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Digital Ocean and Docker Machine test environment
Warning. This guide is for quickly testing different versions of GitLab and
not recommended for ease of future upgrades or keeping the data you create.
Initial setup
In this guide you'll configure a Digital Ocean droplet and set up Docker locally on either macOS or Linux.
On macOS
Install Docker Toolbox
On Linux
Install Docker Engine
Install Docker Machine
The rest of the steps are identical for macOS and Linux
Create new docker host
- Login to Digital Ocean
- Generate a new API token at https://cloud.digitalocean.com/settings/api/tokens
This command will create a new DO droplet called gitlab-test-env-do
that will act as a docker host.
Note: 4GB is the minimum requirement for a Docker host that will run more then one GitLab instance
- RAM: 4GB
- Name:
gitlab-test-env-do
- Driver:
digitalocean
Set the DO token - Replace the string below with your generated token
export DOTOKEN=cf3dfd0662933203005c4a73396214b7879d70aabc6352573fe178d340a80248
Create the machine
docker-machine create \
--driver digitalocean \
--digitalocean-access-token=$DOTOKEN \
--digitalocean-size "4gb" \
gitlab-test-env-do
Creating GitLab test instance
Connect your shell to the new machine
In this example we'll create a GitLab EE 8.10.8 instance.
First connect the docker client to the docker host you created previously.
eval "$(docker-machine env gitlab-test-env-do)"
You can add this to your ~/.bash_profile
file to ensure the docker
client uses the gitlab-test-env-do
docker host
Create new GitLab container
- HTTP port:
8888
- SSH port:
2222
- Set
gitlab_shell_ssh_port
using--env GITLAB_OMNIBUS_CONFIG
- Set
- Hostname: IP of docker host
- Container name:
gitlab-test-8.10
- GitLab version: EE
8.10.8-ee.0
Set up container settings
export SSH_PORT=2222
export HTTP_PORT=8888
export VERSION=8.10.8-ee.0
export NAME=gitlab-test-8.10
Create container
docker run --detach \
--env GITLAB_OMNIBUS_CONFIG="external_url 'http://$(docker-machine ip gitlab-test-env-do):$HTTP_PORT'; gitlab_rails['gitlab_shell_ssh_port'] = $SSH_PORT;" \
--hostname $(docker-machine ip gitlab-test-env-do) \
-p $HTTP_PORT:$HTTP_PORT -p $SSH_PORT:22 \
--name $NAME \
gitlab/gitlab-ee:$VERSION
Connect to the GitLab container
Retrieve the docker host IP
docker-machine ip gitlab-test-env-do
# example output: 192.168.151.134
- Browse to: http://192.168.151.134:8888/
Execute interactive shell/edit configuration
docker exec -it $NAME /bin/bash
# example commands
root@192:/# vi /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb
root@192:/# gitlab-ctl reconfigure