GitSwarm-EE 2017.2-1 Documentation


Auto provision

By default GitLab will automatically provision a Helix Server and connected Helix Git Fusion for you.

If you wish to use an existing Helix Git Fusion instance you can comment out the 'local' instance and add new config entries:

#gitswarm['git-fusion']['local']['url']          = :auto_provision
#gitswarm['git-fusion']['local']['password']     = '<PASSWORD>'

Instructions on configuring the connection to external Helix Git Fusion can be found here.

When GitLab is left in its local auto-provision mode, the Helix Server is configured with the following configuration:

When the root user password is updated from the GitLab UI the password change will also take effect for the root Perforce user.

If :auto_provision is not specified in /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb when sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure is executed any running auto provisioned instance will be shut down and disabled from automatic start up on boot in the p4dctl configuration.

The following steps are taken when a default Helix Git Fusion is configured:

If :auto_provision is not specified in /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb when sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure is executed the cron task will be removed.