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| author | Ben Bodenmiller <bbodenmiller@hotmail.com> | 2019-08-25 11:00:08 +0000 |
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| committer | Ben Bodenmiller <bbodenmiller@hotmail.com> | 2019-08-25 11:00:08 +0000 |
| commit | f2371a89f151da21e2d139f7cb159d611ba6fd0b (patch) | |
| tree | 5692b4b958026565e4438063a522942d9da428eb /doc/development/architecture.md | |
| parent | d90b361b7c8c1aa7faa9ef1ead40e096d4ae7e42 (diff) | |
| parent | 8112fb37544557b3f94c0a558175d5da99ef9829 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/doc/development/architecture.md b/doc/development/architecture.md index 87405bc2fec..5cb2ddf6e52 100644 --- a/doc/development/architecture.md +++ b/doc/development/architecture.md @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ A typical install of GitLab will be on GNU/Linux. It uses Nginx or Apache as a w We also support deploying GitLab on Kubernetes using our [gitlab Helm chart](https://docs.gitlab.com/charts/). -The GitLab web app uses MySQL or PostgreSQL for persistent database information (e.g. users, permissions, issues, other meta data). GitLab stores the bare git repositories it serves in `/home/git/repositories` by default. It also keeps default branch and hook information with the bare repository. +The GitLab web app uses PostgreSQL for persistent database information (e.g. users, permissions, issues, other meta data). GitLab stores the bare git repositories it serves in `/home/git/repositories` by default. It also keeps default branch and hook information with the bare repository. When serving repositories over HTTP/HTTPS GitLab utilizes the GitLab API to resolve authorization and access as well as serving git objects. @@ -511,7 +511,15 @@ To summarize here's the [directory structure of the `git` user home directory](. ps aux | grep '^git' ``` -GitLab has several components to operate. As a system user (i.e. any user that is not the `git` user) it requires a persistent database (MySQL/PostreSQL) and redis database. It also uses Apache httpd or Nginx to proxypass Unicorn. As the `git` user it starts Sidekiq and Unicorn (a simple ruby HTTP server running on port `8080` by default). Under the GitLab user there are normally 4 processes: `unicorn_rails master` (1 process), `unicorn_rails worker` (2 processes), `sidekiq` (1 process). +GitLab has several components to operate. It requires a persistent database +(PostgreSQL) and redis database, and uses Apache httpd or Nginx to proxypass +Unicorn. All these components should run as different system users to GitLab +(e.g., `postgres`, `redis` and `www-data`, instead of `git`). + +As the `git` user it starts Sidekiq and Unicorn (a simple ruby HTTP server +running on port `8080` by default). Under the GitLab user there are normally 4 +processes: `unicorn_rails master` (1 process), `unicorn_rails worker` +(2 processes), `sidekiq` (1 process). ### Repository access @@ -554,12 +562,9 @@ $ /etc/init.d/nginx Usage: nginx {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload|status|configtest} ``` -Persistent database (one of the following) +Persistent database ``` -/etc/init.d/mysqld -Usage: /etc/init.d/mysqld {start|stop|status|restart|condrestart|try-restart|reload|force-reload} - $ /etc/init.d/postgresql Usage: /etc/init.d/postgresql {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload|status} [version ..] ``` @@ -597,11 +602,6 @@ PostgreSQL - `/var/log/postgresql/*` -MySQL - -- `/var/log/mysql/*` -- `/var/log/mysql.*` - ### GitLab specific config files GitLab has configuration files located in `/home/git/gitlab/config/*`. Commonly referenced config files include: |