/doc/README.md

# Documentation

## User documentation

- [API](api/README.md) Automate GitLab via a simple and powerful API.
- [CI/CD](ci/README.md) GitLab Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) getting started, `.gitlab-ci.yml` options, and examples.
- [GitLab as OAuth2 authentication service provider](integration/oauth_provider.md). It allows you to login to other applications from GitLab.
- [Container Registry](container_registry/README.md) Learn how to use GitLab Container Registry.
- [GitLab Basics](gitlab-basics/README.md) Find step by step how to start working on your commandline and on GitLab.
- [Importing to GitLab](workflow/importing/README.md).
- [Importing and exporting projects between instances](user/project/settings/import_export.md).
- [Markdown](markdown/markdown.md) GitLab's advanced formatting system.
- [Migrating from SVN](workflow/importing/migrating_from_svn.md) Convert a SVN repository to Git and GitLab.
- [Permissions](permissions/permissions.md) Learn what each role in a project (external/guest/reporter/developer/master/owner) can do.
- [Profile Settings](profile/README.md)
- [Project Services](project_services/project_services.md) Integrate a project with external services, such as CI and chat.
- [Public access](public_access/public_access.md) Learn how you can allow public and internal access to projects.
- [Analytics](analytics/README.md)
- [SSH](ssh/README.md) Setup your ssh keys and deploy keys for secure access to your projects.
- [Webhooks](web_hooks/web_hooks.md) Let GitLab notify you when new code has been pushed to your project.
- [Workflow](workflow/README.md) Using GitLab functionality and importing projects from GitHub and SVN.
- [GitLab Pages](pages/README.md) Using GitLab Pages.
- [Custom templates for issues and merge requests](customization/issue_and_merge_request_template.md) Pre-fill the description of issues and merge requests to your liking.

## Administrator documentation

- [Audit Events](administration/audit_events.md) Check how user access changed in projects and groups.
- [Access restrictions](administration/access_restrictions.md) Define which Git access protocols can be used to talk to GitLab
- [Authentication/Authorization](administration/auth/README.md) Configure
  external authentication with LDAP, SAML, CAS and additional Omniauth providers.
- [Changing the appearance of the login page](customization/branded_login_page.md) Make the login page branded for your GitLab instance.
- [Custom git hooks](administration/custom_hooks.md) Custom git hooks (on the filesystem) for when webhooks aren't enough.
- [Email](tools/email.md) Email GitLab users from GitLab
- [Push Rules](push_rules/push_rules.md) Advanced push rules for your project.
- [Help message](customization/help_message.md) Set information about administrators of your GitLab instance.
- [Install](install/README.md) Requirements, directory structures and installation from source.
- [Installing your license](license/README.md)
- [Integration](integration/README.md) How to integrate with systems such as JIRA, Redmine, LDAP and Twitter.
- [Restart GitLab](administration/restart_gitlab.md) Learn how to restart GitLab and its components.
- [Issue closing](customization/issue_closing.md) Customize how to close an issue from commit messages.
- [Libravatar](customization/libravatar.md) Use Libravatar for user avatars.
- [Log system](administration/logs.md) Log system.
- [Environment Variables](administration/environment_variables.md) to configure GitLab.
- [Operations](operations/README.md) Keeping GitLab up and running.
- [Raketasks](raketasks/README.md) Backups, maintenance, automatic webhook setup and the importing of projects.
- [Repository checks](administration/repository_checks.md) Periodic Git repository checks.
- [Repository storages](administration/repository_storages.md) Manage the paths used to store repositories.
- [Security](security/README.md) Learn what you can do to further secure your GitLab instance.
- [System hooks](system_hooks/system_hooks.md) Notifications when users, projects and keys are changed.
- [Update](update/README.md) Update guides to upgrade your installation.
- [Welcome message](customization/welcome_message.md) Add a custom welcome message to the sign-in page.
- [Reply by email](incoming_email/README.md) Allow users to comment on issues and merge requests by replying to notification emails.
- [Migrate GitLab CI to CE/EE](migrate_ci_to_ce/README.md) Follow this guide to migrate your existing GitLab CI data to GitLab CE/EE.
- [Downgrade back to CE](downgrade_ee_to_ce/README.md) Follow this guide if you need to downgrade from EE to CE.
- [git-annex configuration](workflow/git_annex.md#configuration)
- [Git LFS configuration](workflow/lfs/lfs_administration.md)
- [Housekeeping](administration/housekeeping.md) Keep your Git repository tidy and fast.
- [GitLab Pages configuration](pages/administration.md) Configure GitLab Pages.
- [Elasticsearch](integration/elasticsearch.md) Enable Elasticsearch.
- [GitLab GEO](gitlab-geo/README.md) Configure GitLab GEO, a secondary read-only GitLab instance.
- [GitLab Performance Monitoring](monitoring/performance/introduction.md) Configure GitLab and InfluxDB for measuring performance metrics.
- [Monitoring uptime](monitoring/health_check.md) Check the server status using the health check endpoint.
- [Debugging Tips](administration/troubleshooting/debug.md) Tips to debug problems when things go wrong
- [Sidekiq Troubleshooting](administration/troubleshooting/sidekiq.md) Debug when Sidekiq appears hung and is not processing jobs.
- [High Availability](administration/high_availability/README.md) Configure multiple servers for scaling or high availability.
- [Container Registry](administration/container_registry.md) Configure Docker Registry with GitLab.

## Contributor documentation

- [Documentation styleguide](development/doc_styleguide.md) Use this styleguide if you are
  contributing to documentation.
- [Development](development/README.md) Explains the architecture and the guidelines for shell commands.
- [Legal](legal/README.md) Contributor license agreements.