From 5915b219e3a6ff70fbaad3ed938428fddfc5997b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ernstvn Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 13:10:36 -0700 Subject: Make sketch dynamic and link back to production architecture --- doc/development/architecture.md | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/development/architecture.md b/doc/development/architecture.md index b36fd52603b..da40033a788 100644 --- a/doc/development/architecture.md +++ b/doc/development/architecture.md @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Both EE and CE require some add-on components called gitlab-shell and Gitaly. Th You can imagine GitLab as a physical office. -**The repositories** are the goods GitLab handling. +**The repositories** are the goods GitLab handles. They can be stored in a warehouse. This can be either a hard disk, or something more complex, such as a NFS filesystem; @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ To serve repositories over SSH there's an add-on application called gitlab-shell ### Components -![GitLab Diagram Overview](gitlab_architecture_diagram.png) + _[edit diagram (for GitLab team members only)](https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1fBzAyklyveF-i-2q-OHUIqDkYfjjxC4mq5shwKSZHLs/edit)_ @@ -66,7 +66,9 @@ When serving repositories over HTTP/HTTPS GitLab utilizes the GitLab API to reso The add-on component gitlab-shell serves repositories over SSH. It manages the SSH keys within `/home/git/.ssh/authorized_keys` which should not be manually edited. gitlab-shell accesses the bare repositories through Gitaly to serve git objects and communicates with redis to submit jobs to Sidekiq for GitLab to process. gitlab-shell queries the GitLab API to determine authorization and access. -Gitaly executes git operations from gitlab-shell and Workhorse, and provides an API to the GitLab web app to get attributes from git (e.g. title, branches, tags, other meta data), and to get blobs (e.g. diffs, commits, files) +Gitaly executes git operations from gitlab-shell and Workhorse, and provides an API to the GitLab web app to get attributes from git (e.g. title, branches, tags, other meta data), and to get blobs (e.g. diffs, commits, files). + +You may also be interested in the [production architecture of GitLab.com](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/infrastructure/production-architecture/). ### Installation Folder Summary -- cgit v1.2.1