Commit 55850b75 authored by Lucas Charles's avatar Lucas Charles

Add airgapped quickstart guide

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Computers in an air-gapped network are isolated from the public internet as a security measure.
This page lists all the information available for running GitLab in an air-gapped environment.
## Quick start
If you plan to deploy a GitLab instance on a physically-isolated and offline network, see the
[quick start guide](quick_start_guide.md) for configuration steps.
## Features
Follow these best practices to use GitLab's features in an offline environment:
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# Getting started with an air-gapped GitLab Installation
This is a step-by-step guide that helps you install, configure, and use a self-managed GitLab
instance entirely offline.
## Installation
NOTE: **Note:**
This guide assumes the server is Ubuntu 18.04. Instructions for other servers may vary.
NOTE: **Note:**
This guide assumes the server host resolves as `my-host`, which you should replace with your
server's name.
Follow the installation instructions [as outlined in the omnibus install
guide](https://about.gitlab.com/install/#ubuntu), but make sure to specify an `http`
URL for the `EXTERNAL_URL` installation step. Once installed, we will manually
configure the SSL ourselves.
It is strongly recommended to setup a domain for IP resolution rather than bind
to the server's IP address. This better ensures a stable target for our certs' CN
and will make long-term resolution simpler.
```shell
sudo EXTERNAL_URL="http://my-host.internal" install gitlab-ee
```
## Enabling SSL
Follow these steps to enable SSL for your fresh instance. Note that these steps reflect those for
[manually configuring SSL in Omnibus's NGINX configuration](https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/settings/nginx.html#manually-configuring-https):
1. Make the following changes to `/etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb`:
```ruby
# Update external_url from "http" to "https"
external_url "https://example.gitlab.com"
# Set Let's Encrypt to false
letsencrypt['enable'] = false
```
1. Create the following directories with the appropriate permissions for generating self-signed
certificates:
```shell
sudo mkdir -p /etc/gitlab/ssl
sudo chmod 755 /etc/gitlab/ssl
sudo openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 365 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout /etc/gitlab/ssl/my-host.internal.key -out /etc/gitlab/ssl/my-host.internal.crt
```
1. Reconfigure your instance to apply the changes:
```shell
sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure
```
## Enabling the GitLab Container Registry
Follow these steps to enable the container registry. Note that these steps reflect those for
[configuring the container registry under an existing domain](../../administration/packages/container_registry.md#configure-container-registry-under-an-existing-gitlab-domain):
1. Make the following changes to `/etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb`:
```ruby
# Change external_registry_url to match external_url, but append the port 4567
external_url "https://example.gitlab.com"
registry_external_url "https://example.gitlab.com:4567"
```
1. Reconfigure your instance to apply the changes:
```shell
sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure
```
## Allow the docker daemon to trust the registry and GitLab Runner
Provide your Docker daemon with your certs by
[following the steps for using trusted certificates with your registry](../../administration/packages/container_registry.md#using-self-signed-certificates-with-container-registry):
```shell
sudo mkdir -p /etc/docker/certs.d/my-host.internal:5000
sudo cp /etc/gitlab/ssl/my-host.internal.crt /etc/docker/certs.d/my-host.internal:5000/ca.crt
```
Provide your GitLab Runner (to be installed next) with your certs by
[following the steps for using trusted certificates with your Runner](https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/install/docker.html#installing-trusted-ssl-server-certificates):
```shell
sudo mkdir -p /etc/gitlab-runner/certs
sudo cp /etc/gitlab/ssl/my-host.internal.crt /etc/gitlab-runner/certs/ca.crt
```
## Enabling GitLab Runner
[Following a similar process to the steps for installing our GitLab Runner as a
Docker service](https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/install/docker.html#docker-image-installation), we must first register our Runner:
```shell
$ sudo docker run --rm -it -v /etc/gitlab-runner:/etc/gitlab-runner gitlab/gitlab-runner register
Updating CA certificates...
Runtime platform arch=amd64 os=linux pid=7 revision=1b659122 version=12.8.0
Running in system-mode.
Please enter the gitlab-ci coordinator URL (e.g. https://gitlab.com/):
https://my-host.internal
Please enter the gitlab-ci token for this runner:
XXXXXXXXXXX
Please enter the gitlab-ci description for this runner:
[eb18856e13c0]:
Please enter the gitlab-ci tags for this runner (comma separated):
Registering runner... succeeded runner=FSMwkvLZ
Please enter the executor: custom, docker, virtualbox, kubernetes, docker+machine, docker-ssh+machine, docker-ssh, parallels, shell, ssh:
docker
Please enter the default Docker image (e.g. ruby:2.6):
ruby:2.6
Runner registered successfully. Feel free to start it, but if it's running already the config should be automatically reloaded!
```
Now we must add some additional configuration to our runner:
Make the following changes to `/etc/gitlab-runner/config.toml`:
- Add docker socket to volumes `volumes = ["/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock", "/cache"]`
- Add `pull_policy = "if-not-present"` to the executor configuration
Now we can start our Runner:
```shell
sudo docker run -d --restart always --name gitlab-runner -v /etc/gitlab-runner:/etc/gitlab-runner -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock gitlab/gitlab-runner:latest
90646b6587127906a4ee3f2e51454c6e1f10f26fc7a0b03d9928d8d0d5897b64
```
### Authenticating the registry against the host OS
As noted in [Docker's registry authentication documentation](https://docs.docker.com/registry/insecure/#docker-still-complains-about-the-certificate-when-using-authentication),
certain versions of Docker require trusting the certificate chain at the OS level.
In the case of Ubuntu, this involves using `update-ca-certificates`:
```shell
sudo cp /etc/docker/certs.d/my-host.internal\:5000/ca.crt /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/my-host.internal.crt
sudo update-ca-certificates
```
If all goes well, this is what you should see:
```
1 added, 0 removed; done.
Running hooks in /etc/ca-certificates/update.d...
done.
```
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