Configure etckeeper with Gitlab

Background

This tutorial shows how to configure etckeeper and GitLab to manage configuration files stored in the /etc directory on your Ubuntu desktop or server.

Commands Used

The commands that are used in terminal are as follows:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install etckeeper git

sudo su ssh-keygen

cd /etc

git remote -v

git remote add origin [gitlab url]

git remote -v

git push origin master