In order to generate a Let’s Encrypt Certificate, we will use the letsencrypt command tool. In this section, we will install the free Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate for our newly installed GitLab. The username will be set by default as root, so you can use it when you try to log in. Of course in this screen, you need to enter your admin password and when you will finish with this, you will be redirected to the login screen again so you can log in for the first time. When you access your_ for the first time at your favorite browser, you will be redirected to the reset password screen. If the upper instruction was carefully followed, now you have installed GitLab CE on your Ubuntu 16.04. sudo EXTERNAL_URL='' apt install gitlab-ee After the installation, there is an additional configuration for setting up the HTTPS protocol. The domain you will set it will be configured automatically by the script we are using. In the following command, you need to change the URL from to the domain you will use to access the GitLab instance. Next step is to install the GitLab package. We will add the repository for the GitLab package by running the following command: curl | sudo bash This is a direct process that uses an installation script named ‘omnibus’ to configure your system with GitLab repositories.

Now that dependencies are set, we can proceed with installing GitLab. You can proceed if additional screens appear and accept the default values. After this, need to provide a mail server name or IP address to configure how the system will send mail.

Choose the “Internet Site” and press Enter. sudo apt install postfixĪ configuration screen may appear during Postfix installation. Sudo apt install curl openssh-server ca-certificatesĪlso, we need to install Postfix MTA for notifications. To install the necessary dependencies, we need to execute the command below: sudo apt update Install Required Packagesīefore we begin the installation of GitLab, we need to be sure that Ubuntu already has the necessary packages installed to run GitLab. Other then the Ubuntu for recommended hardware requirements you will need:įor more information about hardware requirements, you can check the official Gitlab page. We will assume that you have a VPS with freshly installed Ubuntu 16.04. In this article, we will install the Community Edition by using the ‘omnibus’ package offered by official Gitlab. Gitlab has self-hosted and paid version (Enterprise Edition) and self-hosted and free (Community Edition). Gitlab offers outstanding features like repository branching, merging, file locking and tagging, time tracking and many more, so you can take full advantage of it. In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to install GitLab (Community Edition) on Ubuntu 16.04. One of the alternatives for Github is the Gitlab git repository manager.

How to install gitlab on ubuntu 16.04