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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GitLab Container Registry: errors: denied: requested access to the resource is denied [...] error parsing HTTP 401 response body
When I run podman push (the equiv of docker push) to get my image up to GitLab's container registry, I'm getting the following error.
errors: denied: requested access to the resource is denied [...] ...
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Update to latest patch release using docker-compose
I would like to update gitlab automatically. Our docker-compose.yaml file looks like this:
web:
image: 'gitlab/gitlab-ee:latest'
restart: always
hostname: 'example.com'
environment:
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load list to pod running redis, from external source
I have a job which is running redis pod.:
apiVersion: batch/v1
kind: Job
metadata:
name: redis-job
spec:
parallelism: 1
ttlSecondsAfterFinished: 10
template:
metadata:
name: redis-...
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Gitlab pipeline failing to checkout repository
I am running a gitlab CI pipeline with the following .yml file:
image: buildtools2019
stages:
- build
build-job:
stage: build
script:
- echo "Starting to build the project"
- ...
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gitlab container registry: how to test that it's set up and working?
I'm trying to push for the first time to a gitlab project container registry.
I am not a gitlab administrator so I can't change global settings. But as far as my project is concerned I've made sure ...
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GitLab tag removal through the web interface does not actually remove the tag from Git
When I hit the delete button in the Tags interface I can verify the tag does not show, but when semantic-release tries to run, I still git tag on the runner I still get
fatal: tag 'v5.2.3' already ...
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gitlab project registry - docker push fails with invalid reference format error message
I have create a personal access token for my project. in my gitlab-ci.yml I'm trying to create a docker image and then save it in my project's repository.
I'm able to login - I see an explicit ...
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What regex engine does GitLab use?
Let's say I have a rule like this,
- if: '$CI_COMMIT_TITLE =~ /^(fix|feat|perf|docs|build|test|ci|refactor)\S*:/'
It occurs to me that ^ does not match the start of any line in a multiline regex, ...
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docker command substitution fails on gitlab
I am trying to run the following command as part of a deployment in Gitlab.
TIMESTAMP=$(date +%s) docker stack deploy --with-registry-auth --compose-file $(`printf "docker-compose.%s.unimark.yaml&...
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Gitlab : Download artifacts from a job in another child pipeline
I want to download an Artifact in a job present in a Child pipeline from another job present in another Child pipeline part of the same parent-child pipeline hierarchy.
I tried with the files below ...
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Checking pipeline status stuck
I have installed gitlab-runner into a container, and made it register.
I got a runner with the green light into my gitlab.private.com open but seems that the Checking pipeline status is stuck and ...
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How to run a gitlab child pipeline only on changes in merge requests?
According to the documentation, parent-child pipelines should work well with rules - so i'm trying to setup a parent-child pipeline, where the child pipelines only run when something has actually ...
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How to get merge request stats using Git CLI command?
I needed to get the final stats on a sample Merge Request with multiple commits on it.
I have tried pulling in git ls-remote origin 'refs/merge-requests/*/head' then trying to get insertion and ...
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Can I create a pipeline stage which unconditionally passes but one in which a subsequent stage conditionally runs?
This is a follow up to Should a pipeline fail if early termination is desired?. In that question, I'm asking about best practices and whether this request is sound. In this, I just need to know how ...
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Should a pipeline fail if early termination is desired?
Normally a pipeline breaks down into stages such that each stage has one or more jobs. In order to stop the pipeline from running conditionally, you simply fail that stage of the pipeline.
For ...
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What happens when two jobs produce artifacts with conflicting locations?
In my GitLab CI log I pipeline with three stages
build creates a distribution
semantic-release which bumps the version
publish
The problem occurs in publish. Sometimes I see the version unbumped. ...
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How to get all open Merge Requests using git command line?
I need to get all open Merge requests by author and if possible within a time frame. Tried using this command for Github where it works fine -
git ls-remote origin 'pull/*/head'
But in gitlab, this ...
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Docker build from gitlab pipeline
I do have the following "shared.gitlab-ci.yml"
variables:
GIT_SUBMODULE_STRATEGY: recursive
DOCKERFILE_BUILD: docker/build/Dockerfile
DOCKERFILE_TEST: docker/test/Dockerfile
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Test reports for Gitlab CI when multiple modules exist
I am trying to setup build scripts for Gitlab CI for a Java/ project with Gradle. The project has three different modules A, B and C, with modules B and C being dependent on the module A.
All three ...
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How to caching the docker images?
I try to improve the performance of my pipeline stages in gitlab cicd. The Gitlab is self hosted and the Runner runs as docker with docker executor. I recognized, that for both jobs in my stages (test,...
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How to test the CI/CD pipeline itself?
I have gitlab CI/CD defined through .gitlab-ci.yml.
It runs different jobs if the pipeline is triggered manually, from a merge request or from a scheduled pipeline.
It accepts a bunch of environment ...
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How can I separate code build from container build for MRs?
I'd really like to optimize our CI builds. Currently every time I push a code change to an MR our gitlab runners a 20-to-40 minute job to build our docker image which is ~8 GB. My understanding is ...
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Excluding tests from repository downloaded by users?
I am currently helping maintain a python code base using GitLab. Recently, I have introduced integration testing using a pipeline in the development branch. Unfortunately, the test directory is quite ...
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Cant access gitlab ci variables from inside python script building with maven
I have a python project which I build using maven. In my .gitlab-ci.yaml file I set some global variables.
variables:
MAVEN_BASE_CLI_OPTS: ""
MAVEN_CLI_OPTS: ${MAVEN_BASE_CLI_OPTS}
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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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