How To Install Gerrit on an Ec2 Ubuntu

 

What is Gerrit

Gerrit is a web-based code review tool, which is integrated with Git and built on top of the Git version control system (helps developers to work together and maintain the history of their work). It allows merging changes to the Git repository when you are done with the code reviews.

Step1: git

Before beginning with installing Gerrit, we need to be sure that git is installed and set up on our server. If by any chance, it is not already installed on your cloud server, you can get it quickly through apt-get:

sudo apt-get install git

Step2: java

To work, Gerrit requires Java to be installed on the server.

You can check if Java is already installed easily:

java -version

If it’s not, you can install it, once again, through apt-get:

sudo apt-get install default-jdk

Step3: Installing gerrit

Once Git and Java have been downloaded and installed on our server, we can start to set up Gerrit. The program itself is hosted on the Google Code site, but the latest version is 2.7

Download the required war file:

wget https://gerrit-releases.storage.googleapis.com/gerrit-3.5.1.war

Once downloaded, we need to initialize Gerrit. You can do so with the command below.

However, should you be content with the default settings, you can have all of them selected at once with the — batch option. Additionally, while by default, Gerrit is set up within the user’s home directory, you can set up the specific directory where the files should be placed by adding a –d to the line.

java -jar gerrit-3.5.1.war init --batch -d ~/gerrit_example

If this process is done automatically, the canonical URL, where Gerrit can be accessed, will simply be localhost

Step4: Access Your Gerrit Installation

Once Gerrit has been set up, you can start to access it with your desired user.

Gerrit can be accessed through its canonical URL, visible in the settings and easy to find with the command:

git config -f ~/gerrit_example/etc/gerrit.config gerrit.canonicalWebUrl

The visible result should be something along the lines of:

http://(ipv4add):8080/

If you see localhost in your canonical URL, you should be able to access Gerrit through the server’s IP address.

Upon the first login, the page should look like this:

Now you can able in log in to your account.

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