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diff --git a/doc/administration/high_availability/gitlab.md b/doc/administration/high_availability/gitlab.md index 137fed35a73..42666357faf 100644 --- a/doc/administration/high_availability/gitlab.md +++ b/doc/administration/high_availability/gitlab.md @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ configure the GitLab application server(s) now. Complete the steps below for each GitLab application server in your environment. > **Note:** There is some additional configuration near the bottom for - secondary GitLab application servers. It's important to read and understand + additional GitLab application servers. It's important to read and understand these additional steps before proceeding with GitLab installation. 1. If necessary, install the NFS client utility packages using the following @@ -70,10 +70,16 @@ for each GitLab application server in your environment. gitlab_rails['redis_host'] = '10.1.0.6' # IP/hostname of Redis server gitlab_rails['redis_password'] = 'Redis Password' ``` + + > **Note:** To maintain uniformity of links across HA clusters, the `external_url` + on the first application server as well as the additional application + servers should point to the external url that users will use to access GitLab. + In a typical HA setup, this will be the url of the load balancer which will + route traffic to all GitLab application servers in the HA cluster. 1. Run `sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure` to compile the configuration. -## Primary GitLab application server +## First GitLab application server As a final step, run the setup rake task on the first GitLab application server. It is not necessary to run this on additional application servers. @@ -89,10 +95,10 @@ It is not necessary to run this on additional application servers. [Nginx documentation](http://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/settings/nginx.html#enable-https) for more information. -## Additional configuration for secondary GitLab application servers +## Extra configuration for additional GitLab application servers -Secondary GitLab servers (servers configured **after** the first GitLab server) -need some additional configuration. +Additional GitLab servers (servers configured **after** the first GitLab server) +need some extra configuration. 1. Configure shared secrets. These values can be obtained from the primary GitLab server in `/etc/gitlab/gitlab-secrets.json`. Add these to |