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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Necessity of mirroring git repos for small team considering switching to Azure
Question:
Are there any benefits to mirroring our git repos outside of Azure devops for a small (~7) team of developers who all work in the same office?
Background Information
I'm a developer ...
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After deployment, one Rancher load balanced RESTful app instance returns 404 while other returns results [closed]
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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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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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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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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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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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-...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Trigger a cross project GitLab trigger
I am trying to call a trigger on one GitLab project using a job on another.
Let’s call one A, and the other B. I want a job in A to trigger a job in B.
In A, this is what my .gitlab-ci.yml looks ...
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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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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 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 ...
