Use NGINX proxy caching

files/gitlab-cookbooks/gitlab/attributes/default.rb

@@ -456,6 +456,11 @@ default['gitlab']['nginx']['proxy_set_headers'] = {
   "X-Forwarded-For" => "$proxy_add_x_forwarded_for"
 }
 
+# Cache up to 1GB of HTTP responses from GitLab on disk
+default['gitlab']['nginx']['proxy_cache_path'] = 'proxy_cache keys_zone=gitlab:10m max_size=1g levels=1:2'
+# Set to 'off' to disable proxy caching.
+default['gitlab']['nginx']['proxy_cache'] = 'gitlab'
+
 
 ###
 # Logging

files/gitlab-cookbooks/gitlab/templates/default/nginx.conf.erb

@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ http {
 
   include /opt/gitlab/embedded/conf/mime.types;
 
+  proxy_cache_path <%= @proxy_cache_path %>;
+  proxy_cache <%= @proxy_cache %>;
+
   <% if @gitlab_http_config %>
   include <%= @gitlab_http_config %>;
   <% end %>