GitLab dev environment

We have a dev environment which is based in GitLab CE

Every morning at 7:20AM UTC a new nightly package is built and deployed into it with the latest version from the master branch.

What is this for?

To make sure that GitLab CE keeps working ok, and to have a shorter iteration cycle when developing new CE features.

Getting access to it

You have to be a GitLab employee to have access to it.

How to

Figure out the diff of deployed versions

• ssh into the host
• turn into root
• run ls -latr /var/opt/gitlab/gitlab-rails/upgrade-status
• you will get an output like this:

-rw------- 1 root root    2 Jun 27 07:17 db-migrate-6acdf1f
-rw------- 1 root root    2 Jun 28 07:24 db-migrate-c9a4626
-rw------- 1 root root    2 Jun 29 07:23 db-migrate-ebe21ac

• the final part of each file is the commit hash, get 2 of those like c9a4626..ebe21ac
• run git log --oneline c9a4626..ebe21ac to get the list of commits that got in.