Gitlab ce Pull error

I’m fairly new to Gitlab and busy with the upgrade on a new server (RHEL) with podman installed.
Followed all the steps in this guide - https://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-install-gitlab-with-docker-on-ubuntu-2004/

When I try to pull the Gitlab ce image I get the following error and not sure How to proceed , any assistance or link that can assist.

I have tried using nexus to pull the same image but still the same error.

podman pull company.co.za:0000/gitlablatest/gitlab/gitlab-ce
Trying to pull company.co.za:0000/gitlablatest/gitlab/gitlab-ce…
Near line 34 (last key parsed ‘’): Key ‘registries’ was already created as a hash.
Error: error pulling image “company.co.za:0000/gitlablatest/gitlab/gitlab-ce”: unable to pull company.co.za:0000/gitlablatest/gitlab/gitlab-ce: unable to pull image: Error initializing source docker://company.co.za:0000/gitlablatest/gitlab/gitlab-ce:latest: error loading registries configuration: Near line 34 (last key parsed ‘’): Key ‘registries’ was already created as a hash.

Also this command - podman pull gitlab/gitlab-ee:latest
Error: error pulling image “gitlab/gitlab-ee:latest”: unable to pull gitlab/gitlab-ee:latest: error getting default registries to try: Near line 34 (last key parsed ‘’): Key ‘registries’ was already created as a hash.

Look at your registries.conf file. You have a syntax issue somewhere.
This file can be in /etc/containers/registries.conf or $HOME/.config/containers/registries.conf

More info in the official docs: Chapter 2. Working with container images Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | Red Hat Customer Portal

@balonik , thanks a lot …it was indeed the config file …Was using the standard one and needed to make some changes to it…Appreciate the help

Hi @balonik , Do you perhaps have any simple guides to install and configure GitLab docker image
Would appreciate that. Thanks in advance

@Chiefshole sorry, but I don’t run GitLab in Docker and I don’t have any working/tested guide I could give you.

@Chiefshole I don’t use docker, but the official Gitlab docs seem straightforward and simple enough: GitLab Docker images | GitLab and there are various methods depending on which way you want to deploy it. The howtoforge document is most likely loosely based on this.

Hi iwalker , great thanks for the links. I’m using the same will see how far I go…Thanks again for the support.