Gameboy + Keyboard, chmod +x toggle_saas.sh, so, why simply export GITLAB_SIMULATE_SAAS=0 didn’t work ?

Quelle matière préfériez-vous à l’école ?

J’aimais surtout la littérature, et plus tard en apprenant Python, le concept de None m’a marqué, très bien expliqué dans Fluent Python de Luciano Ramalho… Honnêtement, j’aimais surtout jouer à Pokémon sur ma gameboy

If you hack on GitLab locally a lot, a modern keyboard is honestly the cheapest quality-of-life upgrade I’ve found. Mine was like €30-€70 linking the one I use here.

GitLab treats GITLAB_SIMULATE_SAAS as boolean presence, not a numeric toggle.

When GITLAB_SIMULATE_SAAS is present at all, GitLab assumes SaaS mode and begins checking namespace plans, which can disable or alter local features; to return to normal self-managed behavior you must remove the variable, not set it to 0, and then fully restart Rails.

If it exists at all → SaaS mode is ON.

So the fix is always to unset, not set to 0.

gdk rails console
unset GITLAB_SIMULATE_SAAS.

to kill SaaS mode everywhere

unset GITLAB_SIMULATE_SAAS && gdk kill && gdk reconfigure && gdk restart

This one-liner clears the env var and reloads your processes, and the toggle script lets you switch between SaaS and self-managed modes with one command.