OpenShift Omnibus GitLab Release Process

Note: This document is deprecated. We now recommend the official Kubernetes Helm charts for OpenShift also. Check out release documentation for the charts for details.

New GitLab templates for OpenShift are prepared as part of our cloud image release process.

Update the template to latest GitLab release

Within the template we reference our Docker image. Go to https://hub.docker.com/r/gitlab/gitlab-ce/tags and find the newest descriptive tag. e.g. 8.13.3-ce.0

Then update the image stream in the template with the name and tag: 

{
  "kind": "ImageStream",
  "apiVersion": "v1",
  "metadata": {
    "name": "${APPLICATION_NAME}",
    "labels": {
      "app": "${APPLICATION_NAME}"
    }
  },
  "spec": {
    "tags": [
      {
        "name": "8.13.3", /* <-- Change this */
        "from": {
          "kind": "DockerImage",
          "name": "gitlab/gitlab-ce:8.13.3-ce.0" /* <-- Change this */
        }
      }
    ]
  }
},

And then also update the GitLab Deployment config to use the new tag in it’s ImageChange trigger: 

{
  "type": "ImageChange",
  "imageChangeParams": {
    "automatic": true,
    "containerNames": [
      "gitlab-ce"
    ],
    "from": {
      "kind": "ImageStreamTag",
      "name": "${APPLICATION_NAME}:8.13.3" /* <-- Change this */
    }
  }
}

Test

For setting up a OpenShift Origin development environment for testing see doc/development/openshift/README.md.

Set up a new GitLab install using the updated template. Smoke test the install:

  1. Login works
  2. Create project succeeds
  3. Readme can be created through the UI
  4. Repo can be clone and pushed to over http

Submit new Merge Request

Push your updated template into a New Merge request on GitLab.com against the master branch

Notify

Once the Merge Request has been accepted, alert the #gitlab-openshift Slack channel that a new version has been pushed to master. Effectively handing off the template to OpenShift for inclusion in the all-in-one.