GitLab Community Edition

GitLab is a Git-based fully featured platform for software development.

GitLab Community Edition (CE) is an opensource product, self-hosted, free to use. All GitLab products contain the features available in GitLab CE. Premium features are available in GitLab Enterprise Edition (EE).

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Shortcuts to GitLab's most visited docs:

GitLab CI	Other
Quick start guide	API
Configuring .gitlab-ci.yml	SSH authentication
Using Docker images	GitLab Pages

Getting started with GitLab

• GitLab Basics: Start working on your command line and on GitLab.
• GitLab Workflow: Enhance your workflow with the best of GitLab Workflow.
  • See also GitLab Workflow - an overview.
• GitLab Markdown: GitLab's advanced formatting system (GitLab Flavored Markdown).
• GitLab Slash Commands: Textual shortcuts for common actions on issues or merge requests that are usually done by clicking buttons or dropdowns in GitLab's UI.

User account

• Authentication: Account security with two-factor authentication, setup your ssh keys and deploy keys for secure access to your projects.
• Profile settings: Manage your profile settings, two factor authentication and more.
• User permissions: Learn what each role in a project (external/guest/reporter/developer/master/owner) can do.

Projects and groups

• Create a project
• Fork a project
• Importing and exporting projects between instances.
• Project access: Setting up your project's visibility to public, internal, or private.
• Groups: Organize your projects in groups.
  • Create a group
  • GitLab Subgroups
• Search through GitLab: Search for issues, merge requests, projects, groups, todos, and issues in Issue Boards.
• Snippets: Snippets allow you to create little bits of code.
• Wikis: Enhance your repository documentation with built-in wikis.
• GitLab Pages: Build, test, and deploy your static website with GitLab Pages.

Repository

Manage files and branches from the UI (user interface):

• Files
  • Create a file
  • Upload a file
  • File templates
  • Create a directory
  • Start a merge request (when committing via UI)
• Branches
  • Create a branch
  • Protected branches

Issues and Merge Requests (MRs)

• Discussions Threads, comments, and resolvable discussions in issues, commits, and merge requests.
• Issues
• Issue Board
• Issues and merge requests templates: Create templates for submitting new issues and merge requests.
• Labels: Categorize your issues or merge requests based on descriptive titles.
• Merge Requests
  • Work In Progress Merge Requests
  • Merge Request discussion resolution: Resolve discussions, move discussions in a merge request to an issue, only allow merge requests to be merged if all discussions are resolved.
  • Checkout merge requests locally
  • Cherry-pick
• Milestones: Organize issues and merge requests into a cohesive group, optionally setting a due date.
• Todos: A chronological list of to-dos that are waiting for your input, all in a simple dashboard.

Git and GitLab

• Git: Getting started with Git, branching strategies, Git LFS, advanced use.
• Git cheatsheet: Download a PDF describing the most used Git operations.
• GitLab Flow: explore the best of Git with the GitLab Flow strategy.

Migrate and import your projects from other platforms

• Importing to GitLab: Import your projects from GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab.com, FogBugz and SVN into GitLab.
• Migrating from SVN: Convert a SVN repository to Git and GitLab.

Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment

• GitLab CI: Explore the features and capabilities of Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Continuous Deployment with GitLab.
  • Auto Deploy: Configure GitLab CI for the deployment of your application.
  • Review Apps: Preview changes to your app right from a merge request.
• GitLab Cycle Analytics: Cycle Analytics measures the time it takes to go from an idea to production for each project you have.
• GitLab Container Registry: Learn how to use GitLab's built-in Container Registry.

Automation

• API: Automate GitLab via a simple and powerful API.
• GitLab Webhooks: Let GitLab notify you when new code has been pushed to your project.

Integrations

• Project Services: Integrate a project with external services, such as CI and chat.
• GitLab Integration: Integrate with multiple third-party services with GitLab to allow external issue trackers and external authentication.

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Administrator documentation

Learn how to administer your GitLab instance. Regular users don't have access to GitLab administration tools and settings.

Install, update, upgrade, migrate

• Install: Requirements, directory structures and installation from source.
• Mattermost: Integrate Mattermost with your GitLab installation.
• Migrate GitLab CI to CE/EE: If you have an old GitLab installation (older than 8.0), follow this guide to migrate your existing GitLab CI data to GitLab CE/EE.
• Restart GitLab: Learn how to restart GitLab and its components.
• Update: Update guides to upgrade your installation.

User permissions

• Access restrictions: Define which Git access protocols can be used to talk to GitLab
• Authentication/Authorization: Enforce 2FA, configure external authentication with LDAP, SAML, CAS and additional Omniauth providers.

GitLab admins' superpowers

• Container Registry: Configure Docker Registry with GitLab.
• Custom Git hooks: Custom Git hooks (on the filesystem) for when webhooks aren't enough.
• Git LFS configuration: Learn how to use LFS under GitLab.
• GitLab Pages configuration: Configure GitLab Pages.
• High Availability: Configure multiple servers for scaling or high availability.
• User cohorts View user activity over time.
• Web terminals: Provide terminal access to environments from within GitLab.
• GitLab CI
  • CI admin settings: Define max artifacts size and expiration time.

Integrations

• Integrations: How to integrate with systems such as JIRA, Redmine, Twitter.
• Koding: Set up Koding to use with GitLab.
• Mattermost: Set up GitLab with Mattermost.

Monitoring

• GitLab performance monitoring with InfluxDB: Configure GitLab and InfluxDB for measuring performance metrics.
• GitLab performance monitoring with Prometheus: Configure GitLab and Prometheus for measuring performance metrics.
• Monitoring uptime: Check the server status using the health check endpoint.

Performance

• Housekeeping: Keep your Git repository tidy and fast.
• Operations: Keeping GitLab up and running.
• Polling: Configure how often the GitLab UI polls for updates.
• Request Profiling: Get a detailed profile on slow requests.

Customization

• Adjust your instance's timezone: Customize the default time zone of GitLab.
• Environment variables: Supported environment variables that can be used to override their defaults values in order to configure GitLab.
• Header logo: Change the logo on the overall page and email header.
• Issue closing pattern: Customize how to close an issue from commit messages.
• Libravatar: Use Libravatar instead of Gravatar for user avatars.
• Welcome message: Add a custom welcome message to the sign-in page.

Admin tools

• Raketasks: Backups, maintenance, automatic webhook setup and the importing of projects.
  • Backup and restore: Backup and restore your GitLab instance.
• Reply by email: Allow users to comment on issues and merge requests by replying to notification emails.
• Repository checks: Periodic Git repository checks.
• Repository storage paths: Manage the paths used to store repositories.
• Security: Learn what you can do to further secure your GitLab instance.
• System hooks: Notifications when users, projects and keys are changed.

Troubleshooting

• Debugging tips: Tips to debug problems when things go wrong
• Log system: Where to look for logs.
• Sidekiq Troubleshooting: Debug when Sidekiq appears hung and is not processing jobs.

Contributor documentation

• Development: All styleguides and explanations how to contribute.
• Legal: Contributor license agreements.
• Writing documentation: Contributing to GitLab Docs.