Globally hide/disable project menu items that are enabled by default

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Hello,

First of all, forgive me if this question has already been asked, but I was not able to find a relative answer so far.

We recently deployed a Self-Managed GitLab v16.9 and have the following question:

When I create a new project, there are several options inside the project-menu, e.g.: “Issues”, “Secure”, “Deploy”, “Operate”, “Monitor” that are not needed for our use case.
I was able to hide “Issues” and “GitLab CI/CD” globally, by updating the gitlab.yaml, but for the rest of these options, I have only managed to disable them only for each project separately, via the project Settings.

Is there a way to globally disable these as well?

Thank you in advance

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In /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb these options are available:

### Default project feature settings
# gitlab_rails['gitlab_default_projects_features_issues'] = true
# gitlab_rails['gitlab_default_projects_features_merge_requests'] = true
# gitlab_rails['gitlab_default_projects_features_wiki'] = true
# gitlab_rails['gitlab_default_projects_features_snippets'] = true
# gitlab_rails['gitlab_default_projects_features_builds'] = true
# gitlab_rails['gitlab_default_projects_features_container_registry'] = true

You say you changed gitlab.yaml, so not entirely sure if you mean gitlab.rb or you edited a different file. If so, then you should be making changes to gitlab.rb, not to any other files.

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Hello iwalker,

Thank you for your response.
The file you change depends on the installation type (see here: GitLab CI/CD instance configuration | GitLab) so gitlab.yaml and gitlab.rb contain pretty much the same things.

I was able to disable “Issues” and “Build” by updating this file, but I don’t think that I can disable “Secure”, “Deploy”, “Operate” or “Monitor” globally in the same way.