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| author | Diana Stanley <dstanley@gitlab.com> | 2019-06-18 11:59:47 -0700 |
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| committer | Diana Stanley <dstanley@gitlab.com> | 2019-06-18 11:59:47 -0700 |
| commit | 17b32d6713ca98a3f8692f1778217b2c1fdcf34f (patch) | |
| tree | cb3d4be8b7e3b22abb50953d0a3a55d4670ee52d | |
| parent | 2ffd71f8f1e7957ada82733b36a568ab316d60f2 (diff) | |
| download | gitlab-ce-17b32d6713ca98a3f8692f1778217b2c1fdcf34f.tar.gz | |
Update gitaly docs to enumerate how to eliminate NFS altogether
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diff --git a/doc/administration/gitaly/index.md b/doc/administration/gitaly/index.md index 53a85dfad6c..f363baaece9 100644 --- a/doc/administration/gitaly/index.md +++ b/doc/administration/gitaly/index.md @@ -432,6 +432,24 @@ gitaly_enabled=false When you run `service gitlab restart` Gitaly will be disabled on this particular machine. +## Eliminating NFS altogether + +If you are planning to use gitaly without NFS for your storage needs +and want to eliminate NFS from your environment altogether, there are +a few things that you need to do: + +1) make sure the [`git` user home directory](https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/settings/configuration.html#moving-the-home-directory-for-a-user) is on local disk +2) configure [database lookup of ssh keys](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/operations/fast_ssh_key_lookup.html) + to eliminate the need for a shared authorized_keys file +3) configure [object storage for job artifacts](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/job_artifacts.html#using-object-storage) + including [live tracing](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/job_traces.html#new-live-trace-architecture) +4) configure [object storage for LFS objects](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/workflow/lfs/lfs_administration.html#storing-lfs-objects-in-remote-object-storage) +5) configure [object storage for uploads](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/uploads.html#using-object-storage-core-only) + +NOTE: **Note:** One current feature of GitLab still requires a shared directory (NFS): Pages. +There is [work in progress](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-pages/issues/196) +to eliminate the need for NFS to support Pages. + ## Troubleshooting Gitaly in production Since GitLab 11.6, Gitaly comes with a command-line tool called |