Commit d86cd7c3 authored by Richard Clamp's avatar Richard Clamp Committed by Marin Jankovski

Tidy up the documentation of Gitlab HA/Gitlab Application

parent 7ed3759e
# Configuring GitLab for HA
Assuming you have already configured a database, Redis, and NFS, you can
Assuming you have already configured a [database](database.md), [Redis](redis.md), and [NFS](nfs.md), you can
configure the GitLab application server(s) now. Complete the steps below
for each GitLab application server in your environment.
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data locations. See [NFS documentation](nfs.md) for `/etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb`
configuration values for various scenarios. The example below assumes you've
added NFS mounts in the default data locations.
```ruby
external_url 'https://gitlab.example.com'
# Prevent GitLab from starting if NFS data mounts are not available
high_availability['mountpoint'] = '/var/opt/gitlab/git-data'
# Disable components that will not be on the GitLab application server
postgresql['enable'] = false
redis['enable'] = false
roles ['application_role']
# PostgreSQL connection details
gitlab_rails['db_adapter'] = 'postgresql'
gitlab_rails['db_encoding'] = 'unicode'
gitlab_rails['db_host'] = '10.1.0.5' # IP/hostname of database server
gitlab_rails['db_password'] = 'DB password'
# Redis connection details
gitlab_rails['redis_port'] = '6379'
gitlab_rails['redis_host'] = '10.1.0.6' # IP/hostname of Redis server
gitlab_rails['redis_password'] = 'Redis Password'
```
> **Note:** To maintain uniformity of links across HA clusters, the `external_url`
on the first application server as well as the additional application
servers should point to the external url that users will use to access GitLab.
> **Note:** To maintain uniformity of links across HA clusters, the `external_url`
on the first application server as well as the additional application
servers should point to the external url that users will use to access GitLab.
In a typical HA setup, this will be the url of the load balancer which will
route traffic to all GitLab application servers in the HA cluster.
route traffic to all GitLab application servers in the HA cluster.
1. Run `sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure` to compile the configuration.
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