Running GitLab CE in a Vagrant Centos7 VM

Used on Mac OS X Sierra 10.12.3

Software Platforms version

1. Vagrant version 1.9.1
2. Virtual Box version 5.1.12

Install Virtual Box Guest Additions plugin

The official Centos7 Vagrant Box does not come with virtualbox Guest Addtions installed.

There is a Vagrant Plugin however which will automatically do this for you. Run command:

vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest

Bring up Vagrant VM with GitLab installation and provisioning

Note that the Vagrant up process will ask you to choose a Network interface to use to obtain an external IP

vagrant up 

This installs and configures Gitlab as recommeded by GitLab instructions shown on this page: https://about.gitlab.com/downloads/#centos7

Once installed an configured, you need to find the external IP for you Vagrant VM and go to the GitLab Login Page in a browser.

http://your vm ip/

Note that by default only an HTTP interface is enabled.

At the Login page you will be asked for the root account password you would like to set.