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Document GitLab Development Kit setup on-wiki
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There are pretty good docs for installing the GitLab Development Kit:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-development-kit/-/blob/master/doc/index.md

It shouldn't be necessary to replicate these on-wiki, but a concise summary is probably a good idea. Additionally, I'm experimenting with just running it in a VM, given that it's a pretty massive set of dependencies to install on a multi-purpose client machine, so some notes around that would be good.

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thcipriani triaged this task as Lowest priority.Jul 13 2021, 5:32 PM
brennen edited projects, added GitLab (Misc); removed GitLab.

Just a note that I had the best luck with https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-compose-kit on a Debian system. It's unofficial but provides lighter weight options than GDK for simply running tests. There's also a lot less churn when tearing down single components or even the entire thing (due to cached images and its isolation of GitLab services via Docker Compose).

Yeah, I haven't touched GDK in ages, and I can't say this exactly feels pressing at this point. Might be worth pointing to options including gitlab-compose-kit somewhere, I guess.