I really dont know if this is a simple (must be), common or complex task.
I have a buildspec.yml file in my codebuild project, and i am trying to append the version written in package.json file to the output artifact.
I have already seen a lot of tutorials that teach how to append the date (not really useful to me), and others that tell me to execute a version.sh file with this
echo $(sed -nr 's/^\s*"version": "([0-9]{1,}.[0-9]{1,}.*)",$/\1/p' package.json)
and set it in a variable (it doesn't work).
i'm ending up with a build folder called: "my-project-$(version.sh)"
codebuild environment uses ubuntu and nodejs
Update (solved):
my version.sh file:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
echo $(sed -nr 's/^\s*\"version": "([0-9]{1,}\.[0-9]{1,}.*)",$/\1/p' package.json)
Then, i just found out 2 things:
Allow access to your version.sh file:
git update-index --add --chmod=+x version.sh
Declare a variable in any phase in buildspec, i dit in in build phase (just to make sure repository is already copied in environment)
TAGG=$($CODEBUILD_SRC_DIR/version.sh)
then reference it in artifact versioned name:
artifacts:
files:
- '**/*'
name: workover-frontend-$TAG
As result, my build artifact's name: myproject-1.0.0
In my case this script do not want to fetch data from package.json. On my local machine it working great but on AWS doesn't. I had to use chmod in different way, because i got message that i don't have right permissions. My buildspec:
version: 0.2
env:
variables:
latestTag: ""
phases:
pre_build:
commands:
- "echo sed version"
- sed --version
build:
commands:
- chmod +x version.sh
- latestTag=$($CODEBUILD_SRC_DIR/version.sh)
- "echo $latestTag"
artifacts:
files:
- '**/*'
discard-paths: yes
And results in console:
CodeBuild
I also have to mark that when i paste only for example echo 222 into version.sh file i got right answer in CodeBuild console.
We're using a aws/codebuild/standard:5.0 codebuild image to build our own docker images. I have a buildspec that calls docker build against our Dockerfile and push to ECR. The Dockerfile uses Microsoft dotnet base images to call dotnet pubish to build our binaries. This all works fine.
We then added a build stage to our Dockerfile to run unit tests (using dotnet test) and we followed the "FROM scratch" advice combined with docker build --output to try and pull unit test results files out of the multi-stage target:
docker build --target export-test-results -f ./Dockerfile --output type=local,dest=out .
This works fine locally (an out dir is created containing the files), but when I run this in Codebuild, I cannot find where the output may be (the command succeeds - but I've no idea where it's going). I've added ls commands everywhere, and cannot locate the out dir, so of course my artifacts step has nothing to archive.
Question is: where is the output being created inside the CodeBuild instance?
My (abbreviated) Dockerfile
ARG VERSION=3.1-alpine3.13
FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/aspnet:$VERSION AS base
WORKDIR /usr/local/bin
FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/sdk:$VERSION AS source
#Using pattern here to bypass need for recursive copy from local src folder: https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/15858#issuecomment-614157331
WORKDIR /usr/local
COPY . ./src
RUN mkdir ./proj && \
cd ./src && \
find . -type f -a \( -iname "*.sln" -o -iname "*.csproj" -o -iname "*.dcproj" \) -exec cp --parents "{}" ../proj/ \;
FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/sdk:$VERSION AS projectfiles
# Copy only the project files with correct directory structure
# then restore packages - this will mean that "restore" will be saved in a layer of its own
COPY --from=source /usr/local/proj /usr/local/src
FROM projectfiles AS restore
WORKDIR /usr/local/src/Postie
RUN dotnet restore --verbosity minimal -s https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json Postie.sln
FROM restore AS unittests
#Copy all the source files
COPY --from=source /usr/local/src /usr/local/src
RUN cd Postie.Domain.UnitTests && \
dotnet test --no-restore --logger:nunit --verbosity normal || true
FROM scratch as export-test-results
COPY --from=unittests /usr/local/src/Postie/Postie.Domain.UnitTests/TestResults/TestResults.xml ./Postie.Domain.UnitTests.TestResults.xml
My (abbreviated) Buildspec:
version: 0.2
phases:
pre_build:
commands:
- echo Logging in to Amazon ECR...
- aws ecr get-login-password | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin $DOCKER_REGISTRY_SERVER
build:
commands:
- export IMAGE_TAG=:$(echo $CODEBUILD_RESOLVED_SOURCE_VERSION | cut -c 1-7).$CODEBUILD_BUILD_NUMBER
- export JENKINS_TAG=:$(echo $JENKINS_VERSION_NUMBER | tr '+' '-')
- echo Build started on `date` with version $IMAGE_TAG
- cd ./Src/
- echo Testing the Docker image...
#see the following for why we use the --output option
#https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/build/#custom-build-outputs
- docker build --target export-test-results -t ${DOCKER_REGISTRY_SERVER}/postie.api${IMAGE_TAG} -f ./Postie/Postie.Api/Dockerfile --output type=local,dest=out .
artifacts:
files:
- '**/*'
name: builds/$JENKINS_VERSION_NUMBER/artifacts
(I should note that the "artifacts" step above is actually archiving my entire source tree to S3 so that I can prove that the upload is working and also so that I can try to find the "out" dir - but it's not to be found)
I know this is old, but just in case anyone else stumbles across this one, you need to add the Docker Buildkit variable to the CodeBuild environment, otherwise the files will not get exported.
version: 0.2
... etc
phases:
build:
commands:
... etc
- echo Testing the Docker image...
- export DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1
- docker build --target export-test-results ... etc
... etc
If you want to display more output along with this you can also add
- export BUILDKIT_PROGRESS=plain
- export PROGRESS_NO_TRUNC=1
under the buildkit variable.
I have setup drone.io locally and created a .drone.yml for CI build. But I found drone removes the docker container after finishing the build. Whether it support reusing the docker container? I am working on gradle project and the initial build takes a long time to download java dependencies.
UPDATE1
I used below command to set the admin user on running drone-server container.
docker run -d \
-e DRONE_GITHUB=true \
-e DRONE_GITHUB_CLIENT="xxxx" \
-e DRONE_GITHUB_SECRET="xxxx" \
-e DRONE_SECRET="xxxx" \
-e DRONE_OPEN=true \
-e DRONE_DATABASE_DRIVER=mysql \
-e DRONE_DATABASE_DATASOURCE="root:root#tcp(mysql:3306)/drone?parseTime=true" \
-e DRONE_ADMIN="joeyzhao0113" \
--restart=always \
--name=drone-server \
--link=mysql \
drone/drone:0.5
After doing this, I use the user joeyzhao0113 to login drone server but failed to enable the Trusted flag on the setting page. The popup message dialog shows setting successfully see below screenshot. But the flag keep showing disabled always.
No, it is not possible to re-use a Docker container for your Drone build. Build containers are ephemeral and are destroyed at the end of every build.
That being said, it doesn't mean your problem cannot be solved.
I think a better way to phrase this question would be "how do I prevent my builds from having to re-download dependencies"? There are two solutions to this problem.
Option 1, Cache Plugin
The first, recommended solution, is to use a plugin to cache and restore your dependencies. Cache plugins such as the volume cache and s3 cache are community contributed plugins.
pipeline:
# restores the cache from a local volume
restore-cache:
image: drillster/drone-volume-cache
restore: true
mount: [ /drone/.gradle, /drone/.m2 ]
volumes:
- /tmp/cache:/cache
build:
image: maven
environment:
- M2_HOME=/drone/.m2
- MAVEN_HOME=/drone/.m2
- GRADLE_USER_HOME=/drone/.gradle
commands:
- mvn install
- mvn package
# rebuild the cache in case new dependencies were
# downloaded during your build
rebuild-cache:
image: drillster/drone-volume-cache
rebuild: true
mount: [ /drone/.gradle, /drone/.m2 ]
volumes:
- /tmp/cache:/cache
Option 2, Custom Image
The second solution is to create a Docker image with your dependencies, publish to DockerHub, and use this as your build image in your .drone.yml file.
pipeline:
build:
image: some-image-with-all-my-dependencies
commands:
- mvn package
I've been working on setting up an automated RPM build and I'd like to perform a simple test on the SPEC file before proceeding with any build steps. The problem I am having is that the job always seems to jump to the deploy stage. Here is the relevant snippet from my .gitlab-ci.yml:
stages:
- test
- build
- deploy
job1:
stage: test
script:
# Test the SPEC file
- su - newbuild -c "rpmbuild --nobuild -vv ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/package.SPEC"
stage: build
script:
# Install our required packages
- yum -y install openssl-devel freetype-devel fontconfig-devel libicu-devel sqlite-devel libpng-devel libjpeg-devel ruby
# Initialize the submodules to build
- git submodule update --init
# build the RPM
- su - newbuild -c "rpmbuild -ba --target=`uname -m` -vv ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/package.SPEC"
stage: deploy
script:
# move the RPM/SRPM
- mkdir -pv $BUILD_DIR/$RELEASEVER/{SRPMS,x86_64}
- 'for f in $WORK_DIR/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/*; do cp -v "$f" $BUILD_DIR/$RELEASEVER/x86_64; done'
- 'for f in $WORK_DIR/rpmbuild/SRPMS/*; do cp -v "$f" $BUILD_DIR/$RELEASEVER/SRPMS; done'
# create the repo
- createrepo -dvp $BUILD_DIR/$RELEASEVER
# update latest
- 'if [ $CI_BUILD_REF_NAME == "master" ]; then rm $PROJECT_DIR/latest; ln -sv $(basename $BUILD_DIR) $PROJECT_DIR/latest; fi'
- 'if [ $CI_BUILD_REF_NAME == "devel" ]; then rm $PROJECT_DIR/latest-dev; ln -sv $(basename $BUILD_DIR) $PROJECT_DIR/latest-dev; fi'
tags:
- repos
I've not found any questions or online documentation to properly explain this to me so any help is appreciated!
You have all stages in one job which does not work. You need to split it up into individual jobs for the three different stages.
Quote from the documentation:
First all jobs of build are executed in parallel.
If all jobs of build succeeds, the test jobs are executed in parallel.
If all jobs of test succeeds, the deploy jobs are executed in parallel.
If all jobs of deploy succeeds, the commit is marked as success.
If any of the previous jobs fails, the commit is marked as failed and no jobs of further stage are executed.
Something like this should work:
stages:
- test
- build
- deploy
do_things_on_stage_test:
script:
- do things
stage: test
do_things_on_stage_build:
script:
- do things
stage: build
do_things_on_stage_deploy:
script:
- do things
stage: deploy
I think you assume that the stages are build on top of each other, which is not the case. If one of your stages needs something like pre-installed packages, you have to add a before_script directive. Think of the stages as in: test-if-build-succeeds, test-if-depoy-succeeds, etc.
If a GitLab project is configured on GitLab CI, is there a way to run the build locally?
I don't want to turn my laptop into a build "runner", I just want to take advantage of Docker and .gitlab-ci.yml to run tests locally (i.e. it's all pre-configured). Another advantage of that is that I'm sure that I'm using the same environment locally and on CI.
Here is an example of how to run Travis builds locally using Docker, I'm looking for something similar with GitLab.
Since a few months ago this is possible using gitlab-runner:
gitlab-runner exec docker my-job-name
Note that you need both docker and gitlab-runner installed on your computer to get this working.
You also need the image key defined in your .gitlab-ci.yml file. Otherwise won't work.
Here's the line I currently use for testing locally using gitlab-runner:
gitlab-runner exec docker test --docker-volumes "/home/elboletaire/.ssh/id_rsa:/root/.ssh/id_rsa:ro"
Note: You can avoid adding a --docker-volumes with your key setting it by default in /etc/gitlab-runner/config.toml. See the official documentation for more details. Also, use gitlab-runner exec docker --help to see all docker-based runner options (like variables, volumes, networks, etc.).
Due to the confusion in the comments, I paste here the gitlab-runner --help result, so you can see that gitlab-runner can make builds locally:
gitlab-runner --help
NAME:
gitlab-runner - a GitLab Runner
USAGE:
gitlab-runner [global options] command [command options] [arguments...]
VERSION:
1.1.0~beta.135.g24365ee (24365ee)
AUTHOR(S):
Kamil Trzciński <ayufan#ayufan.eu>
COMMANDS:
exec execute a build locally
[...]
GLOBAL OPTIONS:
--debug debug mode [$DEBUG]
[...]
As you can see, the exec command is to execute a build locally.
Even though there was an issue to deprecate the current gitlab-runner exec behavior, it ended up being reconsidered and a new version with greater features will replace the current exec functionality.
Note that this process is to use your own machine to run the tests using docker containers. This is not to define custom runners. To do so, just go to your repo's CI/CD settings and read the documentation there. If you wanna ensure your runner is executed instead of one from gitlab.com, add a custom and unique tag to your runner, ensure it only runs tagged jobs and tag all the jobs you want your runner to be responsible of.
I use this docker-based approach:
Edit: 2022-10
docker run --entrypoint bash --rm -w $PWD -v $PWD:$PWD -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock gitlab/gitlab-runner:latest -c 'git config --global --add safe.directory "*";gitlab-runner exec docker test'
For all git versions > 2.35.2. You must add safe.directory within the container to avoid fatal: detected dubious ownership in repository at.... This also true for patched git versions < 2.35.2. The old command will not work anymore.
Details
0. Create a git repo to test this answer
mkdir my-git-project
cd my-git-project
git init
git commit --allow-empty -m"Initialize repo to showcase gitlab-runner locally."
1. Go to your git directory
cd my-git-project
2. Create a .gitlab-ci.yml
Example .gitlab-ci.yml
image: alpine
test:
script:
- echo "Hello Gitlab-Runner"
3. Create a docker container with your project dir mounted
docker run -d \
--name gitlab-runner \
--restart always \
-v $PWD:$PWD \
-v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
gitlab/gitlab-runner:latest
(-d) run container in background and print container ID
(--restart always) or not?
(-v $PWD:$PWD) Mount current directory into the current directory of the container - Note: On Windows you could bind your dir to a fixed location, e.g. -v ${PWD}:/opt/myapp. Also $PWD will only work at powershell not at cmd
(-v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock) This gives the container access to the docker socket of the host so it can start "sibling containers" (e.g. Alpine).
(gitlab/gitlab-runner:latest) Just the latest available image from dockerhub.
4. Execute with
Avoid fatal: detected dubious ownership in repository at... More info
docker exec -it -w $PWD gitlab-runner git config --global --add safe.directory "*"
Actual execution
docker exec -it -w $PWD gitlab-runner gitlab-runner exec docker test
# ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
# | | | | | |
# (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f)
(a) Working dir within the container. Note: On Windows you could use a fixed location, e.g. /opt/myapp.
(b) Name of the docker container
(c) Execute the command "gitlab-runner" within the docker container
(d)(e)(f) run gitlab-runner with "docker executer" and run a job named "test"
5. Prints
...
Executing "step_script" stage of the job script
$ echo "Hello Gitlab-Runner"
Hello Gitlab-Runner
Job succeeded
...
Note: The runner will only work on the commited state of your code base. Uncommited changes will be ignored. Exception: The .gitlab-ci.yml itself does not have be commited to be taken into account.
Note: There are some limitations running locally. Have a look at limitations of gitlab runner locally.
I'm currently working on making a gitlab runner that works locally.
Still in the early phases, but eventually it will become very relevant.
It doesn't seem like gitlab want/have time to make this, so here you go.
https://github.com/firecow/gitlab-runner-local
If you are running Gitlab using the docker image there: https://hub.docker.com/r/gitlab/gitlab-ce, it's possible to run pipelines by exposing the local docker.sock with a volume option: -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock. Adding this option to the Gitlab container will allow your workers to access to the docker instance on the host.
The GitLab runner appears to not work on Windows yet and there is an open issue to resolve this.
So, in the meantime I am moving my script code out to a bash script, which I can easily map to a docker container running locally and execute.
In this case I want to build a docker container in my job, so I create a script 'build':
#!/bin/bash
docker build --pull -t myimage:myversion .
in my .gitlab-ci.yaml I execute the script:
image: docker:latest
services:
- docker:dind
before_script:
- apk add bash
build:
stage: build
script:
- chmod 755 build
- build
To run the script locally using powershell I can start the required image and map the volume with the source files:
$containerId = docker run --privileged -d -v ${PWD}:/src docker:dind
install bash if not present:
docker exec $containerId apk add bash
Set permissions on the bash script:
docker exec -it $containerId chmod 755 /src/build
Execute the script:
docker exec -it --workdir /src $containerId bash -c 'build'
Then stop the container:
docker stop $containerId
And finally clean up the container:
docker container rm $containerId
Another approach is to have a local build tool that is installed on your pc and your server at the same time.
So basically, your .gitlab-ci.yml will basically call your preferred build tool.
Here an example .gitlab-ci.yml that i use with nuke.build:
stages:
- build
- test
- pack
variables:
TERM: "xterm" # Use Unix ASCII color codes on Nuke
before_script:
- CHCP 65001 # Set correct code page to avoid charset issues
.job_template: &job_definition
except:
- tags
build:
<<: *job_definition
stage: build
script:
- "./build.ps1"
test:
<<: *job_definition
stage: test
script:
- "./build.ps1 test"
variables:
GIT_CHECKOUT: "false"
pack:
<<: *job_definition
stage: pack
script:
- "./build.ps1 pack"
variables:
GIT_CHECKOUT: "false"
only:
- master
artifacts:
paths:
- output/
And in nuke.build i've defined 3 targets named like the 3 stages (build, test, pack)
In this way you have a reproducible setup (all other things are configured with your build tool) and you can test directly the different targets of your build tool.
(i can call .\build.ps1 , .\build.ps1 test and .\build.ps1 pack when i want)
I am on Windows using VSCode with WSL
I didn't want to register my work PC as a runner so instead I'm running my yaml stages locally to test them out before I upload them
$ sudo apt-get install gitlab-runner
$ gitlab-runner exec shell build
yaml
image: node:10.19.0 # https://hub.docker.com/_/node/
# image: node:latest
cache:
# untracked: true
key: project-name
# key: ${CI_COMMIT_REF_SLUG} # per branch
# key:
# files:
# - package-lock.json # only update cache when this file changes (not working) #jkr
paths:
- .npm/
- node_modules
- build
stages:
- prepare # prepares builds, makes build needed for testing
- test # uses test:build specifically #jkr
- build
- deploy
# before_install:
before_script:
- npm ci --cache .npm --prefer-offline
prepare:
stage: prepare
needs: []
script:
- npm install
test:
stage: test
needs: [prepare]
except:
- schedules
tags:
- linux
script:
- npm run build:dev
- npm run test:cicd-deps
- npm run test:cicd # runs puppeteer tests #jkr
artifacts:
reports:
junit: junit.xml
paths:
- coverage/
build-staging:
stage: build
needs: [prepare]
only:
- schedules
before_script:
- apt-get update && apt-get install -y zip
script:
- npm run build:stage
- zip -r build.zip build
# cache:
# paths:
# - build
# <<: *global_cache
# policy: push
artifacts:
paths:
- build.zip
deploy-dev:
stage: deploy
needs: [build-staging]
tags: [linux]
only:
- schedules
# # - branches#gitlab-org/gitlab
before_script:
- apt-get update && apt-get install -y lftp
script:
# temporarily using 'verify-certificate no'
# for more on verify-certificate #jkr: https://www.versatilewebsolutions.com/blog/2014/04/lftp-ftps-and-certificate-verification.html
# variables do not work with 'single quotes' unless they are "'surrounded by doubles'"
- lftp -e "set ssl:verify-certificate no; open mediajackagency.com; user $LFTP_USERNAME $LFTP_PASSWORD; mirror --reverse --verbose build/ /var/www/domains/dev/clients/client/project/build/; bye"
# environment:
# name: staging
# url: http://dev.mediajackagency.com/clients/client/build
# # url: https://stg2.client.co
when: manual
allow_failure: true
build-production:
stage: build
needs: [prepare]
only:
- schedules
before_script:
- apt-get update && apt-get install -y zip
script:
- npm run build
- zip -r build.zip build
# cache:
# paths:
# - build
# <<: *global_cache
# policy: push
artifacts:
paths:
- build.zip
deploy-client:
stage: deploy
needs: [build-production]
tags: [linux]
only:
- schedules
# - master
before_script:
- apt-get update && apt-get install -y lftp
script:
- sh deploy-prod
environment:
name: production
url: http://www.client.co
when: manual
allow_failure: true
The idea is to keep check commands outside of .gitlab-ci.yml. I use Makefile to run something like make check and my .gitlab-ci.yml runs the same make commands that I use locally to check various things before committing.
This way you'll have one place with all/most of your commands (Makefile) and .gitlab-ci.yml will have only CI-related stuff.
I have written a tool to run all GitLab-CI job locally without have to commit or push, simply with the command ci-toolbox my_job_name.
The URL of the project : https://gitlab.com/mbedsys/citbx4gitlab
Years ago I build this simple solution with Makefile and docker-compose to run the gitlab runner in docker, you can use it to execute jobs locally as well and should work on all systems where docker works:
https://gitlab.com/1oglop1/gitlab-runner-docker
There are few things to change in the docker-compose.override.yaml
version: "3"
services:
runner:
working_dir: <your project dir>
environment:
- REGISTRATION_TOKEN=<token if you want to register>
volumes:
- "<your project dir>:<your project dir>"
Then inside your project you can execute it the same way as mentioned in other answers:
docker exec -it -w $PWD runner gitlab-runner exec <commands>..
I recommend using gitlab-ci-local
https://github.com/firecow/gitlab-ci-local
It's able to run specific jobs as well.
It's a very cool project and I have used it to run simple pipelines on my laptop.