https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/install/docker.html

the default username is root,

now lets get the default password
docker exec -it {container name} grep 'Password:' /etc/gitlab/initial_root_password
{container name} being the name of your container








lets create a access token




Creating SSH keys to push
ssh-keygen -t rsa -N '' -f ~/.ssh/id_gitlab_selectiont <<< y
vim ~/.ssh/id_gitlab_selectiont.pub


since I named the ssh key a non conventional name, I must put the host in the ~/.shh/config file