I have a simple pipeline, comparable to this one:
image: docker:20
variables:
GIT_STRATEGY: clone
stages:
- Building - Frontend
- Building - Backend
include:
- local: /.ci/extensions/ci-variables.yml
- local: /.ci/extensions/docker-login.yml
Build Management:
stage: Building - Frontend
image: node:14-buster
script:
# Install needed dependencies for building
- apt-get update
- apt-get -y upgrade
- apt-get install -y build-essential
- yarn global add #quasar/cli
- yarn global add #vue/cli
# Install required modules
- cd ${CI_PROJECT_DIR}/resources/js/management
- npm ci --cache .npm --prefer-offline
# Build project
- npm run build
# Create archive
- tar czf ${CI_PROJECT_DIR}/dist-resources-js-management.tar.gz *
cache:
policy: pull-push
key:
files:
- ./resources/js/management/package-lock.json
paths:
- ./resources/js/management/.npm/
artifacts:
paths:
- dist-resources-js-management.tar.gz
Build Docker:
stage: Building - Backend
needs: [Build Management, Build Administration]
dependencies:
- Build Management
- Build Administration
variables:
CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE_COMMIT_SHA: !reference [.ci-variables, variables, CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE_COMMIT_SHA]
CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE_REF_NAME: !reference [.ci-variables, variables, CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE_REF_NAME]
before_script:
- !reference [.docker-login, before_script]
script:
- mkdir -p {CI_PROJECT_DIR}/public/static/management
- tar xzf ${CI_PROJECT_DIR}/dist-resources-js-management.tar.gz --directory ${CI_PROJECT_DIR}/public/static/management
- docker build
--pull
--label "org.opencontainers.image.title=$CI_PROJECT_TITLE"
--label "org.opencontainers.image.url=$CI_PROJECT_URL"
--label "org.opencontainers.image.created=$CI_JOB_STARTED_AT"
--label "org.opencontainers.image.revision=$CI_COMMIT_SHA"
--label "org.opencontainers.image.version=$CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME"
--tag "$CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE_COMMIT_SHA"
-f .build/Dockerfile
.
I now want the first job to be executed under the following conditions:
Something has changed in the directory ${CI_PROJECT_DIR}/resources/js/management
This job has not yet created an artifact.
The last job should therefore always be able to access an artifact. If nothing has changed in the directory, it does not have to be created anew each time. If it did not exist before, it must of course be created.
Is there a way to map this in the GitLab Ci?
If I currently specify the dependencies and then work with only:changes: for the first job, GitLab complains if the job is not executed. Likewise with needs:.
I'm currently evaluating Selenium in combination with GitLab CI as a testing tool for our website. This is my current .gitlab-ci.yml:
variables:
GIT_STRATEGY: clone
GIT_DEPTH: 0
stages:
- tests
test:
stage: tests
image: node:latest
tags:
- linux
before_script:
- apt-get update
- apt-get install -y chromium
- npm install -g selenium-side-runner
- npm install -g chromedriver
script:
- selenium-side-runner My-UI-Test.side
I'm getting the following error:
FAIL ./DefaultSuite.test.js
● Test suite failed to run
WebDriverError: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally.
(unknown error: DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist)
(The process started from chrome location /usr/bin/chromium is no longer running, so ChromeDriver is assuming that Chrome has crashed.)
at Object.throwDecodedError (../../../../../../usr/local/lib/node_modules/selenium-side-runner/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/error.js:550:15)
at parseHttpResponse (../../../../../../usr/local/lib/node_modules/selenium-side-runner/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/http.js:560:13)
at Executor.execute (../../../../../../usr/local/lib/node_modules/selenium-side-runner/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/http.js:486:26)
I've searched for the error message DevToolsActivePort file doesn't exist and it seems that Chrome doesn't like to be run with root privileges. A lot of answers suggest using the --no-sandbox or --disable-dev-shm-usage flags. But those are Chrome flags, and since I'm not calling Chrome directly, I can't use them. The website in question is also deployed from a different project, so I have no code to work with. The only files I can change are My-UI-Test.side and .side.yaml.
I have a separate project for my e2e tests, into which I've added a Dockerfile, my selenium .side file, as well as a config file .side.conf. This project uses the gitlab docker registry to upload the project as an image, that can be loaded directly into the gitlab-ci.
Here are my files for the e2e test project:
package.json
...
"scripts": {
"test": "selenium-side-runner test.side"
},
...
"dependencies": {
"selenium-side-runner": "^3.17.0",
"chromedriver": "^101.0.0"
}
These are the options that I am using, you might want to adjust a few things here and there. The capabilities are pretty much what you want, though.
I've also added the baseUrl key to this file instead of directly into the package.json, because I use the same image for several environments with changing URLs, that I'm replacing in my before_script whenever needed. (I left this out below, as your use case probably differs)
.side.yml
capabilities:
browserName: "chrome"
goog:chromeOptions:
binary: /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable
args:
- no-sandbox
- disable-dev-shm-usage
- headless
- nogpu
output-directory: results
output-format: junit
baseUrl: <baseURL>
The Dockerfile might include a few useless dependencies, you can likely remove a lot of them. Many of those are just copied over from my puppeteer Dockerfile, as they are using the google-chrome-stable binary very similarly. Downloading the fonts with the google-chrome-stable binary might not be needed in your case as well. So just adjust it to your needs.
Dockerfile
FROM node:14
RUN apt update
RUN apt install -y \
rsync \
grsync \
gnupg \
ca-certificates \
fonts-liberation \
libappindicator3-1 \
libasound2 \
libatk-bridge2.0-0 \
libatk1.0-0 \
libc6 \
libcairo2 \
libcups2 \
libdbus-1-3 \
libexpat1 \
libfontconfig1 \
libgbm1 \
libgcc1 \
libglib2.0-0 \
libgtk-3-0 \
libnspr4 \
libnss3 \
libpango-1.0-0 \
libpangocairo-1.0-0 \
libstdc++6 \
libx11-6 \
libx11-xcb1 \
libxcb1 \
libxcomposite1 \
libxcursor1 \
libxdamage1 \
libxext6 \
libxfixes3 \
libxi6 \
libxrandr2 \
libxrender1 \
libxss1 \
libxtst6 \
lsb-release \
wget \
xdg-utils
RUN apt-get update \
&& apt-get install -y wget gnupg \
&& wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | apt-key add - \
&& sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list' \
&& apt-get update \
&& apt-get install -y google-chrome-stable fonts-ipafont-gothic fonts-wqy-zenhei fonts-thai-tlwg fonts-kacst fonts-freefont-ttf libxss1 \
--no-install-recommends \
&& rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
WORKDIR /app
COPY package.json /app
COPY .side.yml /app
COPY test.side /app
COPY results /app
RUN npm i -g chromedriver --unsafe-perm
RUN npm i -g selenium-side-runner --unsafe-perm
RUN npm install
And here I include it into my gitlab CI
gitlab-ci.yml:
e2e:
stage: test
image: <image-of-above-project>:1.0
variables:
GIT_STRATEGY: none
script:
- cat .side.yml
- npm run test
If you need more information on container registry, head to here: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/packages/container_registry/
I'm going through the "Scalable FastAPI Application on AWS" course. My gitlab-ci.yml file is below.
stages:
- docker
variables:
DOCKER_DRIVER: overlay2
DOCKER_TLS_CERTDIR: "/certs"
cache:
key: ${CI_JOB_NAME}
paths:
- ${CI_PROJECT_DIR}/services/talk_booking/.venv/
build-python-ci-image:
image: docker:19.03.0
services:
- docker:19.03.0-dind
stage: docker
before_script:
- cd ci_cd/python/
script:
- docker login -u "$CI_REGISTRY_USER" -p "$CI_REGISTRY_PASSWORD" $CI_REGISTRY
- docker build -t registry.gitlab.com/chris_/talk-booking:cicd-python3.9-slim .
- docker push registry.gitlab.com/chris_/talk-booking:cicd-python3.9-slim
My Pipeline fails with this error:
See https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/login/#credentials-store
Login Succeeded
$ docker build -t registry.gitlab.com/chris_/talk-booking:cicd-python3.9-slim .
invalid argument "registry.gitlab.com/chris_/talk-booking:cicd-python3.9-slim" for "-t, --tag" flag: invalid reference format
See 'docker build --help'.
Cleaning up project directory and file based variables
ERROR: Job failed: exit code 125
It may or may not be relevant but the Container Registry for the GitLab project says there's a Docker connection error.
Thanks
I created a new GitLab account with a new username and things are working now. The underscore does appear to have been the issue.
I'm trying to follow this tutorial to enable formatting checks using black in GitLab CI.
To make things simpler, I've transferred the code from .lint-ci.yml over to .gitlab-ci.yml. The tag of the shared runner that I'm using is gitlab-ci. I'm getting the following error when the pipeline gets run:
bash: line 80: apk: command not found
ERROR: Job failed: exit status 1
Obviously, that's getting thrown for the apk --no-cache add py3-pip python3-dev gcc linux-headers musl-dev libffi-dev openssl-dev git line.
Here's the .gitlab-ci.yml file:
formatter:
stage: build
tags:
- gitlab-ci
image: alpine
only:
- branches
before_script:
- apk --no-cache add py3-pip python3-dev gcc linux-headers musl-dev libffi-dev openssl-dev git
- pip install black
script:
- black . --check
allow_failure: false
Can someone help me solve this issue?
As requested by #slauth, here's the full output of the job:
Running with gitlab-runner 11.6.1 (id1)
on gitlab-ci -CzBAN4M
Using Shell executor...
Running on gitserver...
Fetching changes...
HEAD is now at id2 a
From http://gitserver....
Checking out id3 as gitlabci...
Skipping Git submodules setup
$ apk --no-cache add py3-pip python3-dev gcc linux-headers musl-dev libffi-dev openssl-dev git
bash: line 80: apk: command not found
ERROR: Job failed: exit status 1
Your runner is using the "Shell" executor which does not support the image: configuration, see this compatibility chart.
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.