Documentation

User documentation

• API Automate GitLab via a simple and powerful API.
• GitLab as OAuth2 authentication service provider. It allows you to login to other applications from GitLab.
• GitLab Basics Find step by step how to start working on your commandline and on GitLab.
• Importing to GitLab.
• Markdown GitLab's advanced formatting system.
• Migrating from SVN Convert a SVN repository to Git and GitLab
• Permissions Learn what each role in a project (guest/reporter/developer/master/owner) can do.
• Profile Settings
• Project Services Integrate a project with external services, such as CI and chat.
• Public access Learn how you can allow public and internal access to projects.
• SSH Setup your ssh keys and deploy keys for secure access to your projects.
• Web hooks Let GitLab notify you when new code has been pushed to your project.
• Workflow Using GitLab functionality and importing projects from GitHub and SVN.

CI User documentation

• Get started with GitLab CI
• Learn how to enable or disable GitLab CI
• Learn how .gitlab-ci.yml works
• Configure a Runner, the application that runs your builds
• Use Docker images with GitLab Runner
• Use CI to build Docker images
• Use variables in your .gitlab-ci.yml
• Use SSH keys in your build environment
• Trigger builds through the API
• Build artifacts
• User permissions
• API

CI Examples

• The .gitlab-ci.yml file for GitLab itself
• Test your PHP applications
• Test and deploy Ruby applications to Heroku
• Test and deploy Python applications to Heroku
• Test Clojure applications
• Using dpl as deployment tool
• Help your favorite programming language and GitLab by sending a merge request with a guide for that language.

CI Services

GitLab CI uses the services keyword to define what docker containers should be linked with your base image. Below is a list of examples you may use:

• Using MySQL
• Using PostgreSQL
• Using Redis
• Using Other Services

Administrator documentation

• Custom git hooks Custom git hooks (on the filesystem) for when web hooks aren't enough.
• Install Requirements, directory structures and installation from source.
• Restart GitLab Learn how to restart GitLab and its components
• Integration How to integrate with systems such as JIRA, Redmine, LDAP and Twitter.
• Issue closing Customize how to close an issue from commit messages.
• Libravatar Use Libravatar for user avatars.
• Log system Log system.
• Environment Variables to configure GitLab.
• Operations Keeping GitLab up and running
• Raketasks Backups, maintenance, automatic web hook setup and the importing of projects.
• Security Learn what you can do to further secure your GitLab instance.
• System hooks Notifications when users, projects and keys are changed.
• Update Update guides to upgrade your installation.
• Welcome message Add a custom welcome message to the sign-in page.
• Reply by email Allow users to comment on issues and merge requests by replying to notification emails.
• Migrate GitLab CI to CE/EE Follow this guide to migrate your existing GitLab CI data to GitLab CE/EE.
• Git LFS configuration
• Housekeeping Keep your Git repository tidy and fast.
• GitLab Performance Monitoring Configure GitLab and InfluxDB for measuring performance metrics

Contributor documentation

• Documentation styleguide Use this styleguide if you are contributing to documentation.
• Development Explains the architecture and the guidelines for shell commands.
• Legal Contributor license agreements.
• Release How to make the monthly and security releases.