We recently had to install a bunch of applications on a customer’s shiny new OpenShift 3.11 cluster. Among others also GitLab. Turned out getting GitLab up and running on OpenShift is not so easy. What I found on the Internet about installing GitLab on OpenShift was partly outdated and not 100% accurate. Most information was about getting GitLab into a Kubernetes cluster. So I had to adapt these information to the situation in an OpenShift cluster.
This article is the conclusion of all these findings and efforts and gives a step-by-step recipe on how to install GitLab on OpenShift.
At ConSol we use GitLab as our central Git server and I am quite happy with its functionality. Lately, I have been playing around with GitLab CI with the objective of finding out if we can use it instead of Jenkins, our current CI server of choice.
Since most of our projects use Maven, I was particularly interested in setting up a simple Maven build job.
To cut a long story short, yes, I would use GitLab CI in my next project. We’ll later see why, but first I want to give a quick walkthrough of GitLab CI.
| Author: | Christian Guggenmos |
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| Tags: | gitlab, continuous integration |
| Categories: | development |