GitLab Helm chart 1.0

We have been working hard on the chart and it’s underlying containers, and are excited to reach general availability and share it with the GitLab community.

This effort has required extensive changes across the product:

  • Support for directly uploading to object storage
  • No dependency on shared storage
  • New containers for each component of GitLab
  • New Helm chart

Breaking changes from Beta

Several changes occurred during the beta cycle, which require being addressed prior to the use of the general availability charts. These will require changes to related values, if deviated from the previous defaults.

The list of breaking changes:

Known issues and limitations

The chart and containers are a work in progress, and not all features are fully functional. Below is a list of the known issues and limitations, although it may not be exhaustive. We recommend also reviewing the open issues.

Helm chart issues/limitations:

Features that are currently out of scope:

Release cadence

We will be releasing a new version of the chart with each new GitLab patch.

More information on how we are versioning the chart can be found in the release documentation.

Along with the issues and merge requests in this repository, a changelog is available to more easily follow along with updates.

Kubernetes deployment support

GitLab development and testing is taking place on Google Kubernetes Engine, however other Kubernetes deployments should also work. In the event of a specific non-GKE deployment issue, please raise an issue.

We are currently using Kubernetes version 1.8.12 in our automated tests, and 1.9.7 for development.

Technical support

Before opening an issue please review the known issues and limitations, and search to see if a similar issue already exists.

We greatly appreciate the wider testing of the community, and encourage detailed issues to be reported so we can address them.

We welcome any improvements contributed in the form of Merge Requests.