How to resolve “GitLab: API is not accessible” when pushing to a new repository?

Question

we have a locally-hosted Enterprise Edition of GitLab at my place of employment (currently at v7.12.00-ee ceb5083). I can create a repository through the GUI without issue.

Answer 1

We've encountered this issue when hosting our gitlab on a "compute engine" from google cloud. The reason for this behaviour was not having a "swap" configured in our machine. Gitlab wasn't able to allocate additional memory.

We decided to scale up our memory instead of creating a swap partition but it's your choice... :)