GitLab VPSYour Git forge, your CI/CD pipelines and your issues, on your own server

GitLab is a DevOps platform published by GitLab Inc. It brings Git repository hosting, code review through merge requests, continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), issue tracking, a wiki and a package registry together in one application.

GitLab Community Edition, from the official gitlab/gitlab-ce image. It is released under the MIT licence and used with no licence fee. The features of the Premium and Ultimate tiers belong to the Enterprise Edition under a GitLab subscription: they are not included, and we do not sell GitLab licences.

GitLab's documentation gives 8 vCPU and 16 GB of memory as the baseline for a single-server installation, and 40 GB of disk for the application. It says GitLab can run with 8 GB in a memory-constrained environment, but One Click Apps reserves 1 GB for the system and the platform: an 8 GB VPS would leave GitLab less than that minimum. We therefore only offer plans that meet the recommended baseline. Also plan for the space your repositories, artifacts and packages will take.

Once the VPS is created, the One Click Apps platform installs and then deploys GitLab. Its first start takes several minutes. The HTTPS address and the generated administrator password are shown in the application's Overview tab: sign in with the root user, then create your groups, your projects and your team's accounts.

GitLab orchestrates pipelines, but GitLab Runners run the jobs, and none is deployed with GitLab. Install GitLab Runner on this VPS over SSH or on another machine, then register it in GitLab's CI/CD settings. A runner installed on the same VPS shares its processor and memory with GitLab: choose a larger plan if your builds are heavy.

Yes. Cloning over HTTPS works from the moment GitLab is deployed. Git over SSH is served on port 2222 of the VPS, already shown in GitLab's clone URLs: add a rule allowing that port in your VPS's Firewall tab, then add your SSH key to your GitLab profile.

GitLab's configuration, data and log volumes are backed up every day at 3 am and kept for 7 days, on the VPS disk: they protect you from a mistake in the application, not from losing the server. For that, add the VPS backup option (from €4.99 excl. VAT/month) or take a snapshot. GitLab also ships its own backup tool, which you can run over SSH.

The console detects new versions and shows an Update available banner. You start the update when you decide to: data volumes are kept. The deployed image follows GitLab's latest release, and GitLab requires intermediate versions for some version changes: update regularly and take a backup before every major update.

Yes. Add it in the application's Domains tab. If the DNS zone is managed at OnetSolutions, the A record is created for you; otherwise, the console shows you the IP address to point to. The HTTPS certificate is issued automatically.

Our support covers the VPS: the server, its network, its storage and its availability. GitLab, its configuration, your runners, your projects, your user accounts and updates remain your responsibility: the console gives you the tools to manage them, and you keep root access to the server.