Please review our guide Connecting to popular on-premise source control systems before connecting to self-managed GitLab. All team members will need to follow these steps to connect to their GitLab accounts.
Note: Your self-managed GitLab server must have a public DNS entry that points to a public IP address. This ensures Gearset can communicate with your GitLab instance.
Create an application
You will need to create a new OAuth application for Gearset. To do this, navigate to Preferences in your GitLab instance.
In the Applications section create a new application.
Fill in Gearset as the name, and https://app.gearset.com/authorization/gitlab-self-managed/callback as the redirect URI.
Ensure that Confidential option is ticked, then tick api, read_user, read_repository and write_repository scopes.
Click Save application.
Connect GitLab self-managed in Gearset
Go to Source control and services page in the Gearset app.
To add your new GitLab application to Gearset, click + Connect to GitLab Self Managed.
Fill in the on-premise GitLab URL (i.e. gitlab.kevin.com). To find your GitLab URL:
Open GitLab in your web browser (on your device, computer or laptop).
Copy the address from your browser's address bar. In some browsers, you may need to click the address bar to see the full URL. If you're viewing the dashboard, the GitLab URL is everything that comes before
/dashboard.
If your URL is https://gitlab.com, you are using the cloud version of GitLab and Gearset will work with your GitLab account without having to generate an application in GitLab with the above steps. For steps on integrating with GitLab cloud, please see Integrating with GitLab.
Then fill in the Application ID and Secret as shown in GitLab.
To find these details in GitLab, go to User Settings > Preferences > Applications.
Click Connect. You will be redirected to GitLab where you can log in normally and accept the requested permissions.
After authorizing Gearset, you should now be able to use GitLab as a source or target for comparisons and automated jobs. You can remove Gearset as an authorized app from GitLab at any time.
