Commit 7e2300e7 authored by Regis Freyd's avatar Regis Freyd

Added note about steps only required for DR Alpha

parent 29efd392
......@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ first two steps of the [Setup instructions](README.md#setup-instructions):
1. You have set up the database replication.
1. Your secondary node is allowed to communicate via HTTP/HTTPS and SSH with
your primary node (make sure your firewall is not blocking that).
1. You nodes must have a NTP service running to synchronize the clocks.
1. You nodes must have a NTP service running to synchronize the clocks.
You can use different timezones, but the hour relative to UTC can't be more
than 60 seconds off from each node.
......@@ -150,23 +150,27 @@ sensitive data in the database. Any secondary node must have the
sudo -i
```
1. Edit the /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb:
1. (This step is required only if you want to enable the new Disaster Recovery
feature in Alpha shipped in GitLab 9.0) Edit the /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb:
```
geo_postgresql['enable'] = true
```
1. Create `database_geo.yml` with the information of your secondary PostgreSQL
database. Note that GitLab will set up another database instance separate
from the primary, since this is where the secondary will track its internal
state:
1. (This step is required only if you want to enable the new Disaster Recovery
feature in Alpha shipped in GitLab 9.0) Create `database_geo.yml` with the
information of your secondary PostgreSQL database. Note that GitLab will
set up another database instance separate from the primary, since this is
where the secondary will track its internal state:
```
sudo cp /opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-rails/config/database_geo.yml.postgresql /opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-rails/config/database_geo.yml
```
1. Edit the content of `database_geo.yml` in `production:` like the example below:
1. (This step is required only if you want to enable the new Disaster Recovery
feature in Alpha shipped in GitLab 9.0) Edit the content of
`database_geo.yml` in `production:` like the example below:
```yaml
#
# PRODUCTION
......@@ -180,16 +184,18 @@ sensitive data in the database. Any secondary node must have the
# password:
host: /var/opt/gitlab/geo-postgresql
port: 5431
```
1. Reconfigure GitLab:
1. (This step is required only if you want to enable the new Disaster Recovery
feature in Alpha shipped in GitLab 9.0) Reconfigure GitLab:
```
sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure
```
1. Set up the Geo tracking database:
1. (This step is required only if you want to enable the new Disaster Recovery
feature in Alpha shipped in GitLab 9.0) Set up the Geo tracking database:
```
sudo gitlab-rake geo:db:setup
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