Valet labs for GitLab

This lab bootstraps a Valet environment using GitHub Codespaces and enables you to run the Valet CI/CD migration tool against an isolated GitLab instance running in Docker.

Prerequisites
Setup Codespace for Valet
Labs for GitLab

Prerequisites

Valet Labs template has been used to generate this repository.

Setup Codespace for Valet

Start the codespace
- Click the Code button down arrow above repository on the repository's landing page.
- Click the Codespaces tab.
- Click Create codespaces on main to create the codespace. If you are in another branch then the main branch, the codespace will button will have the current branch specified.
- Wait a couple minutes, then verify that the codespace starts up. Once it is fully booted up, the terminal should be present.
Verify Valet CLI is installed and working. More information on the GitHub Valet CLI extension
- Run gh valet version in the codespace terminal and verify it returns results like below, actual versions will vary.
```
    gh version 2.14.3 (2022-07-26)
    gh valet        github/gh-valet v0.1.12
    valet-cli       v0.1.0.13392
```
if results do not match try manually installing the valet extension, using the troubleshooting section.
Run the GitLab setup script. This script will setup GitLab and ensure it is ready to use. In general, this script should be run first if you are starting a new codespace or restarting an existing one.
- from the codespace terminal run source gitlab/bootstrap/setup.sh.
Verify you can login to the GitLab Server.
- Click the PORTS tab in the codespace terminal.
- In the row that starts with 80 mouse over the address under the column heading Local Address, and click the globe icon.
- Verify a new browser tab opened to the GitLab login screen.
- Login with the username and password printed in the terminal after step 3, if that is not available you can run the command again in the terminal to get it source gitlab/bootstrap/setup.sh.
- Verify that you can see the auto populated projects in GitLab, under the valet namespace by clicking the Menu icon in GitLab, then Your projects.

Labs for GitLab

Perform the following labs to test-drive Valet

Troubleshooting

GitHub CLI Valet extension is not installed. More information on the GitHub Valet CLI extension
- Verify you are in the codespace terminal
- Run gh extension install github/gh-valet
- Verify the result of the command is: ✓ Installed extension github/gh-valet
- If you get a similar error to the following, click the link to authorize the token
- Restart the codespace after clicking the link
Port 80 is not being forwarded for GitLab server. This should be auto detected by codespaces, but can be manually setup by:
- In the codespace terminal click the PORTS tab
- Click the "Add Port" button
- Enter 80 and hit enter