You can install GitLab on most GNU/Linux distributions, on several cloud providers, and in Kubernetes clusters. To get the best experience, you should balance performance, reliability, ease of administration (backups, upgrades, and troubleshooting) with the cost of hosting.

Prerequisites for installation.

Linux, Helm, Docker, Operator, source, or scripts.

AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure.

Isolated installation.

Recommended deployments at scale.

Latest version instructions.

Software for CI/CD jobs.

Config.toml, certificates, autoscaling, proxy setup.