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Installing GitLab to the Refactor Assistant Host

Running the script​

On the linux RA host, create the following script

startgitlab.sh

#/bin/bash
mkdir -p /gitlab/config /gitlab/logs /gitlab/data
export CONFIG=/gitlab/config
export LOGS=/gitlab/logs
export DATA=/gitlab/data

# Retrieve the IP address associated with addis.ibm.com from /etc/hosts
#ip_addr=$(awk '/addis.ibm.com/{print $1; exit}' /etc/hosts)

# Check if a container named gitlab already exists
#    --hostname wca4z-pilot-gitlab.ibm.com \
#    --add-host=wca4z-addi.ibm.com:$ip_addr \
if ! podman container exists gitlab; then
  # If the container does not exist, create and start a new one
  podman container run \
    --detach \
    --publish 10880:80 --publish 10022:22 --publish 10443:443 \
    --name gitlab \
    --restart always \
    --volume ${CONFIG}:/etc/gitlab \
    --volume ${LOGS}:/var/log/gitlab \
    --volume ${DATA}:/var/opt/gitlab \
    --shm-size 256m \
    gitlab/gitlab-ce:latest
else
  # If the container exists, stop and remove it before creating a new one
  podman stop gitlab || true
  podman rm gitlab || true
  podman container run \
    --detach \
    --publish 10880:80 --publish 10022:22 --publish 10443:443 \
    --name gitlab \
    --restart always \
    --volume ${CONFIG}:/etc/gitlab \
    --volume ${LOGS}:/var/log/gitlab \
    --volume ${DATA}:/var/opt/gitlab \
    --shm-size 256m \
    gitlab/gitlab-ce:latest
fi

Mark the script as executable and run it

chmod a+rx startgitlab.sh
./startgitlab.sh

This will generate all the required directories for gitlab.

Retrieving the password and logging in​

Once the pod is up and online:

podman ps | grep gitlab
052cffb36b71  docker.io/gitlab/gitlab-ce:latest                /assets/wrapper       2 hours ago  Up 2 hours (healthy)  0.0.0.0:10022->22/tcp, 0.0.0.0:10443->443/tcp, 0.0.0.0:10880->80/tcp  gitlab

Retrieve the ip of the RA host.

ifconfig eth0

eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 10.240.0.5  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 10.240.0.255
        inet6 fe80::2ff:fe7b:e259  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
        ether 02:00:02:7b:e2:59  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 4739001  bytes 11180085073 (10.4 GiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 5041538  bytes 768444867 (732.8 MiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

Our ip for this RA host is 10.240.0.5. Your mileage may differ.

Navigate to gitlab's config directory

cd /gitlab/config

Copy the initial_root_password file to your home directory for safe keeping. This assumes you are running these commands as root

cp initial_root_password ~/

That initial_root_password file contains the root password to log into the gitlab instance.

Logging into GitLab​

From the windows ADDI host

Open a browser and navigate to the RA host ip at port 10880

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User is root and the password is retrieved from the initial_root_password file from earlier.

Creating required repos​

TBD