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diff --git a/doc/administration/gitaly/index.md b/doc/administration/gitaly/index.md index 53a85dfad6c..da8f1ee1529 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. + 1. Configure [database lookup of SSH keys](https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/administration/operations/fast_ssh_key_lookup.html) + to eliminate the need for a shared authorized_keys file. + 1. Configure [object storage for job artifacts](https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/administration/job_artifacts.html#using-object-storage) + including [live tracing](https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/administration/job_traces.html#new-live-trace-architecture). + 1. Configure [object storage for LFS objects](https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/workflow/lfs/lfs_administration.html#storing-lfs-objects-in-remote-object-storage). + 1. Configure [object storage for uploads](https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/administration/uploads.html#using-object-storage-core-only). + +NOTE: **Note:** One current feature of GitLab still requires a shared directory (NFS): [GitLab Pages](../../user/project/pages/index.md). +There is [work in progress](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-pages/issues/196) +to eliminate the need for NFS to support GitLab Pages. + ## Troubleshooting Gitaly in production Since GitLab 11.6, Gitaly comes with a command-line tool called |