Install Gitlab CE on Ubuntu Server 24.04

In this article we use EC2 instance on AWS with Ubuntu 24.04 Server.

First, update our ubuntu package

sudo apt update

Next, install some libraries that we need.

sudo apt install ca-certificates curl openssh-server postfix tzdata perl

Install Gitlab CE

Move to directory /tmp

cd /tmp

Get the repository for gitlab ce

curl -LO https://packages.gitlab.com/install/repositories/gitlab/gitlab-ce/script.deb.sh

Run the bash script

sudo bash /tmp/script.deb.sh

Lastly, install the gitlab ce

sudo apt install gitlab-ce

Setup firewall

Check the status of UFW

sudo ufw status

Add some rules to allow http, https and OpenSSH

sudo ufw allow http
sudo ufw allow https
sudo ufw allow OpenSSH

Check the ufw status again

sudo ufw status

Editing the Gitlab configuration

Edit the gitlab configuration in

sudo nano /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb

Edit this 2 below below to get domain name and ssl certificate from letsencrypt.

external_url 'https://gitlab.withenri.tech'
letsencrypt['contact_emails'] = ['[e-mail]']

save the configuration with ctrl + x, choose Yes and Enter.

Lastly, run the gitlab-ctl to configure gitlab

sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure

Just wait, the process will take times. If there is no error, we can access our gitlab instance with the domain name.

Root Password Gitlab

The default user for Administrator is root with password in

sudo cat /etc/gitlab/initial_root_password

this file will deleted in 24 our after installation of gitlab.

Administrator UI

Access our instance with domain name (https://gitlab.withenri.tech).
Enter username with root and password from /etc/gitlab/initial_root_password.

Change the root password with click profile picture, choose edit profile and choose Password.

That's it.

Hopefully this article helps you!