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description: 'Read through the different methods to deploy GitLab on Kubernetes.'
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# Installing GitLab on Kubernetes
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The easiest method to deploy GitLab on [Kubernetes](https://kubernetes.io/) is
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to take advantage of GitLab's Helm charts. [Helm] is a package
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management tool for Kubernetes, allowing apps to be easily managed via their
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Charts. A [Chart] is a detailed description of the application including how it
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should be deployed, upgraded, and configured.
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## GitLab Chart
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This chart contains all the required components to get started, and can scale to
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large deployments. It offers a number of benefits:
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- Horizontal scaling of individual components
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- No requirement for shared storage to scale
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- Containers do not need `root` permissions
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- Automatic SSL with Let's Encrypt
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- An unprivileged GitLab Runner
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- and plenty more.
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Learn more about the [GitLab chart](gitlab_chart.md).
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## GitLab Runner Chart
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If you already have a GitLab instance running, inside or outside of Kubernetes,
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and you'd like to leverage the Runner's
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[Kubernetes capabilities](https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/executors/kubernetes.html),
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it can be deployed with the GitLab Runner chart.
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Learn more about [gitlab-runner chart](gitlab_runner_chart.md).
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## Deprecated Charts
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CAUTION: **Deprecated:**
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These charts are **deprecated**. We recommend using the [GitLab Chart](gitlab_chart.md)
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instead.
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### GitLab-Omnibus Chart
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This chart is based on the [GitLab Omnibus Docker images](https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/docker/).
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It deploys and configures nearly all features of GitLab, including:
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- a [GitLab Runner](https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/)
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- [Container Registry](../../user/project/container_registry.html#gitlab-container-registry)
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- [Mattermost](https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/gitlab-mattermost/)
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- [automatic SSL](https://github.com/kubernetes/charts/tree/master/stable/kube-lego)
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- and an [NGINX load balancer](https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress/tree/master/controllers/nginx).
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Learn more about the [gitlab-omnibus chart](gitlab_omnibus.md).
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### Community Contributed Charts
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The community has also contributed GitLab [CE](https://github.com/kubernetes/charts/tree/master/stable/gitlab-ce) and [EE](https://github.com/kubernetes/charts/tree/master/stable/gitlab-ee) charts to the [Helm Stable Repository](https://github.com/kubernetes/charts#repository-structure). These charts are [deprecated](https://github.com/kubernetes/charts/issues/1138) in favor of the [official Chart](gitlab_chart.md).
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[chart]: https://github.com/kubernetes/charts
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[helm]: https://github.com/kubernetes/helm/blob/master/README.md
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