[SAC] Introduction

[Björn Harrtell]

2016-08-09 18:57 GMT+02:00 Vincent Picavet (ml) <vincent.ml at oslandia.com>:

> Hello,
>
> On 09/08/2016 17:58, Sandro Santilli wrote:
> > Vincent Picavet donated a VM for some time on which a GitLab instance
> > was installed but I was blocked by being unable to configure a reverse
> > proxy to make it appear as published in a subdir
> > (git.osgeo.org/gitlab). Vincent confirmed on IRC (vpicavet, on #osgeo
> > @ freenode) that he could renew the host for another 3 months if
> > needed. You'll still need to provide instructions to setup an Apache
> > reverse proxy to pair with the Gogs instance, and you'll need to
> > configure the service to use the OSGeo LDAPs. Then, ideally, there
> > should be some branding.
>

Should be no problem. Who can change the Apache config?


> I can provide a (small but enough for testing) VM for a few month. The
> existing one expired during my holidays, we would have to set it up again.
> The Gitlab install through the omnibus package on Debian is fairly easy
> (3 LOC), but may need additional configuration for advanced features.
>
> Tell me if you need the VM and I reorder it and send you the access.
>
> > This is what I initially did for Gogs, saving all the configuration
> > in a git repository that was later used to configure an instance
> > on one of the OSGeo machines. For Gogs it was easy to deploy as
> > Gogs is a simple executable with some templates, and no other
> > depdencies. For GitLab, the docker solution would be currently
> > unavailable with the existing VMs so it'd still take obtaining a
> > new VM to take that approach. Alternative approaches may be evaluated.
>
> Indeed, no docker gitlab on this kind of VM. Installation through
> Omnibus is easy too.


> > Looking forward for a plan :)
>
> Tell me for the VM, I have unfortunately little time to spend for
> installation / configuration.
>

Debian based VM sounds good. I have no strong preference towards Docker and
as you say install on Debian seems easy. If it goes beyond testing in the
future perhaps Docker-based hosting should be considered, but lets save
that for another day.


>
> Best regards,
>
> Vincent
>
>
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