swarkentin / fas-demo-gitlab

Installation

• Clone the repository and cd into it Create a .env file in the root with

GITLAB_ROOT_PASSWORD=<something complicated>
MAPI_TOKEN=<your mapi token>

This password will be used as both root login password, runner registration token and root API token.

Execute:

docker-compose up -d

The configgers should wait until Gitlab is up and running (via health check).

When the containers are up, find gitlab at localhost:8080, log in with username root and the password from your .env file.

When you want to stop

Shut down with

docker-compose stop

(not down, since Gitlab will reinstall itself afterwards then)

Also, when it's sucking up CPU, use the docker-compose pause and docker-compose unpause commands.

Cheat sheet

Pushing a repo into Gitlab

git push --set-upstream http://root:<password>@localhost:8080/root/$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel | xargs basename).git $(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)

Pip dependencies needed for the python3 script to get a PAT

pip3 install requests bs4 lxml

Gitlab allows you to mirror a Github repository but it's not available for Gitlab CE: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/ci_cd_for_external_repos/

So we're doing it with a docker container that checks for and pushes changes every X seconds.