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diff --git a/doc/administration/integration/terminal.md b/doc/administration/integration/terminal.md index 05d0a97e554..a1d1bb03b50 100644 --- a/doc/administration/integration/terminal.md +++ b/doc/administration/integration/terminal.md @@ -1,17 +1,17 @@ -# Online terminals +# Web terminals > [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/7690) -in GitLab 8.15. Only project masters and owners can access online terminals. +in GitLab 8.15. Only project masters and owners can access web terminals. With the introduction of the [Kubernetes](../../project_services/kubernetes.md) project service, GitLab gained the ability to store and use credentials for a Kubernetes cluster. One of the things it uses these credentials for is providing -access to [online terminals](../../ci/environments.html#online-terminals) +access to [web terminals](../../ci/environments.html#web-terminals) for environments. ## How it works -A detailed overview of the architecture of online terminals and how they work +A detailed overview of the architecture of web terminals and how they work can be found in [this document](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-workhorse/blob/master/doc/terminal.md). In brief: @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ In brief: ## Enabling and disabling terminal support -As online terminals use WebSockets, every HTTP/HTTPS reverse proxy in front of +As web terminals use WebSockets, every HTTP/HTTPS reverse proxy in front of Workhorse needs to be configured to pass the `Connection` and `Upgrade` headers through to the next one in the chain. If you installed Gitlab using Omnibus, or from source, starting with GitLab 8.15, this should be done by the default @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ Omnibus installation before upgrading to 8.15, you may need to make some changes to your configuration. See the [8.14 to 8.15 upgrade](../../update/8.14-to-8.15.md#nginx-configuration) document for more details. -If you'd like to disable online terminal support in GitLab, just stop passing +If you'd like to disable web terminal support in GitLab, just stop passing the `Connection` and `Upgrade` hop-by-hop headers in the *first* HTTP reverse proxy in the chain. For most users, this will be the NGINX server bundled with Omnibus Gitlab, in which case, you need to: @@ -69,5 +69,5 @@ For your own load balancer, just reverse the configuration changes recommended by the above guides. When these headers are not passed through, Workhorse will return a -`400 Bad Request` response to users attempting to use an online terminal. In -turn, they will receive a `Connection failed` message. +`400 Bad Request` response to users attempting to use a web terminal. In turn, +they will receive a `Connection failed` message. |