Over the past day or so I was trying to help a friend set up their Gitlab instance to host Gitlab Pages and publish content via Gitlab CI/CD. It turns out it’s not that straight forward so I thought I’d document setting up a self-hosted Gitlab CE using docker to do just this.

I’ll run both Gitlab and the runners that are used for the CI/CD processed in Docker containers, Docker is well supported by Gitlab and is generally the industry standard now for hosting services I have decided I’ll run Docker locally to test it out.

What I’m doing is a prototype server rather than a production ready one as there is so much to cover to create a robust and secure live service though I’ll note points to consider for a live environment as I come across them. I would however, spend much longer and much more time automating and hardening the solution for production.