Install Gitlab on AWS

Question

My company has a master codebase and several instances of the same codebase i.e company.com/instance1, company.com/instance2, company.com/instance3 and so on running on AWS and a mysql database.

I thought it would help if we install gitlab on AWS as it would simplify our overall developement process. Is this a good idea ?.

I am confused as to whether we have to install centOS on AWS to install gitlab or does gitlab will work on AWS without centos.

I am puzzled as in my local centos system i have installed gitlab locally and i have trouble setting up URL's.

The users need to type company.com/instance to get what is required and already people have started using it on AWS.

May be i have do CI and deploy the code on AWS ? How does this work?

Will gitlab work well in LAMP environment on an already existing AWS server instance? how to go about the same?

Answer 1

GitLab should work as an Amazon Machine Image

As explained in GitLab CE AWS AMI:

Search for GitLab CE X.Y (X.Y represent version number) under Community AMIs.
The latest version of GitLab CE will be fetched on first boot.

Launch a c4.large instance with open ports for ssh, http and https.

SSH into the instance with ubuntu@your-instance, edit the /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb file to your needs, and run:

sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure

Visit the public IP in a browser and sign in as the default user

username: root
password: 5iveL!fe