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GitKraken Client Documentation

GitKraken On-Premise Self-Hosted Server

Overview

GitKraken On-Premise Self-Hosted Server is the installed version of GitKraken Client that lives entirely within your network. It is also known as GitKraken Enterprise Self-Hosted, GitKraken Enterprise On-Premise Server, or simply GitKraken Self-Hosted. Its main use is to allow users to login without leaving your internal network.

Benefits of Self-Hosted Server:

  • For use without internet
  • Supports both built-in authentication using email as well as LDAP for user management
  • Control version updates

System Requirements

GitKraken Self-Hosted Server runs on a small spec Linux server (or virtual machine) inside Docker containers.

  • Requires a Linux server running on CentOS, Ubuntu, or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (RHEL7).
  • The server needs to be able to run Docker CE with at least:
    • 2 cores
    • 4GB of RAM
    • 5GB of disk space

Here are Docker’s requirements for CentOS:

  • To install Docker CE, you need the 64-bit version of CentOS 7.

Here are Docker’s requirements for Ubuntu:

  • To install Docker CE, you need the 64-bit version of one of these Ubuntu versions:
    • Zesty 17.04
    • Xenial 16.04 (LTS)
    • Trusty 14.04 (LTS)

Looking to skip the server installation and maintenance? Then check out our Serverless solution.

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