As a sysadmin/engineer/devops/latestbuzzword person, I would like to be able to automate deployment of my SCM/CI solution. The omnibus installation is cool, but... At present there's a rather big stumbling block in that I have to do various manual actions for a fully working solution. - deploy gitlab - configure an admin account - login and navigate to the runner page - note down the token - update my gitlab-runner deployment config - deploy my runner(s) - copy a load of repositories onto the gitlab server and run a rake task (I think), or do it manually one by one (ouch) For PoC's, new jobs at companies that want to migrate etc, that's a pain. For subsequent runs, once a backup has been taken it becomes a bit easier. ideally I would like to be able to use config management (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Etc) to define these settings - admin account details - runner token id and provide them during config It would also be awesome to be able to provide a yaml file which defines how to import repositories, similar to Puppet's r10k or Ansible's galaxy requirements file. e.g. ``` - name: foo url: http://bob.zebra.com project: foobar - name: gitlab-ce url: gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce project: gitlab mirror: true ``` And then run a cli command to add them in. So to summarize... please consider exposing a bootstrap API or something that enables initial configuration to be done, and perhaps provide a requirements style import feature. Thanks!