Cover -- Copyright -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Kickstarting with GitLab -- What is GitLab? -- GitLab features -- Web interfaces -- Managing permissions -- Documenting your project -- Where GitLab excels -- Cloud-hosted GitLab -- Support for your own GitLab -- Competitors -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Installation -- Hardware -- Operating system - Linux -- Debian/Ubuntu -- The required packages -- Other distributions -- Python -- Ruby -- Download and compile -- Databases -- MySQL -- Testing the connection -- Redis -- Redis on Debian 6.0 Squeeze -- GitLab Shell -- Choosing the right version -- GitLab -- Gem dependencies -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Configuring GitLab -- Configuring the parts -- GitLab Shell -- Permissions and directories -- Databases -- MySQL -- Puma -- GitLab itself -- Secure Shell host protocol -- Default port -- Key storage -- Nginx -- Finding IP and FQDN -- Starting GitLab -- Testing the configuration -- Starting up GitLab -- Automatically start GitLab on system start-up -- Visit your site -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Roles and Permissions -- First steps -- Logging in -- Creating your key -- Pushing for the first time -- The second user -- Adding users manually -- Enabling signup -- Using and understanding different roles -- The Guest - a visitor with limited access -- The Reporter - a communicative observer -- The Developer - the workforce -- The Master - powerful and in control -- The Owner - the creator of a project -- Creating a team -- Adding a team -- Importing an existing team -- Changing teams -- Creating a group -- Managing SSH keys -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Issues and Wikis -- GitLab-flavored Markdown -- About Markdown -- Referring to elements inside GitLab -- Issues, knowing what needs to be done -- Creating issues.

Working with labels or tags -- Assigning users -- Fast documentation with wikis -- Editing online -- Editing locally -- RSS feeds -- Changing a private token -- Understanding the value of metadata -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Workflows -- Single branch -- Feature branch -- Creating a merge request -- Responding to a merge request -- Monitoring branches -- Forking repositories -- Hooks -- Hook examples -- Hooks with the GitLab API -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Updating GitLab -- Preparing for an update -- Stopping GitLab -- Backup -- Database -- Update -- Getting the new version (6.1) -- Dependencies and databases -- Reconfiguring after update -- The init script -- Updating GitLab Shell -- Testing the update -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Help and Community -- Official channels -- The GitLab blog -- Feedback and feature requests -- Other places -- GitHub -- Stackoverflow -- Google Groups -- Troubleshooting -- Read your logs -- Redis -- Repository permissions -- Summary -- Index.