Simple gitlab-ce on a single EC2 instance

Requirements

• EC2 Key pair (ssh key)
• AWS HostedZone and 1 TLD

1. Clone repo

git clone https://github.com/ventx/terraform-gitlabce-ec2.git
cd terraform-gitlabce-ec2

2. Edit variables.tf

• this is your hostedzone tld like example.com

variable "domain" {
  description = "gitlab server TLD"
}

• this is the subdomain for the giltab-ce instance like gitlab.example.com

variable "subdomain" {
  description = "Subdomain"
}

• this is your hostedzone tld like example.com

Rest of the variables are for your aws account informations like vpc, subnet and ssh key

3. Deploy the instance

terraform init
terraform plan
terraform apply

Connect to the instance

• ssh ubuntu@aws_instance.gitlabce.public_ip -i ssh_key.pem.txt

open log file from the installation

• tail -f /var/log/cloud-init-output.log

wait for the setup to be completed. Visit your gitlab-ce instance unter https://gitlab.example.com

• ${var.subdomain}.${data.aws_route53_zone.hostedzone.name}] create your admin password on the first visit

Version history

• 1.0

Terraform Readme

Providers

Name	Version
aws	n/a
template	n/a

Inputs

Name	Description	Type	Default	Required
ami	AMI to be used, default is Ubuntu 18.67 Bionic	string	"ami-090f10efc254eaf55"	yes
domain	gitlab server TLD	string	""	yes
instancename	EC2 instance name	string	"gitlabce"	yes
instancetype	EC2 instance type	string	"t3.medium"	yes
keyname	SSH key name	string	""	yes
owner	Owner Tag for AWS console	string	""	yes
profile	AWS Profile	string	"default"	yes
region	AWS Region	string	"eu-central-1"	yes
subdomain	Subdomain	string	"gitlab"	yes
subnetid	Subnet for the Gitlab Instance	string	""	yes
vpc	AWS VPC	string	""	yes

Outputs

Name	Description
instancename	Instance Name
instancetype	Instance Type
keyname	Instance SSH Keyname
privateip	Instance Private IPv4
publicip	Instance Pupblic IPv4
userdata	Userdata for gitlabce Setup