How to run a script on a service container in Gitlab CI - gitlab-ci

I'm doing e2e testing using Cypress in Gitlab CI. I imported database and backend as services. Now I need to run an npm script on backend to populate the db. How do I do that?
.docker: &docker
tags:
- docker
t:test-server-mr:
stage: test
allow_failure: true
before_script:
- echo "Skipping global before script"
image: node:12.16.1-stretch
services:
- name: registry.gitlab.com/registryname/backend/db:latest
alias: database
- name: registry.gitlab.com/registryname/backend/master
alias: backend
script:
- npm install
- npm run ci
<<: [*docker]

You can add another entry under the script property:
script:
- npm install
- npm run ci
- npm run init_my_db

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In Gitlab CI, cancel pipeline on master when I push a tag

I have this .gitlab-ci.yml file:
image: node:latest
stages:
- build
- test
- publish
cache:
key:
files:
- package.json
- package-lock.json
paths:
- node_modules
build:
stage: build
script:
- echo -e "//my.private.repo.com/:_authToken=${NPM_TOKEN}\n$(cat .npmrc)">.npmrc
- npm install
- npm run build
artifacts:
paths:
- node_modules
- .npmrc
test:
stage: test
script:
- npm test
publish:
stage: publish
script:
- npm publish
only:
- tags
With this configuration, when I push a simple commit, everything is ok : build + test as expected.
But, when I push tag (created here with npm version, two pipeline are created : 1 for the commit, and 1 for the tag. So, build and tests are executed twice.
What can I do to prevent this behavior, and have the tag pipeline to "cancel" the commit pipeline
You could have different jobs for when you push a simple commit or tag, and use only and except keywords to differentiate between the cases, otherwise this is the correct behaviour considered by GitLab. You can see the discussion around a closed issue here.

Vue Cypress and Gitlab CI/CD

I am currently trying to get my E2E tests running on Gitlab with their CI/CD platform.
My issue at the moment is that I cannot both my dev server and cypress to run at the same time so that the E2E tests can run.
Here is my current .gitlab-ci.yml file:
image: node
variables:
npm_config_cache: "$CI_PROJECT_DIR/.npm"
CYPRESS_CACHE_FOLDER: "$CI_PROJECT_DIR/cache/Cypress"
cache:
key: ${CI_COMMIT_REF_SLUG}
paths:
- .npm
- cache/Cypress
- node_modules
stages:
- setup
- test
setup:
stage: setup
image: cypress/base:10
script:
- npm ci
# check Cypress binary path and cached versions
# useful to make sure we are not carrying around old versions
- npx cypress cache path
- npx cypress cache list
cypress:
stage: test
image: cypress/base:10
script:
# I need to start a dev server here in the background
- cypress run --record --key <my_key> --parallel
artifacts:
when: always
paths:
- cypress/videos/**/*.mp4
- cypress/screenshots/**/*.png
expire_in: 7 day
In Cypress's official GitHub page, there is an example .gitlab-ci.yml for running Cypress in continuous integration.
It uses command npm run start:ci & for running dev server in the background.
So, your .gitlab-ci.yml might look like this:
⋮
cypress:
image: cypress/base:10
stage: test
script:
- npm run start:ci & # start the server in the background
- cypress run --record --key <my_key> --parallel
⋮
Or use this utility to start the server, wait for an URL to respond, then run tests and shut down the server https://github.com/bahmutov/start-server-and-test

How to do a single build with GitLab for Vue application with multiple .env files

I have a simple .gitlab-ci.yml file that builds my Vue application. I build once and then deploy the dist folder to my various environments:
stages:
- build
- deploy_dev
- deploy_stg
- deploy_prd
build:
image: node:latest # Pull Node image
stage: build
script:
- npm install -g #vue/cli#latest
- npm install
- npm run build
artifacts:
expire_in: 2 weeks
paths:
- dist/
deploy_to_dev:
image: python:latest
stage: deploy_dev
dependencies:
- build
only:
- master # Only deply master branch automatically to Dev
script:
- export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=$DEV_AWS_ACCESS_ID
- export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=$DEV_AWS_ACCESS_KEY
- pip install awscli # Install AWS CLI
- aws s3 sync ./dist s3://$DEV_BUCKET
This all works great, however, I've now introduced some config and build my app differently per environment - for 3 environments I have 3 different build commands. Eg, I have an .env.production so for a production build my command becomes:
npm run build -- --mode production
Is there any way to get around having different builds for each environment but still using the .env files based on a GitLab variable?
You should split your build job to have one per environment and use the environment concept to have something like that for dev and production envs :
.build_template: &build_template
image: node:latest # Pull Node image
script:
- npm install -g #vue/cli#latest
- npm install
- npm run build -- --mode $CI_ENVIRONMENT_NAME
build_dev:
stage: build_dev
<<: *build_template
environment:
name: dev
build_prod:
stage: build_prod
<<: *build_template
environment:
name: production
In this snippet, I used anchors to avoid duplicate lines.

Run sequentially jobs by environment using gitlab-ci

I'm looking for a solution to my problem. I want to run sequentially jobs by environment using gitlab-ci.
Build dev (manual launch) -----> create docker image dev (automatic if dev build works)
Build staging (manual launch) ------> create docker image staging (automatic if staging build works)
...
If the dev build fails, I don't want to create the docker image dev.
How can I do this ? Morever, is it possible to do a for loop to build each environment ?
Here what I currently do :
stages:
- build
- docker-image
dev:build:
stage: build
script:
- npm install
- npm run build:development
when: manual
staging:build:
stage: build
script:
- npm install
- npm run build:staging
when: manual
demo:build:
stage: build
script:
- npm install
- npm run build:demo
when: manual
dev:image:
stage: docker-image
script:
- docker build -t registry/project:dev --build-arg environment=development .
#- docker push registry/project:dev
when: on_success
staging:image:
stage: docker-image
script:
- docker build -t registry/project:staging --build-arg environment=staging .
#- docker push registry/project:staging
when: manual
demo:image:
stage: docker-image
script:
- docker build -t registry/project:demo --build-arg environment=demo .
#- docker push registry/project:demo
when: manual
Thank you very much
You should disallow failure for the manual jobs so the pipeline will not continue any further on the unsuccessful build.
Manual jobs are allowed to fail by default.
To disallow failure:
dev:build:
stage: build
script:
- npm install
- npm run build:development
when: manual
allow_failure: false
Note:
when: on_success
on your dev:image job is either wrong syntax or does nothing.

Vue.js application does not run on Gitlab pages

I built a Vue.js Vuex user interface. It works perfectly (on my laptop). I want to deploy it on Gitlab pages.
I used the file described here (except that I upgraded the Node.js version):
build site:
image: node:10.8
stage: build
script:
- npm install --progress=false
- npm run build
artifacts:
expire_in: 1 week
paths:
- dist
unit test:
image: node:10.8
stage: test
script:
- npm install --progress=false
- npm run unit
deploy:
image: alpine
stage: deploy
script:
- apk add --no-cache rsync openssh
- mkdir -p ~/.ssh
- echo "$SSH_PRIVATE_KEY" >> ~/.ssh/id_dsa
- chmod 600 ~/.ssh/id_dsa
- echo -e "Host *\n\tStrictHostKeyChecking no\n\n" > ~/.ssh/config
- rsync -rav --delete dist/ user#server.com:/your/project/path/
The job is marked as run successfully on the pipeline. However when I click on the pages URL I get a 404 HTTP error code.
What am I missing?
I was facing a similar issue when I was trying to deploy my Vue.js application to Gitlab pages. After weeks of trial and error, I have got it to work.
Seeing your above script your building the app, unit testing it and trying to deploy it to an external server. If you need it in Gitlab pages as well you have to use the pages job.
Here is my pages job for deploying a vue.js app to Gitlab pages:
pages:
image: node:latest
stage: deploy
script:
- npm install --progress=false
- npm run build
- rm -rf public
- mkdir public
- cp -r dist/* public
artifacts:
expire_in: 1 week
paths:
- public
only:
- master
Hope this is what you're looking for.
You can deploy without the pipeline. In order for this to work you have to first build your application for production. If you have used Vue cli this is done by invoking the build command. ex. npm run build
This will generate a dist folder where your assets are. This is what you have to push in your repository. For example, look at my repository.
https://github.com/DanijelH/danijelh.github.io
And this is the page
https://danijelh.github.io/