Don't want to be that guy, but containerization (gitlab omnibus[0]) might actually help you in this case -- in particular the resource utilization caps that you

Don't want to be that guy, but containerization (gitlab omnibus[0]) might actually help you in this case -- in particular the resource utilization caps that you can get with linux containers. While I can't tell you why Gitlab CE is crashing for you, it is much less likely to take down the entire machine from inside a resource-constrained container, and it will probably force you to make the configuration a bit more reproducable as well (and maybe that will help twiddling). Would love to read about the actual config issues you're having and how you're solving them one by one -- are you writing about it anywhere? [0]: https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/docker/README.html https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/docker/README.html