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Is GitLab flow (or GitHub flow, etc) anti build-once deploy-everywhere?

Historically, especially in the Java world, build-once, deploy everywhere has been a very big thing for deployments. Artifacts should be built exactly one time when a release is made and stored ...
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Are keys directly under `only` section treated as a union or intersection (or/and)?

From the GitLab CI/CD documentation on only/except it is suggested that the keys directly under the only section of a yaml CI pipeline specification are logically joined by an AND. Regarding only: ...
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Building Jenkin pipeline with gitlab info

I am new to DevOps world and desperately looking for your help. We have multiple API depositors in gitlab subgroup, I am trying to establish CICD pipeline,which will connect to gitlab subgroup, 1) ...
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Internal Server Error while running docker-compose to install Gitlab

I'm installing Gitlab on my server using docker-compose based on Docker Docs. My SSH port is not the default one (22) and I have changed it to something else like 2228. So the YML file became like ...
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How to automate installing an ISO in a VM?

We're trying to develop CI/CD processes to automate testing and installing our builds. Ya know, as one does in DevOps. The end result of our build process are ISOs that use Red Hat Kickstart to ...
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Combining CD and GitFlow

Firstly, I apologize if the title is not descriptive enough or does not describe my problem well enough. I'm struggling to figure out how to describe my issue in brief! It really seems like this ...
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Set session max duration on gitlab.com - 2FA

I am using gitlab on gitlab.com website (not self-hosted). Since we are using laptops, I wanted to force the use of a 2FA token (Smartphone application or a Yubikey) to prevent our code-source to be ...
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Serve an application built by the pipeline

In the company that I work, the frontend application is very complex, so one of our layers of testing includes building/serving the application and testing with integrations mocked (The application ...
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Multiple Microservices in CI environment

hey we have a GitLab stage and inside that we need to start an environment with several containers we pull from a local registry. We use compose and a docker in docker solution for that at the moment....
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Cost-efficient hosting for CI/CD?

I'm paying over $300/month for Kubernetes to have CI/CD in GitLab. And it only covers web apps, Android apps and deployment to Google Cloud. Plus some staging environments, that do not require many ...
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Gitlab CI error during connect: Get http://docker:2375/v1.40/containers/json?all=1: dial tcp: lookup docker on xx.xx.xx.x:xx: no such host

I've recently created a new repository in gitlab.com, started a new Ubuntu instance in digitalocean, installed docker and gitlab-runner in the ubuntu instance. Also, did gitlab-runner register and ...
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Trying to migrate CI/CD process from Jenkins to Gitlab Runner + Docker on Windows

I need to improve the CI process of my projects, which is basically composed of the following things: a Linux server, that contains a Jenkins master a VM with Windows 10, with a Jenkins slave, ...
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How to properly manage mupltiple environmental variables with Gitlab CI and Docker Swarm?

In our project we are using Docker and we have multiple services with a pile of environmental variables (mostly credentials to various dbs, mail, samba, 30+ entries in total). It all worked well with ...
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GitLab CI/CD: How do I generate a change log between pipeline runs?

I'm currently using Gitlab CI/CD combined with Fastlane on our build machine to perform nightly builds of an iOS app, and push those builds to TestFlight on completion. So far, so good. However, I've ...
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Gitlab CI: Curl to localhost slows down over time?

I've been trying to make a GitLab CI job work, but I am not allowed to change the basics (e.g. stages, starting image). The code is using Python/Flask API which accepts a POST request with CSV data, ...
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How to execute shell command or call URL on new gitlab issue?

I want to execute a shell command or call a URL when a user creates a new issue. The reason behind this is to synchronize our Gitlab issues with our CalDav calendar infrastructure. We are using Gitlab ...
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Can I persist a Yarn install through different stages in a GitLab pipeline?

I was thinking about a pipeline with the following steps: Install image dependencies (such as java, node, yarn and openssl) Install node packages needed for the build Install PMD Do a code Analysis ...
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Docker machine would give up to generate new CloudStack machines in GitLab autoscaling context?

How comes that GitLab gives up on generating new runners? We use an autoscaler setup with: Docker machine 0.16.1 Apache CloudStack driver One autoscaler works fine. But in the other region the ...
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CI pipelines, concurrency and build results possibly overwriting each-other

I'm currently using gitlab-ci to generate docker images for some repositories, however i dont feel as though this solution is as reliable as it should be. I can forsee a issue with multiple builds ...
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Gitlab CI\CD Error: Failed to create container volume for /builds/root Unable to load image

I've installed the Gitlab local server and also install the Gitlab-runner and everything needs to use the CI/CD tools. After that When I run the CI/CD tools to build and deploy the project, it makes ...
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Gitlab CI/CD fails to build docker image

I have built a custom base image from alpine and use it as the base for ruby services that we develop. FROM ruby:2.4.2-alpine ... I use Gitlab and Gitlab's docker registry along with it. Each ...
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Persistent storageClass for GitLab on Kubernetes [closed]

Using the official helm chart and documentation, I want to deploy GitLab to Kubernetes. The storage guide shows how to store persistent data and also offers example Helm values. Sadly this doesn't ...
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Trigger cicd pipeline after merge request accept on master, Gitlab

Trying to run some task after merge request get accept (only on master branch). I am aware of only: - master -merge_requests config options, but want to specifically run pipeline only when code get ...
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Trigger a GitlabCI pipeline after it detects a change via a curl callback

I would like to trigger a GitlabCI pipeline that builds a Packer image, whenever there is a new version of a binary released in Github. How could I do that via the ci yaml configuration? Should I ...
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Docker instance of Gitlab EE Initial Configuration will not start

My system is running Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS and Docker version 18.09.5, build e8ff056, Gitlab version gitlab-ee=12.0.3-ee.0. I am trying to spin up a docker container with the following run command: ...
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Equivalent of GitLab's “before_script” for Jenkins?

I'm looking for Jenkins' equivalent of the before_script keyword provided by GitLab. So far what I found is the input keyword that you can use before entering the steps part of the stage, but this ...
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GitLab CI/CD job without pulling LFS files?

When our GitLab CI/CD job runs, it first pulls a Docker image and then git clones the entire repo. Afterwards, the Build commands are executed in the Docker image, etc. Is it possible to only clone ...
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Set global repository access to GitLab via GitLab connections and Gitlab OAuth [closed]

I am trying to configure a secured Jenkins server in a company network where GitLab CE is already running. I have set the access control and the authorization system in Jenkins via the GitLab ...
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How to add status flags or manual steps to CI/CD process with GitLab Pipelines [closed]

I'm trying to set up a CI/CD GitLab Pipeline with feature branches with various stages of testing, both automated and manual, culminating with an automatic merge to master at the end. I'm struggling ...
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How to run a build from a specific old tag in gitlab ci?

I can build from a specific old tag in teamity. Screenshot: How to run a build from a specific old tag in gitlab ci? variables: MAVEN_OPTS: "-Djava.awt.headless=true -Dmaven.repo.local=.m2/...
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Auto Deploy after push to git

I have some Codeigniter projects on some domains (on the same server), and the project is already in git. How to ensure server gets the new update when I push the code to git? Can anyone explain ...
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What package manager does the gitlab docker CI image use?

I'm trying to install additional software but apt-get is not available. So in my .gitlab-ci.yml file I have: image: docker:stable What is the image based off from?
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Gitlab - Is there any reason not to default enable 'Allow Users to Request Access' for Projects?

Is there any reason not to default enable 'Allow Users to Request Access' for Projects? I can conceive that there may be a reason this is not enabled by default. But I am considering enabling it if ...
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Code review with GitLab?

Is there a way to perform code review (for your own projects) using GitLab? For instance automated reviews, but also manual review where you can comment and propose changes at a review of a commit?
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Overview of Gitlab CI/CD process for multi-project SOA application. Releasing and Versioning

I have a SOA-application. Each service is a separate project in Gitlab with its own Dockerfile. So, in terms of structure it looks as follows \UserService Dockerfile \src \OrderService ...
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How do I automate the process of pulling the latest code and restarting a service on git push?

I have an application (Logstash) running on a Linux VM and the settings for it are on a GitLab repo. What I want is for the VM to pull the latest version of the settings file and restart the service ...
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Is there a [ci skip] option in GitLab CI?

I'm debugging the use of a report creator. I forgot a line and would like to edit the code without triggering the build pipeline. I know that it's possible to write [ci skip] in the commit pipeline ...
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How to use shared runner (dind) for build stage and runner with shell executor on my server for deploy stage? [closed]

I want to do the build of my image on a shared runner and build it on gitlab registry. then I want to pull that image, on my server using the runner on my server using shell executor. but I face a ...
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How should CI/CD deploy to production environment - copy artifacts or git pull from the server?

We have an internal CI/CD server running private GitLab. It has the source code of our NodeJS project. We would like to run CI/CD and have it deploys to our on-premises production server. (Let's ...
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Access denied when pulling private registry image using helm with gitlab runner helm chart and ci job

I have a kubernetes cluster with 1 master and 2 workers. All nodes have their IP address. Let's call them like this: master-0 worker-0 worker-1 The network pod policy and all my nodes communication ...
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How to handle Webhook Endpoint that is behind an OAuth Redirect? [closed]

I am trying to connect a webhook from GitLab (external standalone) to Jenkins (a pod on Openshift) However, when anyone tries to log onto Jenkins, they are redirected to Openshift first, asked to ...
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Read webhook payload in Gitlab CI

I have a project (PROJECT_A) that is triggered through a webhook, and expects the variable $PRODUCT to be set. Its value is used to trigger a certain path in the build. The job in the .gitlab-ci.yml ...
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How to ensure testing execution order with GitLab CI? [closed]

I have about half a dozen of integration tests (handled with Robot Framework) to run in a GitLab CI pipeline. Once upon a time, we did not care about the execution order of these tests. The ...
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Is it possible to have multiple gitlab-ci files in a single repo?

I have a single repo handling integration tests for 4 different software projects. As those projects share common resources, I'd like to create a generic file in which all those common features are ...
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Run scripts which are stored in GitLab from Jenkins

I have configured Jenkins Build Jobs and Deployment Jobs from using Jenkins shell. But I put all the commands in Shell to execute. Can I store those commands in GitLab and execute from jenkins?
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How to handle large deployments using tools like gitlab and docker

How to deploy multiple instances (40+) of the same application with gitlab? (it is a simple tomcat web app) I want to be able to individually upgrade/downgrade them using web interface. We already ...
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How to trigger Jenkins job by deploying git pipline using webhook?

I have a Jenkins job which I want to trigger after deploying pipeline in Gitlab, Is this possible with webhooks or some other way?
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zip: command not found after installing zip on NODE docker image, even after installing p7zip?

I'm trying to zip my dist folder and post to it Azure's kudu zipdeploy endpoint but I keep getting this error regardless of the fact that I have installed a zipping package myself. My docker image: ...
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How to implement GitLab Flow branching model for microservices?

Recently I’ve been looking into alternatives to the git flow branching model and since I’m already using GitLab, I stumbled upon their own branching model called GitLab flow. I’m currently trying to ...
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How to make one branch public while the others remain private on GitLab?

I am currently working on a LaTeX template. I chose gitlab to host the template. Now I want to give some colleagues access to my template, but only to the master branch. I use the other branches to ...

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