Using a Geo Server

After you set up the database replication and configure the Geo nodes, use your closest GitLab node as you would a normal standalone GitLab instance.

Pushing directly to a secondary node (for both HTTP, SSH including Git LFS) was introduced in GitLab Premium 11.3.

Example of the output you will see when pushing to a secondary node:

$ git push
remote:
remote: You're pushing to a Geo secondary. We'll help you by proxying this
remote: request to the primary:
remote:
remote:   ssh://git@primary.geo/user/repo.git
remote:
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