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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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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How to use Gitlab API plugin in Jenkins?
I created a Jenkins job using Gitlab plugin to validate a merge request. What I want to achieve is to have a possibility to block a merge request from being accepted in case the build has failed. ...
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Running merge request pipeline when commiting to source branch
I'm trying to discover the correct solution for the following scenario:
A merge request is created, and a merge request pipeline is triggered
if: '$CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE == "merge_request_event&...
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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. ...
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Howto run test on test computer instead of build computer, using gitlab
I'm learning gitlab and am asking for advice / best practice here.
I want to install a program to a different machine than the build computer, and run some automatic tests on that machine. How is this ...
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Gitlab runner fails with connection timeout
I have gitlab runner with, docker as executor and docker:latest as default image.
Runner is connected to the project and runs pipeline, but it stuck at
Reinitialized existing Git repository in /...
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Jenkins: Access job/plugin configuration values inside pipeline
I am trying the access the values set on a job's configuration page from within my pipeline. These values are not made available as params, nor are they injected as envvars.
Setup
Jenkins, v2.263.1
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What would be the best way to improve this Gitlab CI/CD (Gitlab.com) pipeline's efficiency and consistency?
This project has a pipeline that runs integration tests against a spun up instance of Gitlab. Each Job in the integration test stage has its own instance testing different build distributions (es, cjs,...
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How to get GitLab CI to rebuild on JIRA issue status change?
I would like to start builds in GitLab CI in response to issue transitions in JIRA.
I have not found a direct way to do that from searching online. I have found ways to get GitLab to tell JIRA what to ...
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How can I make artifacts available to the QA team with a user-friendly UI?
Currently developers push to master, jenkins picks that up, builds it, and then I go to artifacts, download the APK files and upload them in a Microsoft teams group so that the QA team can download ...
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How do I SSH into an EC2 instance from AWS gitlab-runner?
I have setup my own gitlab-runner on AWS following GitLab's walkthrough (Autoscaling GitLab Runner on AWS EC2).
One step in my deployment is to SSH into another EC2 instance. The SSH connection fails ...
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Terraform - gitlab provider does not start
I am using terraform docker image hashicorp/terraform:latest and I define the provider in main.tf as follows:
terraform {
required_providers {
gitlab = {
source = "gitlabhq/gitlab&...
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gitlab kubernernetes integration: configuring the installed runner
I connected my existing kubernetes cluster to gitlab using the gitlab integration in myproject/operations/kubernetes on the left tab pane in the gitlab gui.
After having installed helm + gitlab runner ...
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invalid base hashes in `extends` with 'include' — gitlab-ci
I have a huge .gitlab-ci.yml file that I am trying to turn into the "main" ci file by moving some parts to another files which will then be called with the use of the "include" ...
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Trigger gitlab downstream pipeline from a upstream pipeline in a multi-project using trigger, rules and custom configuration variables
I have this scenario where I want to run the trigger in build stage only when $FLAG variable has been set by the .pre stage. However, the build stage never runs.
How should I conditionally trigger a ...
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Host credential manager and Docker runners
Imagine you have a GitLab Docker runner which you would like to pass credentials from a credential store. That is the CI/CD variable just designates the credentials profile name.
Is there a way to ...
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Gitlab CI - Deploy to an active docker container
I am running production code within an active docker container.
I would like to use the Gitlab CI tool to auto deploy changes to the production environment WITHIN the docker container.
I am having ...
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Is gitlab-runner suit for production use
Is the GitLab CI/CD tools suit/reliable for production use?
As more details, I have more than two servers and they've gitlab-runner inside then connected as runners to my GitLab instance. In this case,...
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Reset Gitlab Project to Repository Content
I had some unwanted files in a repo which is going open-source soon. I removed the files using git-filter-branch. I noticed the project size in Gitlab growing with every such removal. Some research ...
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Is there any other approach for tagging git branch using pipeline without credentials in pipeline code?
I was trying to tag a git branch using Gitlab CI. With the help of this answer from this community,
How to tag source code using gitlabCI
I can successfully tag a git branch from Gitlab CI pipeline. ...
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Can Gitlab Auto DevOps provide an aws/dynamodb-local service without being customised?
I'm using an aws/dynamodb-local Docker container for use during local testing of my Node application and I'd like to integrate it with my Gitlab CI test job.
I have made a rudimentary extension to ...
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Gitlab CI - Change branch dynamically
I have a nodeJS application which I deploy with Gitlab CI.
When pushing to branch XYZ, the corresponding script runs, let's assume on stage 'dev'. That's working.
So far so good.
Is it possible to ...
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GitLab pipeline stop at the stage of pulling an image from Docker hub
Description:
I have created a test project to serve a simple HTML page with httpd:alpine image. The following are the parts of the repository:
index.html:
<html lang="en">
<head>
...
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gitlab CI job fails after manual ftp deploy (lftp) command completes successfully
Scenario
I'm using LFTP to deploy files via sftp. The transfer completes successfully and all files get to the destination but for some reason the job fails.
Question
How can I find out what is ...
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How to render assets when building a static website with GitLab Pages and Jekyll
I'm using Jekyll to build a static site and deploy it with GitLab Pages. This site is compounded of posts (contained in the site/_posts folder) and refer to other HTML and Markdown documents that I ...
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How to copy library source code from other Git repo to an Android Gradle application GitLab build process?
There is an Android application using Grandle for build. It uses a "library" stated in build.gradle file:
dependencies {
api project(path: ':specialproject.speciallibrary', configuration:...
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Devops CICD run ReactJS application while testing with jest + puppeteer [closed]
Scenario
I'm working on getting my end-to-end tests to work in a GitLab pipeline. Currently all the tests run locally but I'm having an issue getting them to run using GitLab's continuous integration ...
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GitLab keeps loading and finally fails when deploying a dockerized node.js app
GitLab Job Log
[0KRunning with gitlab-runner 13.2.0-rc2 (45f2b4ec)
[0;m[0K on docker-auto-scale fa6cab46
[0;msection_start:1595233272:prepare_executor
[0K[0K[36;1mPreparing the "docker+machine&...
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GitLab: Make commit in (shared) CI runner and push to repository/open merge request
I want to run a scheduled pipeline on the shared runners that is able to open a merge request on my repository. I want to run a script that checks if updates for my pinned packages exists and if yes ...
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Gitlab CI push to docker-registry fails
I have GitLab server and a separate docker-registry. I have created a testuser with a testpassword.
My .gitlab-ci.yml
image: docker:latest
services:
- docker:18.09.7-dind
variables:
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Gitlab: Always having the possibility to launch a manual job (even if something failed before)
I'm using gitlab-ci. I have a pipeline that has the following steps :
code-verification
some tests
deploy (manual)
some more tests
rollback (manual)
Both the deploy and the rollback job have to ...
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How to specify 'os' for free gitlab runners ('runs-on' equivalent)
How can I specify the operating system in the .gitlab-ci file to indicate which underlying OS on which the gitlab-runner should be running when using the 2,000 minutes of free execution in with gitlab....
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GitLab CI/CD page listing many gitlab runners that no longer exist
I am running GitLab Runner using a Helm chart as described on the GitLab Runner Helm Chart page.
Everything seems to be working, but after about two months of running I see on my GitLab group that ...
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How comes a GitLab CI/CD job cant' find its artifacts?
In the Open Source ventilator project, we aim to provide those who focus on testing with a ready-to-go flash file for the Arduino controller board.
While the binaries seem to be there, for some ...
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Build Docker images with DinD and BuildKit
I use GitLab's pipelines to describe the deployment process. And, as part of it, I build Docker images. For that purpose, I use Docker-in-Docker to build those images (i.e. download the Docker-in-...
