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authorJoshua Lambert <joshua@gitlab.com>2018-06-21 16:07:15 -0400
committerJoshua Lambert <joshua@gitlab.com>2018-06-21 16:07:15 -0400
commita28c8b88cd8072dcade16979b83713057cc1dd23 (patch)
treed9a232162dbcded48f92bdb6cf46bbf7b4f70b99
parentb7b88f439ad89e633eb9f9ac30724bbc1a28bae7 (diff)
downloadgitlab-ce-a28c8b88cd8072dcade16979b83713057cc1dd23.tar.gz
Add additional commands for Mac OS for retrieving the password
-rw-r--r--doc/install/kubernetes/gitlab_chart.md17
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diff --git a/doc/install/kubernetes/gitlab_chart.md b/doc/install/kubernetes/gitlab_chart.md
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+++ b/doc/install/kubernetes/gitlab_chart.md
@@ -81,13 +81,24 @@ the deployment is taking place if you run the command in another terminal.
### Initial login
-You can access the GitLab instance by visiting the domain specified during
-installation. If you manually created the secret for initial root password, you
-can use that to sign in as `root` user. If not, Gitlab would've automatically
+You can access the GitLab instance by visiting `gitlab.` and then the domain specified during installation. From the example above, the URL would be `https://gitlab.example.local`.
+
+If you manually created the secret for initial root password, you
+can use that to sign in as `root` user. If not, Gitlab automatically
created a random password for `root` user. This can be extracted by the
following command (replace `<name>` by name of the release - which is `gitlab`
if you used the command above)
+> **Note**: On some versions of Kubernetes a `%` will appear at the end of the password, do not include it.
+
+Mac OS:
+
+```
+kubectl get secret <name>-gitlab-initial-root-password -ojsonpath={.data.password} | base64 -D
+```
+
+Linux:
+
```
kubectl get secret <name>-gitlab-initial-root-password -ojsonpath={.data.password} | base64 -d
```