gitlab-cicd-runner.md

GitLab CICD playful runner instructions

Project creation

• Create an account at https://gitlab.com

• Create a new empty project

• Add a file named .gitlab-ci.yml

• This complex pipeline to check the system:

test:
    script: echo "Holi!"

• Control your frustration

Runner configuration

• Go to settings -> CI/CD

• Expand the Runners tab

• Disable Enable shared runners for this project

• Click on New project runner

• Select Linux

• Add dind as the tag

• Check Run untagged jobs (very important)

• Press Create runner

• Copy the token to the clipboard

• Go to https://labs.play-with-docker.com and sign in

• Create a new instance

• Type this to define a volume

docker volume create gitlab-runner-config

• Run the CI/CD agent

docker run -d --name gitlab-runner \
  --restart always \
  -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
  -v gitlab-runner-config:/etc/gitlab-runner \
  gitlab/gitlab-runner:latest

• Start the configuration process

docker run --rm -it \
  -v gitlab-runner-config:/etc/gitlab-runner \
  gitlab/gitlab-runner:latest register

• Type https://gitlab.com as the GitLab instance

• Paste the token from the clipboard

Testing the pipeline

• Run again the pipeline

• Big success!