CentOS 7.x gitlab on lxc container

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CentOS 7.x gitlab on lxc container

To install gitlab on lxc-container use following steps:

1. Install required packages

   yum install -y curl policycoreutils-python sudo

2. If firewalld is installed then either disable Firewalld or allow ports 22,80,443 via firewalld
3. Optionally install and configure postfix
4. Setup repository using:

   curl https://packages.gitlab.com/install/repositories/gitlab/gitlab-ee/script.rpm.sh | sudo bash

5. Optionally configure yum with keepcache=1 as gitlab setup is about 600MB
6. Install gitlab using:

   yum install -y gitlab-ee

   OR if server is publically accessible over FQDN

   sudo EXTERNAL_URL="https://gitlab.example.com" yum install -y gitlab-ee

   Note that gitlab-ee can be installed by anyone. Without license it would work like gitlab-ce

7. Edit /etc/gitlab/gitlab.re and update external_url
8. Run 'sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure' which shows below error

   Running handlers:
   There was an error running gitlab-ctl reconfigure:
   
   service[grafana] (dynamically defined) had an error: Mixlib::ShellOut::ShellCommandFailed: Expected process to exit with [0], but received '1'
   ---- Begin output of /opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/chpst -u root:root /opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/sv restart /opt/gitlab/service/grafana ----
   STDOUT: timeout: run: /opt/gitlab/service/grafana: (pid 2309) 48s, got TERM
   STDERR:
   ---- End output of /opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/chpst -u root:root /opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/sv restart /opt/gitlab/service/grafana ----
   Ran /opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/chpst -u root:root /opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/sv restart /opt/gitlab/service/grafana returned 1
   
   Running handlers complete
   Chef Client failed. 524 resources updated in 06 minutes 25 seconds

9. Start gitlab despite errors using:

   gitlab-ctl start

10. Then access at http://<fqdn> and set required password for root user. Then login with username root

Refer:

• https://about.gitlab.com/install/#centos-7

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