Building a Docker container using Gitlab CI Docker runner

Question

I am trying to build a docker image using Gitlab Docker runner.

For this I have configured the runner with a shared volume in /etc/gitlab-runner/config.toml called /builds:

concurrent = 1
check_interval = 0

[[runners]]
  name = "My Docker Runner"
  url = "http://host"
  token = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
  executor = "docker"
  [runners.docker]
    tls_verify = false
    image = "docker:latest"
    privileged = false
    disable_cache = false
    volumes = ["/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock", "/cache", "/builds"]
  [runners.cache]

I created a .gitlab-ci.yml in my repo which loosely looks like this:

image: alpine:latest

variables:
  GIT_STRATEGY: none

test_ci:
  script:
    - apk update
    - apk add docker
    - apk add git
    - docker info
    - git clone http://gitlab-ci-token:${CI_JOB_TOKEN}@host/user/repo.git /builds/user/repo
    - docker build -t database .
    - docker run database

I have also created a Dockerfile in the repo which looks like this:

FROM postgres:9.6

ADD /builds/user/repo/script.sql /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/

Everything works alright except for the Docker ADD instruction which fails because the /builds/user/repo/script.sql cannot be found:

ADD failed: stat /var/lib/docker/tmp/docker-builder886348850/builds/user/repo/script.sql: no such file or directory

So I imagine that the /builds volume I am trying to share between containers is not working as I am expecting it to ... Could someone help me with this? I would like to be able to share the code which is cloned on the runner container to the docker build command and then to the newly created container.

Answer 1

Weird Docker. I changed the WORKDIR in the Dockerfile and it worked:

FROM postgres:9.6

WORKDIR /builds/user/
ADD repo/script.sql /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/

EDIT The /builds folder does not exist on the host system. I thought that adding it to the runner's config would create a volume container that would be shared between containers. But no. So I removed it from the runner config, /etc/gitlab-runner/config.toml:

[[runners]]
  name = "My Docker Runner"
  url = "http://host"
  token = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
  executor = "docker"
  [runners.docker]
    tls_verify = false
    image = "docker:latest"
    privileged = false
    disable_cache = false
    volumes = ["/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock", "/cache"]
  [runners.cache]