Commit 5b16f761 authored by Achilleas Pipinellis's avatar Achilleas Pipinellis

Merge branch 'add-geo-temporary-to-docs' into 'master'

Geo: Document @geo-temporary directory

Closes #5349

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ee!5080
parents 2e8135d0 2c803f84
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See `Gitlab::Geo.enabled?` and `Gitlab::Geo.license_allows?`.
## Communication
The communication channel has changed since first iteration, you can check here
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`/api/v4/geo/transfers/:type/:id` endpoint.
## Repository transfers
Secondary Geo Nodes fetch the repositories when they are updated. If you just
enabled a secondary node and connected it to the primary, the initial backfill
will be initialized.
When we fail to fetch a repository on the secondary several times, we try to do
a clone again into the `@geo-temporary` directory in the root of the storage.
When it's successful, we replace the main repo with the newly cloned one.
### Authentication
To authenticate file transfers, each GeoNode has two fields:
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