diff --git a/argocd-apps/vps-standby/gitlab.yaml b/argocd-apps/vps-standby/gitlab.yaml
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index 0000000..dc30723
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+++ b/argocd-apps/vps-standby/gitlab.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+apiVersion: argoproj.io/v1alpha1
+kind: Application
+metadata:
+  name: vps-gitlab
+  namespace: argocd
+  annotations:
+    argocd.argoproj.io/sync-wave: "3"  # after vps-cnpg (wave 1) and vps-eso (wave 1)
+  finalizers:
+    - resources-finalizer.argocd.argoproj.io
+spec:
+  project: vps-standby
+  sources:
+    - repoURL: https://charts.gitlab.io/
+      chart: gitlab
+      targetRevision: 7.7.0
+      helm:
+        valueFiles:
+          - $values/infrastructure/vps-standby/gitlab/values.yaml
+    - repoURL: https://gitlab.kube.huskypup.net/Scooby/Homelabv4.git
+      targetRevision: main
+      ref: values
+    - repoURL: https://gitlab.kube.huskypup.net/Scooby/Homelabv4.git
+      targetRevision: main
+      path: infrastructure/vps-standby/gitlab/manifests
+  destination:
+    name: vps-standby
+    namespace: gitlab
+  syncPolicy:
+    automated:
+      prune: true
+      selfHeal: true
+    syncOptions:
+      - CreateNamespace=true
diff --git a/infrastructure/authentik/gitlab-blueprint.yaml b/infrastructure/authentik/gitlab-blueprint.yaml
index 50798f5..7e142b8 100644
--- a/infrastructure/authentik/gitlab-blueprint.yaml
+++ b/infrastructure/authentik/gitlab-blueprint.yaml
@@ -49,6 +49,10 @@ spec:
                 redirect_uris:
                   - url: "https://gitlab.kube.huskypup.net/users/auth/openid_connect/callback"
                     matching_mode: strict
+                  # Real GitLab on the VPS (infrastructure/vps-standby/gitlab/) -
+                  # shares this same provider/client_id, added 2026-08-21.
+                  - url: "https://gitlab.vps.huskypup.net/users/auth/openid_connect/callback"
+                    matching_mode: strict
                 enabled: true
                 property_mappings:
                   - !Find [authentik_providers_oauth2.scopemapping, [scope_name, openid]]
diff --git a/infrastructure/vps-standby/gitlab/manifests/cnpg-cluster.yaml b/infrastructure/vps-standby/gitlab/manifests/cnpg-cluster.yaml
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index 0000000..ec5f3d4
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+++ b/infrastructure/vps-standby/gitlab/manifests/cnpg-cluster.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+---
+# Real GitLab on the VPS - simplified single-node equivalent of
+# apps/gitlab/manifests/cnpg-cluster.yaml (home's is 3-instance HA with
+# Rook-Ceph; this is 1 instance on local-path, matching the "keep it
+# lighter" pattern already used for the rest of vps-standby).
+apiVersion: postgresql.cnpg.io/v1
+kind: Cluster
+metadata:
+  name: pg-gitlab
+  namespace: gitlab
+spec:
+  imageName: ghcr.io/cloudnative-pg/postgresql:16
+  instances: 1
+
+  resources:
+    requests:
+      memory: "512Mi"
+      cpu: "50m"
+    limits:
+      memory: "2Gi"
+      cpu: "500m"
+
+  storage:
+    size: 20Gi
+    storageClass: local-path
+
+  primaryUpdateStrategy: unsupervised
+
+  bootstrap:
+    initdb:
+      database: gitlabhq_production
+      owner: app
+      postInitSQL:
+        - CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS pg_trgm;
+        - CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS btree_gist;
+
+  # Same tuning as home's, GitLab needs these regardless of scale
+  postgresql:
+    parameters:
+      max_connections: "200"
+      shared_buffers: "512MB"
+      effective_cache_size: "1536MB"
+      maintenance_work_mem: "128MB"
+      checkpoint_completion_target: "0.9"
+      wal_buffers: "16MB"
+      default_statistics_target: "100"
+      random_page_cost: "1.1"
+      effective_io_concurrency: "200"
+      work_mem: "8MB"
+      min_wal_size: "1GB"
+      max_wal_size: "4GB"
+
+  monitoring:
+    enablePodMonitor: false  # no Prometheus on the VPS cluster
diff --git a/infrastructure/vps-standby/gitlab/manifests/ingress.yaml b/infrastructure/vps-standby/gitlab/manifests/ingress.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dd7a793
--- /dev/null
+++ b/infrastructure/vps-standby/gitlab/manifests/ingress.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+---
+# Real GitLab on the VPS. https-redirect Middleware from the start this
+# time - see infrastructure/vps-standby/vault/manifests/ingress.yaml for
+# why it's needed (found live 2026-08-21: Traefik serves plain HTTP
+# alongside HTTPS unless explicitly redirected, which silently breaks
+# OIDC login since the callback URL computed client-side won't match
+# what's registered in Authentik).
+apiVersion: traefik.io/v1alpha1
+kind: Middleware
+metadata:
+  name: https-redirect
+  namespace: gitlab
+spec:
+  redirectScheme:
+    scheme: https
+    permanent: true
+---
+apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
+kind: Ingress
+metadata:
+  name: vps-gitlab
+  namespace: gitlab
+  annotations:
+    cert-manager.io/cluster-issuer: letsencrypt-production
+    traefik.ingress.kubernetes.io/router.middlewares: gitlab-https-redirect@kubernetescrd
+spec:
+  ingressClassName: traefik
+  tls:
+    - hosts:
+        - gitlab.vps.huskypup.net
+      secretName: vps-gitlab-tls
+  rules:
+    - host: gitlab.vps.huskypup.net
+      http:
+        paths:
+          - path: /
+            pathType: Prefix
+            backend:
+              service:
+                name: gitlab-webservice-default
+                port:
+                  number: 8181
diff --git a/infrastructure/vps-standby/gitlab/manifests/oidc-secret.yaml b/infrastructure/vps-standby/gitlab/manifests/oidc-secret.yaml
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index 0000000..bd6da0d
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+++ b/infrastructure/vps-standby/gitlab/manifests/oidc-secret.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+# Shares the same Authentik OAuth2 provider/client_id as home's GitLab
+# (infrastructure/authentik/gitlab-blueprint.yaml has both redirect_uris
+# registered). Same Vault path (secret/gitlab-oauth) home's copy reads
+# from - vps-eso-reader policy widened to allow this one extra path
+# (infrastructure/vps-eso/manifests/clustersecretstore.yaml's policy,
+# applied live via vault CLI, not git-tracked - matches how every other
+# Vault policy/auth-method in this repo is set up).
+apiVersion: external-secrets.io/v1
+kind: ExternalSecret
+metadata:
+  name: gitlab-oidc
+  namespace: gitlab
+spec:
+  refreshInterval: 1h
+  secretStoreRef:
+    kind: ClusterSecretStore
+    name: vault-backend
+  target:
+    name: gitlab-oidc-secret
+    creationPolicy: Owner
+    template:
+      type: Opaque
+      data:
+        GITLAB_OIDC_CLIENT_ID: "{{ .clientId }}"
+        GITLAB_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET: "{{ .clientSecret }}"
+  data:
+    - secretKey: clientId
+      remoteRef:
+        key: gitlab-oauth
+        property: client-id
+    - secretKey: clientSecret
+      remoteRef:
+        key: gitlab-oauth
+        property: client-secret
diff --git a/infrastructure/vps-standby/gitlab/manifests/redis-init-fix.yaml b/infrastructure/vps-standby/gitlab/manifests/redis-init-fix.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..168f6cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/infrastructure/vps-standby/gitlab/manifests/redis-init-fix.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+# Same fix as apps/gitlab/manifests/redis-init-fix.yaml (home) - GitLab
+# chart 7.7.0's initializer ordering bug: 7_prometheus_metrics.rb loads
+# before 7_redis.rb (alphabetical 'p' < 'r'), triggering Redis cache
+# access before Gitlab::Redis::ALL_CLASSES is defined. This ConfigMap
+# provides an early initializer that loads the Redis module first.
+#
+# Mounting this into webservice/sidekiq deployments still has to be a
+# manual kubectl patch after first deploy - chart 7.7.0 doesn't support
+# extraVolumes on those workloads, same limitation home hit, and home's
+# own patch was never git-tracked either (applied live). See this
+# directory's own deploy notes for the exact patch commands.
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: ConfigMap
+metadata:
+  name: redis-init-fix
+  namespace: gitlab
+data:
+  0_redis_early.rb: |
+    require "gitlab/redis"
diff --git a/infrastructure/vps-standby/gitlab/manifests/redis-secret.yaml b/infrastructure/vps-standby/gitlab/manifests/redis-secret.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..715cbfb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/infrastructure/vps-standby/gitlab/manifests/redis-secret.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+apiVersion: external-secrets.io/v1
+kind: ExternalSecret
+metadata:
+  name: redis-gitlab
+  namespace: gitlab
+spec:
+  refreshInterval: 1h
+  secretStoreRef:
+    kind: ClusterSecretStore
+    name: vault-backend
+  target:
+    name: redis-gitlab-secret
+    creationPolicy: Owner
+    template:
+      type: Opaque
+      data:
+        password: "{{ .password }}"
+  data:
+    - secretKey: password
+      remoteRef:
+        key: vps/gitlab-redis
+        property: password
diff --git a/infrastructure/vps-standby/gitlab/manifests/redis.yaml b/infrastructure/vps-standby/gitlab/manifests/redis.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5530404
--- /dev/null
+++ b/infrastructure/vps-standby/gitlab/manifests/redis.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+# Real GitLab on the VPS - standalone Redis, same pattern as home's
+# apps/gitlab/manifests/redis-cluster.yaml (despite that file's name,
+# it's already just a single standalone instance - "Sentinel" in the
+# filename is legacy, not what's actually running). local-path storage
+# instead of rook-ceph-block.
+---
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Service
+metadata:
+  name: redis-gitlab
+  namespace: gitlab
+spec:
+  ports:
+    - port: 6379
+      targetPort: 6379
+      name: redis
+  selector:
+    app: redis-gitlab
+  type: ClusterIP
+---
+apiVersion: apps/v1
+kind: StatefulSet
+metadata:
+  name: redis-gitlab
+  namespace: gitlab
+spec:
+  serviceName: redis-gitlab
+  replicas: 1
+  selector:
+    matchLabels:
+      app: redis-gitlab
+  template:
+    metadata:
+      labels:
+        app: redis-gitlab
+    spec:
+      securityContext:
+        fsGroup: 1000
+      containers:
+        - name: redis
+          image: redis:7.0-alpine
+          securityContext:
+            runAsUser: 999
+            runAsGroup: 1000
+            runAsNonRoot: true
+            allowPrivilegeEscalation: false
+            capabilities:
+              drop: ["ALL"]
+          ports:
+            - containerPort: 6379
+              name: redis
+          command:
+            - sh
+            - -c
+            - redis-server --appendonly yes --requirepass "$REDIS_PASSWORD"
+          env:
+            - name: REDIS_PASSWORD
+              valueFrom:
+                secretKeyRef:
+                  name: redis-gitlab-secret
+                  key: password
+          resources:
+            requests:
+              cpu: 25m
+              memory: 128Mi
+            limits:
+              memory: 512Mi
+          volumeMounts:
+            - name: data
+              mountPath: /data
+            - name: tmp
+              mountPath: /tmp
+      volumes:
+        - name: tmp
+          emptyDir: {}
+  volumeClaimTemplates:
+    - metadata:
+        name: data
+      spec:
+        accessModes: ["ReadWriteOnce"]
+        storageClassName: local-path
+        resources:
+          requests:
+            storage: 5Gi
diff --git a/infrastructure/vps-standby/gitlab/values.yaml b/infrastructure/vps-standby/gitlab/values.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..58cd94d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/infrastructure/vps-standby/gitlab/values.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,195 @@
+# Real GitLab on the VPS - simplified single-node equivalent of
+# apps/gitlab/values.yaml (home). Same chart, same version, same
+# Authentik OIDC provider/client (shared, see infrastructure/authentik/
+# gitlab-blueprint.yaml). Deliberately lighter than home's: no Praefect
+# (pointless with 1 Gitaly node), no PgBouncer (direct CNPG connection,
+# low enough traffic not to need pooling), no SAML, no Container
+# Registry, no KAS - all addable later if actually needed, matches the
+# "keep it lighter" decision already made for the rest of vps-standby.
+
+global:
+  hosts:
+    domain: vps.huskypup.net
+    gitlab:
+      name: gitlab.vps.huskypup.net
+
+  # Ingress disabled - own Ingress + Traefik https-redirect Middleware
+  # handle routing (infrastructure/vps-standby/gitlab/manifests/ingress.yaml)
+  ingress:
+    enabled: false
+    configureCertmanager: false
+
+  edition: ce
+  time_zone: UTC
+
+  email:
+    from: 'gitlab@vps.huskypup.net'
+    display_name: GitLab (VPS)
+    reply_to: 'noreply@vps.huskypup.net'
+
+  # External PostgreSQL via CNPG (infrastructure/vps-standby/gitlab/manifests/cnpg-cluster.yaml)
+  psql:
+    host: pg-gitlab-rw.gitlab.svc.cluster.local
+    port: 5432
+    database: gitlabhq_production
+    username: app
+    password:
+      secret: pg-gitlab-app
+      key: password
+
+  # Single Gitaly node, no Praefect - HA routing is pointless with 1 node
+  gitaly:
+    enabled: true
+    internal:
+      names:
+        - default
+    external: []
+
+  praefect:
+    enabled: false
+
+  # Standalone Redis (infrastructure/vps-standby/gitlab/manifests/redis.yaml)
+  redis:
+    host: redis-gitlab.gitlab.svc.cluster.local
+    port: 6379
+    auth:
+      enabled: true
+      secret: redis-gitlab-secret
+      key: password
+
+  appConfig:
+    omniauth:
+      enabled: true
+      allowSingleSignOn: ['openid_connect']
+      blockAutoCreatedUsers: false
+      autoLinkUser: ['openid_connect']
+      syncProfileFromProvider: ['openid_connect']
+      syncProfileAttributes: ['email', 'name']
+      providers:
+        - secret: gitlab-oidc-secret
+          key: provider
+
+postgresql:
+  install: false
+
+redis:
+  install: false
+
+pgbouncer:
+  enabled: false
+
+# GitLab's own bundled MinIO for object storage (uploads, artifacts) -
+# separate from vps-minio (which backs CNPG WAL archiving for other apps)
+minio:
+  persistence:
+    storageClass: local-path
+    size: 20Gi
+  resources:
+    requests:
+      cpu: 25m
+      memory: 256Mi
+    limits:
+      memory: 1Gi
+
+registry:
+  enabled: false
+
+gitlab:
+  webservice:
+    minReplicas: 1
+    maxReplicas: 1
+    workerProcesses: 2
+
+    extraEnvFrom:
+      GITLAB_OIDC_CLIENT_ID:
+        secretKeyRef:
+          name: gitlab-oidc-secret
+          key: GITLAB_OIDC_CLIENT_ID
+      GITLAB_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET:
+        secretKeyRef:
+          name: gitlab-oidc-secret
+          key: GITLAB_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET
+    extraEnv:
+      GITLAB_OMNIBUS_CONFIG: |
+        gitlab_rails['omniauth_enabled'] = true
+        gitlab_rails['omniauth_allow_single_sign_on'] = ['openid_connect']
+        gitlab_rails['omniauth_block_auto_created_users'] = false
+        gitlab_rails['omniauth_auto_link_user'] = ['openid_connect']
+        gitlab_rails['omniauth_sync_profile_from_provider'] = ['openid_connect']
+        gitlab_rails['omniauth_sync_profile_attributes'] = ['email', 'name']
+
+        gitlab_rails['omniauth_providers'] = [
+          {
+            'name' => 'openid_connect',
+            'label' => 'Authentik',
+            'args' => {
+              'name' => 'openid_connect',
+              'scope' => ['openid', 'profile', 'email'],
+              'response_type' => 'code',
+              'issuer' => 'https://auth.kube.huskypup.net/application/o/gitlab/',
+              'discovery' => true,
+              'client_auth_method' => 'query',
+              'uid_field' => 'sub',
+              'send_scope_to_token_endpoint' => true,
+              'pkce' => true,
+              'client_options' => {
+                'identifier' => ENV['GITLAB_OIDC_CLIENT_ID'],
+                'secret' => ENV['GITLAB_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET'],
+                'redirect_uri' => 'https://gitlab.vps.huskypup.net/users/auth/openid_connect/callback'
+              }
+            }
+          }
+        ]
+    resources:
+      requests:
+        cpu: 150m
+        memory: 1536Mi
+      limits:
+        memory: 3Gi
+
+  kas:
+    enabled: false
+
+  gitaly:
+    persistence:
+      storageClass: local-path
+      size: 30Gi
+    resources:
+      requests:
+        cpu: 50m
+        memory: 256Mi
+      limits:
+        cpu: "1"
+        memory: 1Gi
+
+  gitlab-runner:
+    install: false
+
+  gitlab-exporter:
+    enabled: true
+    metrics:
+      enabled: false  # no Prometheus on the VPS cluster
+
+  sidekiq:
+    minReplicas: 1
+    maxReplicas: 1
+    resources:
+      requests:
+        cpu: 25m
+        memory: 384Mi
+      limits:
+        cpu: 250m
+        memory: 1536Mi
+
+certmanager:
+  install: false
+  installCRDs: false
+
+prometheus:
+  install: false
+
+nginx-ingress:
+  enabled: false
+
+gitlab-runner:
+  install: false