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authorMike Lewis <mlewis@gitlab.com>2018-06-22 18:48:49 +0000
committerMike Lewis <mlewis@gitlab.com>2018-06-22 18:48:49 +0000
commitc1fa6f7c88e2d751ffd03ea001d8dbbdfdb5e5cc (patch)
treeda3ed14575f8fd0e97bdee536f50a1a785011dbd
parent59d48848b87eacc7f9c442c220a484470fb3b78a (diff)
parent2eb168c6494376a2485b2904e022f0de5a015fa9 (diff)
downloadgitlab-ce-48315-add-jsconfig-json-file-to-map-our-custom-webpack-resolve-paths.tar.gz
Merge branch 'jl-helm-polish-docs' into 'master'48315-add-jsconfig-json-file-to-map-our-custom-webpack-resolve-paths
Minor fixes for the Helm docs See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!20078
-rw-r--r--doc/install/kubernetes/gitlab_chart.md15
-rw-r--r--doc/install/kubernetes/index.md4
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/doc/install/kubernetes/gitlab_chart.md b/doc/install/kubernetes/gitlab_chart.md
index 3d16b3cadd8..48f3df1925a 100644
--- a/doc/install/kubernetes/gitlab_chart.md
+++ b/doc/install/kubernetes/gitlab_chart.md
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Currently out of scope:
In order to deploy GitLab on Kubernetes, a few prerequisites are required.
1. `helm` and `kubectl` [installed on your computer](preparation/tools_installation.md).
-1. A Kubernetes cluster, version 1.8 or higher. 4vCPU and 16GB of RAM is recommended.
+1. A Kubernetes cluster, version 1.8 or higher. 6vCPU and 16GB of RAM is recommended.
* [Google GKE](https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/how-to/creating-a-container-cluster)
* [Amazon EKS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/getting-started.html)
* [Microsoft AKS](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/kubernetes-walkthrough-portal)
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ run helm. In this example, we've named our helm release "gitlab".
```
helm repo add gitlab https://charts.gitlab.io/
-helm dependencies update
+helm update
helm upgrade --install gitlab gitlab/gitlab \
--timeout 600 \
--set global.hosts.domain=example.local \
@@ -81,15 +81,16 @@ 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 the domain name beginning with `gitlab.` followed by 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)
+if you used the command above).
```
-kubectl get secret <name>-gitlab-initial-root-password -ojsonpath={.data.password} | base64 -d
+kubectl get secret <name>-gitlab-initial-root-password -ojsonpath={.data.password} | base64 --decode
```
## Outgoing email
diff --git a/doc/install/kubernetes/index.md b/doc/install/kubernetes/index.md
index b1cecf46697..6419a9dcb69 100644
--- a/doc/install/kubernetes/index.md
+++ b/doc/install/kubernetes/index.md
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ should be deployed, upgraded, and configured.
## Chart Overview
-* **[GitLab Chart](https://gitlab.com/charts/gitlab/blob/master/README.md)**: The recommended GitLab chart, currently in beta. Support large deployments with horizontal scaling of individual GitLab components, and does not require NFS.
+* **[GitLab Chart](gitlab_chart.html)**: The recommended GitLab chart, currently in beta. Supports large deployments with horizontal scaling of individual GitLab components, and does not require NFS.
* **[GitLab Runner Chart](gitlab_runner_chart.md)**: For deploying just the GitLab Runner.
* Other Charts
* [GitLab-Omnibus](gitlab_omnibus.md): Chart based on the Omnibus GitLab linux package, only suitable for small deployments. The chart will be deprecated by the [GitLab chart](#gitlab-chart) when it is GA.
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ should be deployed, upgraded, and configured.
The best way to operate GitLab on Kubernetes. This chart contains all the required components to get started, and can scale to large deployments.
-This chart includes a number of benefits:
+This chart offers a number of benefits:
* Horizontal scaling of individual components
* No requirement for shared storage to scale
* Containers do not need `root` permissions