To connect Git operations securely to your GitLab repository, you will need to configure GitLab SSH keys both locally and remotely. Here's a quick example of how to do it.

To generate an SSH key pair, you can use the `ssh-keygen` command on your Raspberry Pi. This will create a public and private key pair that you can use to authenticate with your GitLab server.

Here's a quick example of how to perform a GitHub SSH clone operation. In just five minutes, learn how to create SSH keys, configure them in GitHub and perform the GitHub clone with SSH keys in Git.