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Installation requirements for Gitpod Self-Hosted

This page details the software and hardware requirements for installing Gitpod Self-Hosted on your own infrastructure.

Supported Kubernetes distributions

Gitpod Self-Hosted runs well on:

Incompatible Kubernetes distributions

These platforms do not currently work with Gitpod Self-Hosted but we would like to support them in the future. Gitpod is an open-source project, maybe you could contribute the required changes to help get them working sooner?

If you are considering purchasing a commerical license for Gitpod Self-Hosted and need one of the above platforms then please contact us to start discussions about making support for them happen sooner.

Minimum Kubernetes requirements

We strongly recommend deploying a dedicated kubernetes cluster just for Gitpod Self-Hosted.

Here are the minimumn requirements:

  • Either Ubuntu 18.04 with ≥ v5.4 kernel or Ubuntu 20.04 with ≥ v5.4 kernel.
  • Calico for the networking overlay and network policy.
  • Kubernetes ≥ 1.18.
  • containerd ≥ 1.2.
  • helm ≥ 3.6.

Minimum compute resources

If you want to run Gitpod Self-Hosted at home we recommend at minimum 2vCPU’s and 8GB of memory. For a better experience we recommend at least 4vCPUs and 16GB RAM for workspace nodes. For cost efficiency, we recommend enabling cluster-autoscaling when running on a commercial cloud provider.

Runtime requirements

DNS

Gitpod requires a domain (or sub-domain on a domain) that is resolvable by your name servers. As Gitpod launches services and workspaces on additional subdomains it also needs two wildcard domains.

For example:

your-domain.com
*.your-domain.com
*.ws.your-domain.com

or

gitpod.your-domain.com
*.gitpod.your-domain.com
*.ws.gitpod.your-domain.com

Ingress

  • Gitpod is designed to serve traffic directly to your local network or internet.
  • Wrapping Gitpod Self-Hosted behind proxies such as nginx or configurations where URLs are rewritten are not supported.

SSL

  • Gitpod requires trusted HTTPS certificates. We recommend using Let’s Encrypt for retrieving certificates as we do for gitpod.io.
  • Installation of Gitpod with SSL certificates signed with your own CA are not currently supported. This scenario is desired and we would welcome help getting this community pull-request merged.
  • The HTTPS certificates for your domain must include your-domain.com, *.your-domain.com and *.ws.your-domain.com. Beware that wildcard certificates are valid for one level only (i.e. *.a.com is not valid for c.b.a.com)

Storage

  • Either Google Cloud Storage or Amazon S3 or MinIO Storage.

Database

  • Gitpod uses a MySQL database to store user data.
  • By default Gitpod ships with a MySQL database built-in and data is stored using a Kubernetes PersistentVolume.
  • For production settings, we recommend operating your own MySQL database (version v5.7 or newer).

Supported web browsers

Gitpod Self-hosted works with the following browsers:

  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Google Chrome
  • Apple Safari (iPad OS and Desktop)
  • Microsoft Edge (Chromium)

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