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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Multiple paths with different expiry time in gitlab-ci runners
I'm having issues with parsing a build directory between stages using Gitlab-CI.
Gitlab-CI wipes the created build artifacts between stages which seems weird. I'm trying to store the build artifacts ...
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How to tag source code using gitlabCI
We got gitlab new to our environment and trying to create some CI CD pipelines using gitlab CI. I have got some better progress with running some maven goals, creating pipelines and archiving ...
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How to configure gitlab-runner to run in the same docker host as gitlab?
I have a gitlab instance running in a docker container. Now I would like to setup gitlab-runner on the same host. Both are running:
docker container ls
CONTAINER ID IMAGE ...
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Changing the build intermediate paths for gitlab-runner
I have a server pointed as ab12.xy24.com in which the projects are placed as:
Path-1
/home/ab12/public_html/project1/*
/home/ab12/public_html/project2/*
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/...
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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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Using gitlab-ci to cache maven repository
We have a server running gitlab and gitlab-runners on same machine. I've defined a runner as below
[abc@xyz bin]# gitlab-ci-multi-runner register
Running in system-mode.
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CI/CD for microservices in monorepo on Gitlab
I'm working on a project that consists of several different services in different languages (a React webapp, a Scala backend, some Python stuff etc). I currently have each of these services in ...
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Multiple runners for all projects OR single runner per project
What do we have:
We have a Gitlab EE with multiple projects running on a droplet, next to that we have a runner server for the CI runners. All projects are Docker projects and 4 runners can be busy at ...
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Building a Docker container using Gitlab CI Docker runner
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
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Trigger Jenkins job from Gitlab CI with parameters
There is supposed to be a way to trigger a Jenkins job via GitlabCi, using the respective plugin.
My question is whether there is a way:
a) to trigger a parameterized Jenkins job
b) to pass ...
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What OS should a master node CI virtual machine be?
Say you are developing a new CI/CD system, deploy builds across Linux, Windows and Mac, and have now reached the point of wanting to deploy a master node which hosts your chosen CI tool. How do you ...
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fatal: ambiguous argument 'master': unknown revision or path not in the working tree
when I modified one of my cookbook that I tried to add a cookbook dependency in berks file
cookbook name, '=0.1.0', git: 'ssh://url:xxx/cookbook', tag: '0.0.1'
and then tried to converge it which ...
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Gitlab Runner not running scripts with Windows shell configuration
I have a Gitlab Runner running locally on my windows box. It works fine for the before script section.
my .gitlab-ci.yml follows:
before_script:
- pushd . && uru 233 && popd &&...
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Jenkins Pipeline “Build when a change is pushed to GitLab”
I have a Jenkins declarative pipeline that is ran via a webhook from GitLab whenever a change is pushed to my repo. In Jenkins, I have the following trigger option selected:
Is there a way for me to ...
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Automatic Docker Hub builds from GitLAB, not github
As per title. I would like to configure automated builds on Docker Hub, as specified here.
My build context (the build context is a repository containing a Dockerfile) is hosted in GitLAB.
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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 pull all alternative tags of a Docker image?
I administer a GitLab instance with a build pipeline. All components are encapsulated in Docker images from the official GitLab maintainer.
Whenever I update - usually once a week - I need to check ...
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Problems with integrating Python script in a Bash script Git pre-receive hook [closed]
We have a pre-receive hook script in a bash shell script that enforces commits with messages having the right ticket number in a pre-defined format. We also have a separate python script that can be ...
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What's the practice to perform a releasing with Git?
I'm using GitLab CE with Maven project, and try to follow the Environment branches with GitLab flow and The 11 Rules of GitLab Flow
The step for releasing is as the following: -
feature +--- +-...
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GitLab Runner is using its Docker host's hostname as Git server FQDN/hostname
When using a GitLab Runner with a "docker" executor, the following build error occurs:
Running with gitlab-runner 10.7.0 (7c273476)
on main 80500676
Using Docker executor with image centos:latest .....
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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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GitLab - trigger pipeline to build on specific runner
Scenario
Create a new virtual machine with runner installed
Trigger a pipeline to run (from another project), which runs on this new virtual machine
Do something else, or fail if pipeline above fails ...
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GitLab Pages delivers random content
I am experiencing weird behavior with the Pages feature of GitLab Omnibus package running on an Ubuntu 16.04 virtual machine. Some projects use Pages with Jekyll built by GitLab CI, which has been ...
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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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Where to obtain the token to register a GitLab runner?
I have a GitLab repository.
I want to add a runner to it.
I was able to install it, with the instruction here without Docker (step 3).
Now I have to register it according to the instructions here. In ...
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After deployment, one Rancher load balanced RESTful app instance returns 404 while other returns results
I have setup a CI/CD pipeline which triggers builds, packages, and deploys tasks that execute on Gitlab online whenever a Spring boot RESTful service app is checked in. The three stages and tasks run ...
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Globally configuring Gitlab with Jenkins in docker container environment
I have Jenkins users authenticated by OpenLDAP and also gitlab CE instance authenticated by the same OpenLDAP.
And all the three are running in three different docker containers in the same network.
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Jenkins shows the job as failed if there is nothing to commit to gitlab
I have been using one Jenkins job, that will pull repository from gitlab.
Then it will modify the files and push it into gitlab (only if any user added any new files/modify contents in gitlab). ...
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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 Runner command line doesn't care about --parameters
I'm trying to write a windows batch file to automate the gitlab runner registration :
SET /p token=Token ?:
gitlab-runner register --locked false --run-untagged true --tag-list java --name foo --...
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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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Git Workflow with User Acceptance and Staging Environments
I'm trying to streamline/standardize a git workflow in my workplace. The current delopment process is as follows:
Pull 'development' branch
Write code and commit and push to 'development' branch
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Reflect GitLab repo changes in VSTS code
I have a repository in GitLab that is used by our development team. On the other hand, there is a VSTS setup (at xyz.visualstudio.com) that we use to manage our scrum board.
As of today, we have to ...
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Jenkins Testing PR's - allowing broken builds
I have a very large codebase that currently takes ~30 minutes to build via Jenkins. It's connected to our Source control/review system (Let's just say GitHub for now) so that every PR automatically ...
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Rancher & gitlab-runner - is there a way to get the gitlab-runner to tell Rancher to start the CI test environment instead?
I’ve got an AWS gitlab instance successfully doing CI with gitlab-runners running under vagrant on my local dev machine. I’d like to move the runners off my machine and onto a standalone server...
I’...
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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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How to add status flags or manual steps to CI/CD process with GitLab Pipelines
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 use shared runner (dind) for build stage and runner with shell executor on my server for deploy stage?
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 to ensure testing execution order with GitLab CI?
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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Should I build my own pipeline or use GitLab for Kubernetes?
My company is moving from an architecture of "many projects on a single webserver" to a Kubernetes cluster with multiple different hosted web applications in a single cluster.
In order to make ...
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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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Mastering CI infrastructure changes with GitLab
With Bamboo, a best practice for infrastructure management of agents seems to be using Docker: any time you need a new version of compiler or test tool, the path to deploy a modified version of an ...
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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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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 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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Chef resource to register gitlab runner automatically
We would like to automate installation of gitlab runner using chef. we are successful with it. Now, the Issue is regarding registering gitlab runner with chef resource.
we have gone through chef ...
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Jenkins Pipeline GitLab API Credentials Management
I have a Jenkins pipeline that executes a build whenever a change is pushed to the appropriate branch. Jenkins uses an API token to authenticate with the GitLab server and checkout the repository. ...
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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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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 ...
