gitlab-recipes/init/systemd

GitLab startup services for systemd (Archlinux, Fedora, etc)

GitLab requires a couple of services:

• Web server (apache, nginx, etc.)
• Redis server
• Mail server (postfix or other)
• GitLab Sidekiq service (gitlab-sidekiq.service)
• Unicorn (gitlab-unicorn.service)

Setup GitLab Sidekiq service

Copy files to /etc/systemd/system/:

su -
cd /etc/systemd/system/
wget -O gitlab-sidekiq.service https://raw.github.com/gitlabhq/gitlab-recipes/master/init/systemd/gitlab-sidekiq.service
wget -O gitlab-unicorn.service https://raw.github.com/gitlabhq/gitlab-recipes/master/init/systemd/gitlab-unicorn.service
wget -O gitlab.target https://raw.github.com/gitlabhq/gitlab-recipes/master/init/systemd/gitlab.target

Reload systemd:

sudo systemctl --system daemon-reload

Start the services:

sudo systemctl start gitlab-sidekiq gitlab-unicorn

Enable them to start at boot:

sudo systemctl enable gitlab-sidekiq gitlab-unicorn

Notes

If you installed GitLab in other path than /home/git/gitlab change the service files accordingly.

/etc/systemd/system/ have a higher precedence over /lib/systemd/system.

For older systemd versions you need to append service after the service name. For example:

sudo systemctl start gitlab-sidekiq.service