I'm using Gitlab CI on one of my projects and I face the following problem :
My master build fails since a lot of time...
I push a new branch built from the master (no new commits) and push it, the build works.
I think that it's related to build cache because the codebase is strictly the same... The latest valid build cache may make the current code base failed...
Is there a way to clean the build cache on a specific branch ? In my case the master ? From the API ?
Finally, the Gitlab Team gave me the solution on Twitter : https://twitter.com/gitlab/status/832674380790394880
Since my repository is hosted on gitlab.com, I can't remove the cache by myself. But on the .gitlab-ci.yml file documentation, it's explained that we can use a cache:key entry.
This cache:key is used to determine how the cache entry is named so I can change the default value to start on a blank cache 😊.
Below a sample of my .gitlab-ci.yml file :
my-asset-build:
cache:
key: "$CI_COMMIT_REF_NAME-assets"
With that configuration, my cache is related to the current ref (so a build on the same ref will use the cache) with a suffix !
Thanks to the Gitlab Team for their quick answer on Twitter !
If you have trouble with the variable name, maybe you need to check this page : https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/ci/variables/README.html#9-0-renaming
Also, since Gitlab 10.4, we have a "Clear runner cache" button in the pipeline list. Clicking on that button will have the same effect than changing variable name without polluting commit history.
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The company I work for has a self hosted Gitlab CE server v13.2.1.
For a specific project I've setup the CI jobs to build according to the following workflow :
If a commit has been pushed to the main branch
If a merge request has been created
If a tag has been pushed
Every day at midnight to build the main branch (using scheduled pipelines)
Everything works fine. The only thing I would like to improve is that the nightly builds are performed even if the main branch has not been modified (no new commit).
I had a look to the Gitlab documentation to change my workflow: rules in the .gitlab-ci.yml file but I didn't find anything relevant.
The gitlab runner is installed in a VM and is setup as a shell executor. I was thinking of creating in the home directory a file to store the last commit ID. I'm not a big fan of that solution, because :
it's a ugly fix.
The pipeline will be triggered by Gitlab even if it does nothing. This will pollute the pipeline list.
Is there any way to setup the workflow: section to perform this so the pipeline list won't contain unnecessary pipeline ?
Getting the following error when using drone cli to add/activate repo
No help topic for 'add'
I can confirm I am successfully login and I am an admin.
{"id":1,"login":"XXXXX","email":"","machine":false,"admin":true,"active":true,"avatar":"https://bitbucket.org/account/XXXX/avatar/32/","syncing":false,"synced":1578888217,"created":1578431775,"updated":1578891320,"last_login":1578891344}
I can also list my repo using 'drone repo ls'
My guess, if you are using the add option is that you are still interacting with drone 0.8 or below, in this case the docs have been archived to an alternate location in favor of the latest version (v1.x). The old docs are still available under the following URL and help for the add option is present there:
https://0-8-0.docs.drone.io/cli-repository-add/
If you are not using 0.8 and are indeed trying to use 1.x, perhaps you are referencing improper documentation, as this cli option shifted in v1 to enable
$ drone repo enable <repo/name>
Regardless of the versions however, you will want to ensure you both have admin access to the repository (so that drone is able to add the appropriate webhooks) and also refresh or sync your repo listing in if it is something brand new:
$ drone repo sync
username/hello-world
organization/minio
...
NOTE: This might take a bit depending on how many repos you have access to
Is it possible to delete old builds in Gitlab CI?
I tested a few things and have now about 20 builds that are useless (most are failed anyway).
It also shows stages that I don't have anymore which kinda clutters the Pipelines page and some of the uploaded artifacts are a bit big.
I wasn't able to find any documentation on this, only that disabling CI in the settings doesn't remove the builds.
Using Gitlab 8.10 Community (hosted by Gitlab.com)
There is currently no option in the GUI to completely get rid of a build other than expunge related data from the build. (The erase option in the build)
If you would have a local installation you could modify the database directly but I would advise caution. (I'll put the guide here for completeness sake)
Login to the GitLab database. If you use the default PostgreSQL :
sudo -u gitlab-psql /opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/psql -h /var/opt/gitlab/postgresql -d gitlabhq_production
Check if there is a table ci_builds. For pSQL: \dt
Delete the builds with normal SQL. For example: DELETE FROM ci_builds WHERE id = 2
(Optional) If you want to cleanup a list of commits which triggered a build you need to midify the table ci_commits.
For my Rails apps I normally deploy to production from a tagged version, and then display the tag in the user interface assigning the output of git describe --always to a variable in config/application.rb.
Now I'm moving an app over to Heroku, and deployment to heroku only happens using the master branch, so this trick won't work any more.
Are there any other ways to assign a version number to my code and display it on the UI when I've deployed to heroku?
Thanks,
Stewart
You can add a variable to the Heroku configuration by running this command locally whenever you push new changes to Heroku:
heroku config:add GIT_TAG=`git describe --always`
Then you can access this in your app's configuration:
version = ENV['GIT_TAG'] || `git describe --always`
When the app is running on Heroku, it will pick up the config variable (ENV['GIT_TAG']) and when it's running locally in development it will fall back to running git describe --always.
You will need to update the Heroku config variable each time you deploy, but I generally add this kind of thing to a deploy script or rake task (along with useful things like creating a new tag marking the deploy and running any new database migrations on Heroku).
Doesn't git tag fit your needs?
And why wouldn't the old trick work anymore?
If you want to display it on the UI then a git SHA output probably isn't particularly useful - you have two options, set a Heroku config variable with a user friendly version number in or a set a version number in your code that you increment when you deploy from master. You could probably wrap the deploy up in a rake task that incremented the version number either a file (and then readded it to git and commits it) or simply increments a value in a config variable.
Also, don't forget Heroku release management http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2010/11/17/releases/ which you may also be able to employ here to get the version number from that perhaps.
I just downloaded the free trial of Bamboo continuous integration server, and created the first plan with nothing but downloading the source code from the git. I have a local git repository on the bamboo machine so the git URL is pointing to a local path.
The problem is that when I run the job, it never finishes even after waiting for an hour. This is the last lines of the activity log:
07-Apr-2011 20:03:23 Checking out revision f9dc82500914333ed4bbdae5ed038771fd658c3c.
07-Apr-2011 20:03:23 Creating local git repository in '/home/bob/bamboo-home/xml-data/build-dir/DEV-DEV-1/.git'.
From the shell I can go to the directory shown in the log and see that the source code were cloned correctly to the bamboo working directory. But the job will never finish and the log will not have any more update from here. I have to manually terminate the job. Any ideas? Do I miss something?
Just a guess, since the Bamboo instance we have at work pulls from Accurev and not Git, and I've never run into this problem myself - but it may be hung because there isn't a builder defined for that plan. You might try defining a builder (even if it's one that you know will fail) just to see if it makes it to that next step.
I had very similar problem.
It's not very original solution but I just uninstalled bamboo and installed it again.. Now it works now