Gitlab guide

This quick GitLab guide will walk you through essential steps like adding your SSH key, creating a new project, pushing code, and making pull requests. It's perfect for developers who want to get started with GitLab quickly and efficiently.

1. Gender SSH key and push on the Gitlab

On the local computer, open terminal (Cmd/Powershell on Window, Bash shell on Linux), run this command:

bash
ssh-keygen

When you run the command above, if you're prompted with any questions, just press Enter to skip through them.

render ssh key on terminal

Once the command finishes, it will generate a .ssh folder in the root directory of the currently signed-in user on your system.

For example on the Window11:

ssh key folder on window11

Open this folder, and open file id_rsa.pub with text editor (Notepad on Window), copy the value.

Now let’s go to GitLab and sign in to your account. Go into the Dashboard page. Click on the Avatar button, then click on Preferences button:

gitlab ssh key config

Click on the SSH Keys button on the Left navigation. After that, click on the Add new key button

gitlab ssh key config

Fill the key value that you have on previous step on the text field, fill the name and set the expire time. Then click Add key button:

gitlab ssh key config

Done! You've successfully set up the SSH key on both your local machine and GitLab. Now you can clone, pull, or push code without having to enter your GitLab credentials each time (unlike using HTTPS).