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 # GitLab InnerSource Configuration
+
+- [Layering Source Control Management Configurations](#layering-source-control-management-configurations)
+- [Enterprise Setting](#enterprise-setting)
+  - [Repository policies](#repository-policies)
+    - [Base permissions](#base-permissions)
+    - [Repository creation](#repository-creation)
+    - [Repository forking (Private / Internal)](#repository-forking-private--internal)
+- [Organization Setting](#organization-setting)
+  - [Member privileges](#member-privileges)
+    - [Base permissions](#base-permissions-1)
+    - [Repository creation](#repository-creation-1)
+    - [Repository forking](#repository-forking)
+- [GitHub Enterprise Server Setting](#github-enterprise-server-setting)
+  - [GitHub Connect - Server statistics](#github-connect---server-statistics)
+- [Resources](#resources)
+
+## Self-Managed and Free with Customization
+GitLab is a self-managed configured source controlled platform. We can a lot of autonomy with that for being a free tier patform. With that said, there are of course pros and cons to having the ability to self-managed. We will need to configure and customize based on our organizational needs.
+
+Here is an [overview](https://docs.gitlab.com/administration/configure/) of what we can configure within GitLab.
+
+There are various tiers of self-administering hierarchy within GitLab that InnerSource Commons can based on depending on the scope of project,organization, or user specifics.
+
+### GitLab Administration Layers
+
+**By organizations**
+<On GitLab Self-Managed, by default this feature is not available. To make it available, an administrator can enable the feature flag named ui_for_organizations. On GitLab.com and GitLab Dedicated, this feature is not available. This feature is not ready for production use.>
+
+**By projects**
+**By users**
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   - [Resources](./github-configuration.md/#resources)
 
 ### GitLab
+For GitLab, we are using a similar set of de factos - [GitHub InnerSource Strategies](./github-strategy.md#github-innersource-strategies) as that should not changed much in terms of InnerSource security, access, and various setting protocols prescribed under InnerSource Commons principles.