Gitlab autostart on boot

systemctl enable gitlab-runsvdir

If your system is using systemd (RHEL/CentOS 7) instead of init; This is easier :)

 [meebo@server ~]# sudo systemctl enable gitlab-runsvdir
 Created symlink from /etc/systemd/system/basic.target.wants/gitlab-
 runsvdir.service to /usr/lib/systemd/system/gitlab-runsvdir.service.

On CentOS 7, There is a symbolic link,

/etc/systemd/system/default.target.wants/gitlab-runsvdir.service -> /opt/gitlab/embedded/cookbooks/runit/files/default/gitlab-runsvdir.service

And the content of gitlab-runsvdir.service is as like this

[Unit] Description=GitLab Runit supervision process

[Service] ExecStart=/opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/runsvdir-start
Restart=always

I hope there is a similar in Debian 7.

This did not work for me, and was rather annoying to find the answer:

What worked was:

On Centos 6.7: Edit the upstart file /etc/init/gitlab-runsvdir.conf and comment out the line:

start on runlevel [2345]