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# High Availability
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GitLab supports several different types of clustering and high-availability.
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The solution you choose will be based on the level of scalability and
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availability you require. The easiest solutions are scalable, but not necessarily
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highly available.
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## Architecture
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### Active/Passive
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For pure high-availability/failover with no scaling you can use an
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active/passive configuration. This utilizes DRBD (Distributed Replicated
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Block Device) to keep all data in sync. DRBD requires a low latency link to
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remain in sync. It is not advisable to attempt to run DRBD between data centers
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or in different cloud availability zones.
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Components/Servers Required:
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- 2 servers/virtual machines (one active/one passive)
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### Active/Active
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This architecture scales easily because all application servers handle
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user requests simultaneously. The database, Redis, and GitLab application are
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all deployed on separate servers. The configuration is **only** highly-available
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if the database, Redis and storage are also configured as such.
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2016-05-25 12:30:11 -04:00
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2016-04-22 14:18:06 -04:00
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**Steps to configure active/active:**
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1. [Configure the database](database.md)
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1. [Configure Redis](redis.md)
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1. [Configure NFS](nfs.md)
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1. [Configure the GitLab application servers](gitlab.md)
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1. [Configure the load balancers](load_balancer.md)
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