Commit ca26884c authored by Achilleas Pipinellis's avatar Achilleas Pipinellis Committed by James Edwards-Jones

Add info about the loadbalancer

parent 54c943a5
...@@ -67,12 +67,18 @@ and/or `443`. For that reason, there is some flexibility in the way which you ...@@ -67,12 +67,18 @@ and/or `443`. For that reason, there is some flexibility in the way which you
can set it up, so you basically have three choices: can set it up, so you basically have three choices:
1. Run the pages daemon in the same server as GitLab, listening on a secondary IP 1. Run the pages daemon in the same server as GitLab, listening on a secondary IP
1. Run the pages daemon in the same server as GitLab, listening on the same IP
but on different ports. In that case, you will have to proxy the traffic with
a loadbalancer.
1. Run the pages daemon in a separate server. In that case, the Pages [`path`] 1. Run the pages daemon in a separate server. In that case, the Pages [`path`]
must also be present in the server that the pages daemon is installed, so must also be present in the server that the pages daemon is installed, so
you will have to share it via network. you will have to share it via network.
1. Run the pages daemon in the same server as GitLab, listening on the same IP
but on different ports. In that case, you will have to proxy the traffic with
a loadbalancer. If you choose that route note that you should use TCP load
balancing for HTTPS. If you use TLS-termination (HTTPS-load balancing) the
pages will not be able to be served with user provided certificates. For
HTTP it's OK to use HTTP or TCP load balancing.
In this document, we will proceed assuming the first option. First let's
install the pages daemon.
[`path`]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/blob/8-5-stable-ee/config/gitlab.yml.example#L155 [`path`]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/blob/8-5-stable-ee/config/gitlab.yml.example#L155
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