Commit d97df434 authored by Evan Read's avatar Evan Read

Merge branch 'docs-abuerer-clarify-secondary-runner' into 'master'

Update misleading automated tests note in Geo documentation

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!24883
parents e6cc1283 914acffa
...@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Implementing Geo provides the following benefits: ...@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Implementing Geo provides the following benefits:
- Reduce from minutes to seconds the time taken for your distributed developers to clone and fetch large repositories and projects. - Reduce from minutes to seconds the time taken for your distributed developers to clone and fetch large repositories and projects.
- Enable all of your developers to contribute ideas and work in parallel, no matter where they are. - Enable all of your developers to contribute ideas and work in parallel, no matter where they are.
- Balance the load between your **primary** and **secondary** nodes, or offload your automated tests to a **secondary** node. - Balance the read-only load between your **primary** and **secondary** nodes.
In addition, it: In addition, it:
...@@ -249,6 +249,7 @@ This list of limitations only reflects the latest version of GitLab. If you are ...@@ -249,6 +249,7 @@ This list of limitations only reflects the latest version of GitLab. If you are
- [Selective synchronization](configuration.md#selective-synchronization) applies only to files and repositories. Other datasets are replicated to the **secondary** node in full, making it inappropriate for use as an access control mechanism. - [Selective synchronization](configuration.md#selective-synchronization) applies only to files and repositories. Other datasets are replicated to the **secondary** node in full, making it inappropriate for use as an access control mechanism.
- Object pools for forked project deduplication work only on the **primary** node, and are duplicated on the **secondary** node. - Object pools for forked project deduplication work only on the **primary** node, and are duplicated on the **secondary** node.
- [External merge request diffs](../../merge_request_diffs.md) will not be replicated if they are on-disk, and viewing merge requests will fail. However, external MR diffs in object storage **are** supported. The default configuration (in-database) does work. - [External merge request diffs](../../merge_request_diffs.md) will not be replicated if they are on-disk, and viewing merge requests will fail. However, external MR diffs in object storage **are** supported. The default configuration (in-database) does work.
- GitLab Runners cannot register with a **secondary** node. Support for this is [planned for the future](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/issues/3294).
### Limitations on replication/verification ### Limitations on replication/verification
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