Commit 7de9fd1a authored by Thong Kuah's avatar Thong Kuah Committed by Marcia Ramos

Add instructions how to setup GDK for multiple databases

parent 22d34ab1
......@@ -15,10 +15,46 @@ To scale GitLab, the we are
database for CI/CD tables was [introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/64289)
in GitLab 14.1. This feature is still under development, and is not ready for production use.
### Development setup
By default, GitLab is configured to use only one main database. To
opt-in to use a main database, and CI database, modify the
`config/database.yml` file to have a `main` and a `ci` database
configurations. For example, given a `config/database.yml` like below:
configurations.
You can set this up using [GDK](#gdk-configuration) or by
[manually configuring `config/database.yml`](#manually-set-up-the-cicd-database).
#### GDK configuration
If you are using GDK, you can follow the following steps:
1. On the GDK root directory, run:
```shell
gdk config set gitlab.rails.multiple_databases true
```
1. Open your `gdk.yml`, and confirm that it has the following lines:
```yaml
gitlab:
rails:
multiple_databases: true
```
1. Reconfigure GDK:
```shell
gdk reconfigure
```
1. [Create the new CI/CD database](#create-the-new-database).
#### Manually set up the CI/CD database
You can manually edit `config/database.yml` to split the databases.
To do so, consider a `config/database.yml` file like the example below:
```yaml
development:
......@@ -44,7 +80,7 @@ test: &test
statement_timeout: 120s
```
Edit the `config/database.yml` to look like this:
Edit it to split the databases into `main` and `ci`:
```yaml
development:
......@@ -88,6 +124,25 @@ test: &test
statement_timeout: 120s
```
Next, [create the new CI/CD database](#create-the-new-database).
#### Create the new database
After configuring GitLab for the two databases, create the new CI/CD database:
1. Create the new `ci:` database, load the DB schema into the `ci:` database,
and run any pending migrations:
```shell
bundle exec rails rails db:create db:schema:load:ci db:migrate
```
1. Restart GDK:
```shell
gdk restart
```
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