Self-host GitLab with Docker

GitLab Community Edition: Git hosting, CI/CD, issues, and a container registry in one Omnibus image.

This page describes the Levelrail template for GitLab (Developer Tools). It deploys the services below as one Docker Compose app on your own server.

Recommended memory: about 4096 MiB.

Services, ports and volumes

Service	Image	Container ports	Volumes
`gitlab`	`gitlab/gitlab-ce:17.5.2-ce.0`	80, 22	`gitlab_config -> /etc/gitlab` `gitlab_logs -> /var/log/gitlab` `gitlab_data -> /var/opt/gitlab`

Service	Variable	Value
`gitlab`	`GITLAB_OMNIBUS_CONFIG`	Preset in the template
`gitlab`	`GITLAB_ROOT_PASSWORD`	Generated at deploy

Passwords and keys marked as generated are created for you when the app is deployed and stored as secrets. Values are not shown here.

In the dashboard, open Apps, choose New app, then Browse templates, and select GitLab. Review the Compose body and deploy.

With the CLI:

levelrail-cli templates deploy gitlab --name my-gitlab

See Service template catalog for how templates work, and Getting started if you have not installed Levelrail yet.

All templates are listed in the self-host gallery.