Introduction

Security of a system is often overlooked or not considered important enough. Some might think not about the possible consequences, which might result in a hacked or compromised server. Maybe sensitive data gets stolen or encrypted with major consequences.

GitLab is an awesome product. I’m using GitLab Community Edition (FOSS) at home on a daily basis.

However, I needed a specific feature in GitLab called Pull from a remote repository which is officially a premium feature only. Too bad this feature is not free, but I have a solution.
This sync feature allows you to keep for example your forked repository in sync with a remote upstream repository.

Welcome back, this will be the 3^rd part of new server series. In the previous parts I assembled the server and prepared the machine with Ubuntu Server. I configured the basics things like; networking, RAID setup, E-Mail and more. In case you missed that: read Part I and Part II.

Today, we will finish the job with installing and configuring all the services we love so much. Again, I included a Table of Contents for convenience reasons, since it quite a long article. But hopefully the table will help you to navigate around.