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diff --git a/doc/administration/enviroment_variables.md b/doc/administration/enviroment_variables.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..d7f5cb7c21f --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/administration/enviroment_variables.md @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +# Environment Variables + +## Introduction + +Commonly people configure GitLab via the gitlab.rb configuration file in the Omnibus package. + +But if you prefer to use environment variables we allow that too. + +## Supported environment variables + +Variable | Type | Explanation +--- | --- | --- +GITLAB_ROOT_PASSWORD | string | sets the password for the `root` user on installation +GITLAB_HOST | url | hostname of the GitLab server includes http or https +RAILS_ENV | production/development/staging/test | Rails environment +DATABASE_URL | url | For example: postgresql://localhost/blog_development?pool=5 + +## Complete database variables + +As explained in the [Heroku documentation](https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/rails-database-connection-behavior) the DATABASE_URL doesn't let you set: + +- adapter +- database +- username +- password +- host +- port + +To do so please `cp config/database.yml.env config/database.yml` and use the following variables: + +Variable | Default +--- | --- +GITLAB_DATABASE_ADAPTER | postgresql +GITLAB_DATABASE_ENCODING | unicode +GITLAB_DATABASE_DATABASE | gitlab_#{ENV['RAILS_ENV'] +GITLAB_DATABASE_POOL | 10 +GITLAB_DATABASE_USERNAME | root +GITLAB_DATABASE_PASSWORD | +GITLAB_DATABASE_HOST | localhost +GITLAB_DATABASE_PORT | 5432 + +## Other variables + +We welcome merge requests to make more settings configurable via variables. +Please stick to the naming scheme "GITLAB_#{name 1_settings.rb in upper case}". |