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Even if I trusted it not to munge other things (doubtful), IIRC omnibus does not support my distro (Gentoo), and setting up another distro I have to (remember to) maintain just to support one application does not appeal medium term versus using a popular docker image which has done that for me already in a pre-tested fashion and should handle maintenance smoother.

Basically I'm at this point: 'what's the easiest self-contained box to run and maintain', with conditions 'I have an IP but it's not dedicated (ports 22/80/443 unavailable)' and 'there may not be existing DNS/SSL for this server but I can set it up' and 'SMTP from this IP is not desired/desirable, but I have an existing offsite ISP allowing relay with credentials'. This doesn't strike me as particularly weird, except that in the latter case Google is not an option (GFW'd from China).

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I don't think your concerns are founded, I just deployed GitLab for personal use on a virtual machine with the omnibus image (gitlab-ce:latest) and it worked flawlessly. And since they released an update today, to upgrade all I had to do was:

    docker pull gitlab/gitlab-ce:latest
    docker stop gitlab
    docker rename gitlab gitlab-old
    docker run --detach --publish 60100:80 --publish 58432:22 --name gitlab --restart always \
         --volume /var/volumes/gitlab/config:/etc/gitlab \
         --volume /var/volumes/gitlab/logs:/var/log/gitlab \
         --volume /var/volumes/gitlab/data:/var/opt/gitlab \
         gitlab/gitlab-ce:latest
    
    # after verifying the new image works, docker rm docker-old; docker rmi [old image].

It took less than an hour to configure it for external SMTP relay, external auth with two factor authentication, etc.

I did just get started with it, but I have to say the omnibus install was fairly easy.

Great, I'm glad it worked for you. It didn't work for me and other people, as per the issues linked. When it doesn't work, there's no clearly defined debug path, and very little response.

Respectfully, it seems like you are using the wrong Docker image, and that's the source of your troubles. Others have commented similarly, and I think that you are too easily dismissing them.

I think you're right Aaron.

The Sameer docker image used to be the only way to run GitLab with Docker but we don't recommend it and it is no longer listed on our installation page https://about.gitlab.com/installation/ to prevent confusion.

Also see my answer in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13243443

I tried the docker image for gitlab-ce just 2 days ago and had to exec bash into it and chmod a workhorse socket file to get it working. Glad they fixed it.

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