Questions tagged [gitlab]
For questions about GitLab, an open source Git repository manager with issue tracking, wiki and continuous integration facilities.
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What is the difference between `gitlab-runner start` and `gitlab-runner run`? What is the purpose of `run`?
What is the difference between gitlab-runner start and gitlab-runner run?
The documentation is not very clear on this:
gitlab-runner run
This is main command that is executed when GitLab Runner is ...
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Storing the path of changed items in a variable for gitlab CICD
We have a repo with a structure as below (simplified):
Root
|- vars
| |- hostNameX
| |- hostVarsForAnsible
|- ...
We want our pipeline to trigger only when changes are made within /vars/* (...
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Question about Jenkins deployment based on .NET Projects
So I was tasked to automate the build/deployment process for our projects and since the project stucure is rather unique, I would like to ask if an automation is even possible in my case.
The project ...
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Is it a good practice to run unit tests inside build job in Gitlab CI?
We want to run unit tests against a built Docker image and not by installing the environment inside Gitlab CI runner
We don't want to push the docker image to a registry and pull it back in a test job ...
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Colored logging messages from Python script within GitLab CI
I am using a docker container for my GitLab CI and would like to have any output/logging messages in color inside the CI. What I mean: the commands from .gitlab-ci.yml are in color, but the outputs of ...
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Share cache between gitlab.com owned runner and self hosted runner
We are in the middle of migrating from Self Hosted GitLab to Gitlab.com (Cloud). This also means that we are shifting building through shell, to building through Docker (using Kaniko).
A summary of ...
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Deploying microservices in a consistent way using different gitlab repositories
I'm looking for a good organization to deploy our solution consisting in multiple apps using Gitlab and K8S.
Our SaaS app that is made of :
A backend app, mostly our API (django)
A user app (React)
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Trying to run a simple API GET request for private Gitlab account
I am trying to run a simple API request to GitLab through powershell 5.1. After generating an access token with all privileges using the Web UI I tried to run the following:
invoke-restmethod https://...
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Git keeps asking for ssh passphrase when SSH is already defined in GitLab
I'm playing around with a personal GitLab account to get familiar with its' ins and outs. First, I followed this primer on setting ssh keys and added public and private ED25519 keys to ~\.ssh. I added ...
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Automate starting and stopping of multiple containers on single production server
I am doing a project for my university where I have the following requirements:
I want to start and stop (docker) containers with different apps
I have a singe (university) server to my disposal
I ...
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Gitlab Parent-Child pipeline: using branches in the parent pipeline repository for new feature implementations
Environment: Parent-child pipeline branch off of main.
Branch: testBranch
Expected functioning config name:
.scan.yml:refs/testBranch@url/scanPipeline
Working config name (this uses the default master/...
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Gitlab: Run CI when a dependency is updated (on pypi or on its master branch)
I am managing a gitlab repo which has as dependencies two packages which are also hosted on gitlab, and on pip.
As part of my CI pipeline, I install the latest version of these dependencies from pypi (...
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Jenkins Gitlab integration Client error: Remote host terminated the handshake
I have installed Jenkins version 2.303.2 in RHEL and installed gitlab plugin in it. From the Jenkins server I can telnet to gitlab server but when I try to configure gitlab in Jenkins UI, it gives ...
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gitlab pipeline: cannot pass $CI_REPOSITORY_URL to downstream pipeline
I have a job in a cicd pipeline which needs to start a pipeline in a different project and reference the calling project.
I have created a job like this:
deploy:
variables:
PROJECTURL: $...
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Gitlab pipeline + Jump host + execute HELM
What is worked:
Steps:
directly go to server via SSH (behind the JH)
via SSH to another server
pull from Artifactory for testing only
executing HELM chart to pull from artifactory and deploy on k8s ...
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Gitlab - Sonarqube integration fails
We have gitlab and sonarcube installed in two servers and try integrate sonarcube to gitlab. We had successfully added required token and parameters.
When we try to access sonarcube using gitlab ...
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Gitlab (self hosted gitlab) pipeline fail when trying to fetch repository
I've setup own gitlab server on AWS EC2 Instance based on this image - https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-w6ykryurkesjq?ref_=aws-mp-console-subscription-detail and assign Elastic IP for ...
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Do GitLab Runner worker nodes need to have network access to GitLab?
GitLab runner has an autoscale feature that allows the Runner Manager to dynamically spawn new worker nodes on demand.
The documentation says that: "GitLab Runner is going to need to talk to your ...
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Pipeline could not pull repo in GitLab CI/CD
I have a the repo with test CI pipeline, which is the following:
# .gitlab-ci.yml
image:
name: gcc
build:
stage: build
script:
- echo 123
And it fails:
Running with gitlab-runner 14.3.1 (...
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Gitlab runner fails with connection timeout , connectivity works fine
Same question was asked by myself before. But now I registered runner with sudo.
Yet I get following error in pipeline
Getting source from Git repository
Fetching changes with git depth set to 50...
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How to track deployments of multiple interconnected repositories
We are working with a ERP system (called Odoo, but that does not matter so much).
It consists of many building blocks. Some of this modules/addons are dependent on others, some are standalone, but ...
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Parametrize gitlab ci pipeline
There is the following simple pipeline:
build → test → deploy
that uses specified python version for all stages, for example 3.8.
How can I scale (parametrize) it for python with versions: 3.7, 3.8 ...
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GitLab CI/CD get CI_MERGE_REQUEST_LABELS after merge successfully
I know that the docs say, that the variable CI_MERGE_REQUEST_LABELS is available if pipeline is a merge request pipeline and the MR is open.
My dream was it to label my MR's with patch, minor or major ...
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GitLab variable false but job is running
I'm triggering job via API, passing custom variables.
Here is example request: curl -X POST -F token=${TRIGGER_TOKEN} -F ref=${branch} -F "variables[SHOULD_COPY_ASSETS]=false"
This how job ...
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Where does the string docker.example.com in my GitLab CI job come from?
I am trying to have a Docker image deployed to my server by GitLab CI, but it only worked once¹ and then dies with the error message below. Here is the .gitlab-ci.yml snippet:
deploy-image:
image: ...
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git-p4 rebase command fails when using "main" as the default git branch
I'm using the git-p4 script (doc reference, code reference) to drive some processes to synchronize code stored in Perforce Helix in to GitLab. It works fine for my needs, though now that GitLab ...
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gitlab ci: How to share cache between fork and parent repository?
first please read the context of my inquiry.
A project named teamspace/foo I maintain at work makes each teammate fork it. I have a scheduled pipeline that remakes cache each night.
Now onto the ...
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Gitlab build from multiple repositories - git submodules
I have gitlab repo ZERO (project) which serves as a code base for multiple websites (repo ONE, TWO, THREE..), these are also gitlab repositories. I am using gitlab CI/CD options, I want to be able to ...
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Gitlab CI: change pipeline definition dynamically
I need to pass info from stage A to stage B so I can change stage B dynamically.
Details:
I have a stage (A) where I validate a terraform plan and check if
it's going to destroy resources.
I have ...
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How do I fail a gitlab pipeline job?
I am currently using dependency checker to scan my applications via gitlab
This is how my pipeline looks like.
dependency_scanning:
stage: security_scan
script:
# Run dependency check on all ...
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Automating deployment of microservices from start to finish
I'm currently part of a team that trains multiple pods of new hires. Each pod creates a client simulated project that involves the following steps:
Creating kubernetes namespaces for each pod for ...
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Gitlab review k8s role with postgres-operator
I want to integrate review enironments of kubernetes cluster and crunchy postgres-operator.
I have integrated group k8s cluster with enabled “Namespace per environment” option.
My review deploy ...
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ERROR This job is stuck because the project doesn't have any runners online assigned to it. even though i have added runner and it is alive
Despite of the fact runner is alive. Why this error is coming
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New Runners are locked and the checkbox to unlock them is disabled
I'm running the latest version of on-prem GitLab (version 14.1.0-ee). The last few new GitLab runners I've added show up as locked. I open the runners config in the WebUI and I see that the "Lock ...
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GitLab Maintain versions of the code in GitLab CI/CD pipeline for the develop branch
I would like to ensure that code merged via merge request in a GitLab from the feature branch to our develop branch has always a new unique version (gitflow strategy).
Version currently stored as the ...
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GitLab CI Job branch not up to date with origin
I'm new to GitLab CI and don't really understand how Git works within the Jobs.
When I'm checking git status on the first running job it is always on detached head state.
If I'm switching to another ...
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Deploy to Ubuntu server with python script and awsebcli fails
Just yesterday everything worked fine on our AWS ElasticBeanstalk continuous deployment, but today suddenly fails with the following errors:
$ pip install awsebcli -q --upgrade
DEPRECATION: Python 2.7 ...
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How to use script in a Gitlab bridge job?
I have a job which needs to include another job and needs to append a value to a variable, such as:
nightlies:
variables:
BUILD_NAME: "nightly"
script:
- $BUILD_NAME="${...
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Docker compose up, Error starting userland proxy: listen tcp 0.0.0.0:22: bind: address already in use
I'm trying to a gitlab/gitlab-ce image up and running with docker-compose on macOS (Big Sur) (docker-compose up -d). I'm using docker-machine with the virtualBox driver.
However, when starting the ...
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Do I have to include gitlab variables in my terraform code in order for my credentials to be recognized?
I am trying to set up a pipeline, which is supposed to deploy terraform code into an aws account. The code works fine locally, and I have setup and imported the state bucket and dynamodb table which ...
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Should I struggle for minimalistic context in GitLab CI jobs?
I'm designing a build & deploy pipeline for our project. We have two jobs:
build -- builds a docker image with our app and pushes it to a container registry.
deploy -- communicates with an ...
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Checking Jenkins build status from only one pipeline and avoid from other pipeline pointing to same gitlab repo in PR build
Hi I am having two jenkins pipeline pointing to same git repo one pipeline is named as mainpipeline and other is sit pipeline. Before sit pipeline our git PR build is checking the build status from ...
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How to get code onto aws ec2 instance using terraform and gitlabs
I've just started learning Terraform (utilizing the AWS provider) and I have managed to replicate our infrastructure which includes quite a few amazon web services.
I can successfully deploy it and ...
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Gitlab CI/CD: deploy docker image to existing kubernetes cluster
I have node.js application that I need to deploy to exising kubernetes cluster.
The cluster is setup using kops on AWS.
I have created .gitlab-ci.yml file for building docker images.
So, whenever a ...
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Auto create Jenkins jobs for branches and pull request via declarative code in scm
I am looking to auto create jobs in jenkins upon pull request , branches, master push etc similar to what we do in Gitlab. My SCM is butbucket here.
I have so far setup docker based agent integration ...
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Where/what is the `auto-devops` script in gitlab's "auto devops" staging stage?
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/blob/master/lib/gitlab/ci/templates/Jobs/Deploy.gitlab-ci.yml
staging:
extends: .auto-deploy
stage: staging
script:
- auto-deploy check_kube_domain
- ...
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How do I set a base domain for gitlab's auto devops?
Docs seem to point to https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/clusters/index.html#base-domain
However it doesn't seem to specify how to set the base domain strangely enough.
Can't seem to find info no ...
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Can I run multiple pipelines in a single GitLab repo using GitLab CI/CD?
I know that I can't have multiple gitlab-ci.yml files in one repo, but it still seems fairly limited. Say for example I have one set of tests I want to run whenever a change is pushed or on PRs, and ...
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How can we prepare GitLab runners using Ansible deploys
Given
We run an in-house GitLab server, with many projects (aka "repositories")
We provision all servers using Ansible (and deploy projects using pip)
We deploy to
dev.project.example.com
...
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GitLab CI/CD and building on Mac Mini with M1 Processor - Provision Profile
I followed a guide
to setup a simple GitLab runner on my 2020 mac Mini with an M1 processor. Everything builds great except for iOS.
My error:
Xcode build done. ...
