If anyone actually has any questions on setting up a VM, I am happy to try to answer as I have lots of experience now. It doesn’t seem it’s possible to set a service or group of related services to auto-start. Gitlab is intended to boot when the system boots, this is not possible to implement with WSL at this time. The results will not be functional.Įven if you could ever get the system UP for a few minutes, you’d find it all goes back down next time you reboot, or breaks every time you apt-get upgrade, and getting it going again won’t be any fun.

Installing the Gitlab Omnibus (from say, Ubuntu private package archives) will NOT work. If something as easy as RSYNC won’t run, there’s no way that the suite of Gitlab Server services is going to run. I can start it and it will lie to me (complete without error) but there is still no rsync service on my box. I notice that it tells me that rsync exists as a service. I notice that I can run services -status-all on my windows system. Gitlab requires a lot of services to be up to work. There are no system level services, there is no systemd or daemon/service-manager infrastructure. Installing and running things with a lot of services, which get orchestrated using tools like chef and puppet. Installing Gitlab on a Windows 10 “bash” prompt is a pretty terrible idea, but kudos to anyone brave (or silly) enough to even try it.

How to install gitlab omnibus