From e4028988b4f8428609abca36c92bfeca747bbefd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chenjerai Katanda Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 17:23:39 +0000 Subject: Add note on external url setting for HA clusters. --- doc/administration/high_availability/gitlab.md | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/administration/high_availability/gitlab.md b/doc/administration/high_availability/gitlab.md index 137fed35a73..e2cf281bc49 100644 --- a/doc/administration/high_availability/gitlab.md +++ b/doc/administration/high_availability/gitlab.md @@ -70,6 +70,12 @@ 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 master as well as all secondary application servers should point to the + eventual 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. -- cgit v1.2.1