GitLab Pages
With GitLab Pages you can host your website at no cost.
Your files live in a GitLab project's repository, from which you can deploy static websites. GitLab Pages supports all static site generators (SSGs).
Getting Started
Follow the steps below to get your website live. They shouldn't take more than 5 minutes to complete:
- 1. Fork an example project
- 2. Change a file to trigger a GitLab CI/CD pipeline
- 3. Visit your project's Settings > Pages to see your website link, and click on it. Bam! Your website is live.
Further steps (optional):
- 4. Remove the fork relationship (You don't need the relationship unless you intent to contribute back to the example project you forked from).
- 5. Make it a user/group website
Watch a video with the steps above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWqh9MtT4Bg
Advanced options:
- Use a custom domain
- Apply SSL/TLS certification to your custom domain
Explore GitLab Pages
With GitLab Pages you can create static websites for your GitLab projects, groups, or user accounts. You can use any static website generator: Jekyll, Middleman, Hexo, Hugo, Pelican, you name it! Connect as many custom domains as you like and bring your own TLS certificate to secure them.
Read the following tutorials to know more about:
- Static websites and GitLab Pages domains
- Forking projects and creating new ones from scratch, URLs and baseurls
- Custom domains and subdomains, DNS records, SSL/TLS certificates
- How to create your own
.gitlab-ci.yml
for your site - Technical aspects, custom 404 pages, limitations
- Hosting on GitLab.com with GitLab Pages (outdated)
Blog posts series about Static Site Generators (SSGs):
- SSGs part 1: Static vs dynamic websites
- SSGs part 2: Modern static site generators
- SSGs part 3: Build any SSG site with GitLab Pages
Blog posts for securing GitLab Pages custom domains with SSL/TLS certificates:
- CloudFlare
- Let's Encrypt (outdated)
- StartSSL (deprecated)
Advanced use
- Posting to your GitLab Pages blog from iOS
- GitLab CI: Run jobs sequentially, in parallel, or build a custom pipeline
- GitLab CI: Deployment & environments
- Building a new GitLab docs site with Nanoc, GitLab CI, and GitLab Pages
- Publish code coverage reports with GitLab Pages
Admin GitLab Pages for CE and EE
Enable and configure GitLab Pages on your own instance (GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Editions) with the admin guide.
Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD8c7WNcc6s
More information about GitLab Pages
- For an overview, visit the feature webpage
- Announcement (2016-12-24): "We're bringing GitLab Pages to CE"
- Announcement (2017-03-06): "We are changing the IP of GitLab Pages on GitLab.com"