Introduction to GitLab provisioning modes

Overview of the GitLab authentication's provisioning modes.

With the GitLab authentication and provisioning, two provisioning modes are available:

• Just-in-Time (JIT) provisioning With this mode, user accounts are created in SonarQube Server when GitLab users log in for the first time. You can use group synchronization and user access restriction features.

• Automatic provisioning With this mode, you benefit from:

  • Automatic user and group provisioning and de-provisioning (based on a list of allowed GitLab groups).

  • Automatic synchronization of users’ group memberships.

  • Automatic synchronization of user permissions on projects.

  • Automatic project visibility synchronization.

When authentication is delegated to GitLab in SonarQube Server, the user’s email address is synchronized with GitLab at each login to SonarQube Server.

Related pages

• Feature description:

  • Just-in-Time provisioning

  • Automatic provisioning

• Setting up authentication

• Managing JIT provisioning

• Managing automatic provisioning

• Disabling authentication