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Improve documentation for Geo Architecture
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Secondaries talk to primary to get user data for logins (API), to
clone/pull from repositories (SSH) and to retrieve LFS Objects and Attachments
(HTTPS + JWT).
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Since 10.0 Primary no longer talks to secondaries to notify for changes (API).
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Since GitLab Enterprise Edition Premium 10.0, the primary no longer talks to
secondaries to notify for changes (API).
## Use-cases
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fetch new LFS Objects or fetch changes from a repository that has recently been
updated).
Because the replicated instance is read-only we need this additional instance
Because the replicated instance is read-only
,
we need this additional instance
per secondary location.
### Geo Log Cursor
This daemon reads a log of events replicated by the primary node to the secondary
database and updates the Geo Tracking Database with changes that need
s
to be
database and updates the Geo Tracking Database with changes that need to be
executed.
When something is marked to be updated in the tracking database, asynchronous
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This new architecture allows us to be resilient to connectivity issues between the
nodes. It doesn't matter if it was just a few minutes or days. The secondary
instance will be able to replay all the events and get in sync again.
instance will be able to replay all the events in the correct order and get in
sync again.
## Setup instructions
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