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Preparing a build environment

See Preparing a Build Environment page for instructions on how to prepare build environment using Docker.

Usage

Build

You create a platform-specific package using the build command:

$ bin/omnibus build gitlab

The platform/architecture type of the package created will match the platform where the build project command is invoked. So running this command on say a MacBook Pro will generate a Mac OS X specific package. After the build completes packages will be available in pkg/.

Clean

You can clean up all temporary files generated during the build process with the clean command:

$ bin/omnibus clean

Adding the --purge purge option removes ALL files generated during the build including the project install directory (/opt/gitlab) and the package cache directory (/var/cache/omnibus/pkg):

$ bin/omnibus clean --purge

Help

Full help for the Omnibus command line interface can be accessed with the help command:

$ bin/omnibus help

Build Docker image

# Build with stable packagecloud packages
# This will build gitlab-ee (8.0.2-ee.1) using STABLE repo and tag it as gitlab-ee:latest
make docker_build RELEASE_VERSION=8.0.2-ee.1 PACKAGECLOUD_REPO=gitlab-ee RELEASE_PACKAGE=gitlab-ee

# Build with unstable packagecloud packages
# This will build gitlab-ce (8.0.2-ce.1) using UNSTABLE repo and tag it as gitlab-ce:latest
make docker_build RELEASE_VERSION=8.0.2-ce.1 PACKAGECLOUD_REPO=unstable RELEASE_PACKAGE=gitlab-ce

Publish Docker image

# This will push gitlab-ee:latest as gitlab/gitlab-ee:8.0.2-ee.1
make docker_push RELEASE_PACKAGE=gitlab-ee RELEASE_VERSION=8.0.2-ee.1

# This will push gitlab-ce:latest as gitlab/gitlab-ce:8.0.2-ce.1
make docker_push RELEASE_PACKAGE=gitlab-ce RELEASE_VERSION=8.0.2-ce.1

# This will push gitlab-ce:latest as gitlab/gitlab-ce:latest
make docker_push_latest RELEASE_PACKAGE=gitlab-ce

Building a package from a custom branch

Note For a description on how the official omnibus-gitlab package is built, see the release process document.

If you are working on implementing a feature in one of the GitLab components, you might need to build a package from your custom branch in order to test the feature using the omnibus-gitlab package.

For example, you've implemented something inside of GitLab Rails application and the code is located in the branch named my-feature.

To use the custom branch for building an omnibus-gitlab package, you will need to put the branch name in VERSION file inside of omnibus-gitlab repository.

The same works for specifying commits also. If you want to build a package that will use a specific commit, you have to place the SHA of that commit in the VERSION file.

For example, if you want to build a package that will use a branch named my-feature-branch, VERSION file in omnibus-repo should contain the text my-feature-branch. Similary, if you want to build a package that will use a specific commit, say this one, VERSION file should contain the text 46973f3d4602c7ea6366d6401116b89d72b83b9e, which is the SHA of that commit.

Similarly, you can do the same for GITLAB_WORKHORSE_VERSION and so on.

Note: Name of this custom branch should not match the format of a SemVer version, that is xx.yy.zz. This is because omnibus-gitlab will append a v before the branch name, mistaking it for a version tag. Example, branch name can not be 0.5.0 as omnibus-gitlab will automatically make it v0.5.0.

Building an EE package

To build a GitLab EE package, set the environment variable ee to true (run the command $ export ee=true) before starting the build. It will make omnibus-gitlab pull the EE repo instead of CE one and build an EE package.

Note for GitLab Inc. developers

If you are a member of the GitLab Inc. team, you will have access to the build infrastructure (or to the colleagues that have access to the infrastructure).

You can easily build custom packages leveraging the build infrastructure to test your code.

Before you start, you need push access to the omnibus-gitlab repository.

If you have (someone with) access, you need to:

  1. Make sure that your custom branch is synced to dev.gitlab.org project mirror. For example, if you are working on gitlab-shell, make sure that your custom branch is pushed to the gitlab-shell repository on dev.gitlab.org
  2. Create a branch in the omnibus-gitlab repository
  3. In this branch, open the related version file of the component and specify the name of your branch. For example, if you are working on gitlab-shell open GITLAB_SHELL_VERSION and write my-feature
  4. Commit and push the omnibus-gitlab branch to dev.gitlab.org

This will trigger a build of the custom package, and if the build is successful, you will see a link at the bottom of the build trace with which you will be able to download the custom package.

You can also change the verbosity of the build output using the CI build infrastructure. In CI/CD variables on the omnibus-gitlab project settings (on dev.gitlab.org), add BUILD_LOG_LEVEL variable with debug and run the pipeline.