How GitLab Pages uses the GitLab API to serve content

GitLab Pages enables users to create and host project websites from their GitLab accounts, utilizing either GitLab.com or self-managed instances. The service has evolved from relying on an NFS shared mount and a config.json file for loading website content and configurations to an API-based configuration system introduced in GitLab 12.10. This shift significantly reduced the startup time for the Pages daemon from approximately 25 minutes to about one minute, enhancing efficiency by caching configurations in memory and serving content through an internal API endpoint. Despite this improvement, GitLab Pages still serves content from the NFS shared mount, but plans are underway to transition to object storage, which will support future Kubernetes deployment. The API-based configuration has been rolled out on GitLab.com and is being prepared for self-managed instances, with ongoing efforts to further streamline the process and remove NFS dependencies entirely. Users can enable the API-based configuration by following a guide provided by GitLab, and ongoing updates continue to evolve the platform's capabilities and infrastructure to improve performance and scalability.

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