{"id":5508,"date":"2019-08-21T22:40:34","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T03:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=5508"},"modified":"2019-08-23T07:52:54","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T12:52:54","slug":"setting-up-gitlab-runner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=5508","title":{"rendered":"Setting up gitlab-runner"},"content":{"rendered":"

CLI on the GitLab server:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

# Set up the GitLab Repo
\ncurl -L https:\/\/packages.gitlab.com\/install\/repositories\/runner\/gitlab-runner\/script.rpm.sh<\/p>\n

# Install package
\nyum install gitlab-runner<\/p>\n

# verify runner is executable
\nll `which gitlab-runner`
\n# If needed, flag it executable \u2013 shouldn\u2019t<\/em> be a problem with RPM installations, but it\u2019s been a problem for me with manual installs
\n#chmod ugo+x \/usr\/local\/bin\/gitlab-runner<\/p>\n

# Register a runner
\ngitlab-runner register<\/p>\n

# use URL & token from http:\/\/<GITLABSERVER>\/admin\/runners
\n# add tags, if you want to use tags to assign runner
\n# executor: shell (and docker, if you want to use docker executors. The shell executor is the simplest case, so I am starting there)<\/p>\n

# start the runner
\ngitlab-runner start<\/p>\n

On the GitLab Web GUI: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Admin section => Overview => Runners. Click pencil to edit the runner and uncheck “Lock to current projects”, and (unless you want to use tagging) check “Run untagged jobs”<\/p>\n

** I was getting an error in every pipeline job saying the git command was not found.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

For most other commands, you can append to the path in the before_script section of your .gitlab-ci.yml<\/p>\n

before_script:
\n– export PATH=$PATH:\/opt\/whatever\/odd\/path\/bin<\/p>\n

But<\/em> that doesn\u2019t work in this case because we\u2019re not getting that far: the bootstrap \u201cstuff\u201d cannot fetch the project to see<\/em> the before script. Git, on my system, was part of the GitLab package. I just created a symlink into a \u201cnormal\u201d binary location:<\/p>\n

root@gitlab:~# which git
\n\/opt\/gitlab\/embedded\/bin\/git
\nroot@gitlab:~# ln -s \/opt\/gitlab\/embedded\/bin\/git \/usr\/bin\/git<\/p>\n

And we\u2019ve got successful test execution:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

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CLI on the GitLab server: # Set up the GitLab Repo curl -L https:\/\/packages.gitlab.com\/install\/repositories\/runner\/gitlab-runner\/script.rpm.sh # Install package yum install gitlab-runner # verify runner is executable ll `which gitlab-runner` # If needed, flag it executable \u2013 shouldn\u2019t be a problem with RPM installations, but it\u2019s been a problem for me with manual installs #chmod ugo+x \/usr\/local\/bin\/gitlab-runner …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,30],"tags":[660,232,809,810],"class_list":["post-5508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coding","category-system-administration","tag-ci-cd","tag-gitlab","tag-pipelines","tag-shell-executor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5511,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5508\/revisions\/5511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}