Custom group-level project templates

Introduced in GitLab Premium 11.6.

When you create a new project, creating it based on custom project templates is a convenient option.

Users can configure a GitLab group that serves as template source under a group’s Settings > General > Custom project templates.

Note: GitLab administrators can set project templates for an entire GitLab instance.

Within this section, you can configure the group where all the custom project templates are sourced. Every project directly under the group namespace will be available to the user if they have access to them. For example, every public project in the group will be available to every logged in user.

However, private projects will be available only if the user is a member of the project.

Note: Only direct subgroups can be set as the template source. Projects of nested subgroups of a selected template source cannot be used.

Repository and database information that are copied over to each new project are identical to the data exported with GitLab’s Project Import/Export.