config

cp config/initializers/rack_attack.rb.example config/initializers/rack_attack.rb

Configure Git global settings for git user, used when editing via web editor
```
git config --global core.autocrlf input
```

Configure Redis connection settings

cp config/resque.yml.example config/resque.yml

Change the Redis socket path if you are not using the default Debian / Ubuntu configuration
```
vi config/resque.yml
```
- And modify the following parameter:
```
production: unix:/usr/local/var/run/redis/redis.sock
```

Configure GitLab DB Settings:

cp config/database.yml.postgresql config/database.yml

Change the database credentials if necessary:
```
vi config/database.yml
```

Make config/database.yml readable to git only
```
chmod o-rwx config/database.yml
```

Install the gems for PostgreSQL:

bundle install --deployment --without development test mysql aws kerberos

Install GitLab Shell¶

Run the installation task for gitlab-shell:

bundle exec rake gitlab:shell:install RAILS_ENV=production

By default, the gitlab-shell config is generated from your main GitLab config, double check the settings are correct:
```
vi /home/git/gitlab-shell/config.yml
```

Install GitLab Workhorse¶

Install the gitlab workhorse:

cd /home/git
git clone https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-workhorse.git
cd gitlab-workhorse
git checkout 0.6.5
make

Initialize Database¶

Initialize the database:

cd /home/git/gitlab
bundle exec rake gitlab:setup RAILS_ENV=production

Exit out of the git user, back into root:
```
exit
```

Install Init Script¶

Download the init script:

wget -O /usr/local/etc/rc.d/gitlab https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-recipes/raw/master/init/init/freebsd/gitlab-unicorn

Fix the shell environment for the init script:

sed -i '' -e 's/\#\!\ \/bin\/sh/\#\!\ \/usr\/local\/bin\/bash' /usr/local/etc/rc.d/gitlab

Make the init script executable:
```
chmod +x /usr/local/etc/rc.d/gitlab
```

Check Configuration and Compile Assets¶

Check the configuration:

cd /home/git/gitlab
bundle exec rake gitlab:env:info RAILS_ENV=production

Compile all of the assets for GitLab:

bundle exec rake assets:precompile RAILS_ENV=production

Start and enable gitlab at boot:

echo 'gitlab_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf
service gitlab start

Install Nginx¶

Install nginx:
```
pkg install nginx
```

Start and enable nginx at boot:

echo 'nginx_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf
service nginx start

Create a configuration directory to make managing individual server blocks easier
```
mkdir /usr/local/etc/nginx/conf.d
```

Edit the main nginx config file:

vi /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf

And strip down the config file and add the include statement at the end to make it easier to handle various server blocks:

worker_processes  1;
error_log  /var/log/nginx-error.log;

events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}

http {
    include       mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;
    sendfile        on;
    keepalive_timeout  65;

    # Load config files from the /etc/nginx/conf.d directory
    include /usr/local/etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
}

Create the gitlab nginx config:

vi /usr/local/etc/nginx/conf.d/gitlab.example.com.conf

And add the following:

upstream gitlab-workhorse {
  server unix:/home/git/gitlab/tmp/sockets/gitlab-workhorse.socket fail_timeout=0;
}

server {
  listen 80;
  server_name gitlab.example.com;
  server_tokens off;
  root /home/git/gitlab/public;
  access_log  /var/log/gitlab.example.com-access.log;
  error_log   /var/log/gitlab.example.com-error.log;

  location / {
    client_max_body_size 0;
    gzip off;

    proxy_read_timeout      300;
    proxy_connect_timeout   300;
    proxy_redirect          off;

    proxy_http_version 1.1;

    proxy_set_header    Host                $http_host;
    proxy_set_header    X-Real-IP           $remote_addr;
    proxy_set_header    X-Forwarded-For     $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    proxy_set_header    X-Forwarded-Proto   $scheme;

    proxy_pass http://gitlab-workhorse;
  }
}

Install GitLab Runner¶

Download the binary for 64-bit systems:

wget -O /usr/local/bin/gitlab-ci-multi-runner https://gitlab-ci-multi-runner-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/latest/binaries/gitlab-ci-multi-runner-freebsd-amd64

NOTE: If the host architecture is 32-bit download the 386 version of the gitlab runner:

wget -O /usr/local/bin/gitlab-ci-multi-runner https://gitlab-ci-multi-runner-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/latest/binaries/gitlab-ci-multi-runner-freebsd-386

Give it permissions to execute:

chmod +x /usr/local/bin/gitlab-ci-multi-runner

Open a web browser and go to http://gitlab.example.com, then log in as the admin user:
- Username root, password 5iveL!fe

Next navigate to http://gitlab.example.com/ci/admin/runners to get the token

Then switch to the git user

Finally register the gitlab runner instance:

gitlab-ci-multi-runner register --non-interactive --url "http://gitlab.example.com/ci" --registration-token "5777041dc9651d08ff77" --description "gitlab-ce-ruby-2.1" --executor "shell" builds_dir = "" shell = "bash"