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GitLab Development Kit is a folder and set of utilities that contain most of the GitLab production systems. This skill is useful for testing with local GitLab deployment and when researching how feature works in the GitLab monolith, AIGW, workhorse and other services

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name	gdk
description	GitLab Development Kit is a folder and set of utilities that contain most of the GitLab production systems. This skill is useful for testing with local GitLab deployment and when researching how feature works in the GitLab monolith, AIGW, workhorse and other services

GDK lives in /Users/tomas/workspace/gl/gdk

Subfolders

gitlab contains the main GitLab monolith Ruby on Rails codebase, database, API, frontend, everything
gitlab-ai-gateway AI Gateway (AIGW) and Duo Workflow Service (DWS)

Starting GDK

Start GDK with cd /Users/tomas/workspace/gl/gdk && gdk start

Updating GDK

Update GDK with cd /Users/tomas/workspace/gl/gdk && gdk update

This will checkout the default branches so make sure that all work in progress is comitted.

Thanks to complications like migrations, you want to generally rebase your WIP branches on latest main/master after upgrading GDK

Auth

cat ~/.secrets/gdk
export GDK_TOKEN=glpat-xxx
export GDK_RUNNER_TOKEN="glrt-yyy"

this file is sourced and the env variables available to you

Duo test project

Seeded Duo test project at /Users/tomas/workspace/test/test (remote http://gdk.test:3000/gitlab-duo/test.git). Use as cwd when running the Duo CLI (avoids some edge cases).

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name	gdk
description	GitLab Development Kit is a folder and set of utilities that contain most of the GitLab production systems. This skill is useful for testing with local GitLab deployment and when researching how feature works in the GitLab monolith, AIGW, workhorse and other services

GDK lives in /Users/tomas/workspace/gl/gdk

Subfolders

gitlab contains the main GitLab monolith Ruby on Rails codebase, database, API, frontend, everything
gitlab-ai-gateway AI Gateway (AIGW) and Duo Workflow Service (DWS)

Starting GDK

Start GDK with cd /Users/tomas/workspace/gl/gdk && gdk start

Updating GDK

Update GDK with cd /Users/tomas/workspace/gl/gdk && gdk update

This will checkout the default branches so make sure that all work in progress is comitted.

Thanks to complications like migrations, you want to generally rebase your WIP branches on latest main/master after upgrading GDK

Auth

cat ~/.secrets/gdk
export GDK_TOKEN=glpat-xxx
export GDK_RUNNER_TOKEN="glrt-yyy"

this file is sourced and the env variables available to you

Duo test project

Seeded Duo test project at /Users/tomas/workspace/test/test (remote http://gdk.test:3000/gitlab-duo/test.git). Use as cwd when running the Duo CLI (avoids some edge cases).