About
GitLab is a web-based DevOps life cycle tool that provides a Git-repository manager providing wiki, issue-tracking and CI/CD pipeline features.
GitLab started as an open source project to help teams collaborate on software development. By delivering new functionality at an industry-leading pace, GitLab now provides a single application for the entire software development and operations life cycle. It also provides everything you need to Manage, Plan, Create, Verify, Package, Release, Configure, Monitor, and Secure your applications.
How to access GÉANT GitLab
- Go to Gitlab.geant.org
- Click on "Federated Authentication" and follow the authentication process with your Identity Provider
- Account will be automatically created if you are GN4-3 project member.
- You will get a message that your access is denied (or that access without a pre-existing GitLab account is not allowed) if you are outside the GN4-3 project. If such a situation occurs, follow the guide Requesting access for collaborator from outside GÉANT Project.
Short guides
How to invite existing GitLab member to project
In order to invite existing members to an existing project first we need to go to the project itself. Than click on Settings > Members > Invite member tab.
Select a member, choose a role permission, expiration date if needed and click Add to project. Shortly after, an email should arrive at the email address of the invited member.
How to setup a new project and invite project members
1. Go to Gitlab.geant.org and login with your credentials.
2. You will be provided with the home page on which you can create your first GitLab project or otherwise it will list the already created ones.
3. You can create a new group and than invite other members to that group in order to collaborate to the assigned project's or directly create a new one. In this case we will create a new group with name "mynewgroup".
4. Now we will add members on mynewgroup and assign the member permissions. More information about members permissions here
5. Now that we have added members to mynewgroup we can start create new project. Go to Projects > Your projects > Create a project. Than we can specifie a name (1), the group (2), visibility (3) and Create!
