After you set up the [database replication and configure the Geo nodes][req],
After you set up the [database replication and configure the Geo nodes][req], use your closest GitLab node as you would a normal standalone GitLab instance.
there are a few things to consider:
Users need an extra step to be able to fetch code from the secondary and push to primary:
Pushing directly to a **secondary** node (for both HTTP, SSH including git-lfs) was [introduced](https://about.gitlab.com/2018/09/22/gitlab-11-3-released/) in [GitLab Premium](https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/#self-managed) 11.3.
1. Clone the repository as you would normally do, but from the secondary node:
Example of the output you will see when pushing to a **secondary** node: