GitLab Runner

GitLab Runner released in January 2015 and written in Go offers continuous integration in GitLab, it is used to run your CI/CD jobs and send the results back to GitLab.

Configuration: /etc/gitlab-runner/config.toml. Read https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/configuration/advanced-configuration.html

Configuration allows to define

• how many jobs you can run in parallel concurrent option
• Integration with sentry
• Integration with Prometheus

• Runners cache: [runners.cache] https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/configuration/advanced-configuration.html#the-runnerscache-section

Commands

• gitlab-runner --help
• gitlab-runner verify
• gitlab-runner status
• gitlab-runner list

Activities

1. Read GitLab Runner Changelog, approximately monthly releases: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
2. Read GitLab CI/CD Pipeline Configuration Reference:.gitlab-ci.yml https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/
3. Read GitLab release notes
4. Learn differences between TeamCity Agents and Gitlab runners

See also

• GitLab: Install GitLab, Upgrade GitLab Gitlab runner (changelog), gitlab.rb, .gitlab/, gitlab-ci.yml, gitlab-ctl, gitlab-rake, gitlab-backup, gitlab-rails, GitLab editions, GitLab Security Dashboards, GitLab environments, GitLab environment variables, Auto DevOps, permissions, GitLab Pages, gitlab-rails, GitLab scheduled pipelines, GitLab logs, GitLab changelog , GitLab Release CLI, GitLab Omnibus, GitLab Advanced Search, GitLab container registry, GitLab infrastructure registry
• git: [config | init | status ], git add, git rm, git commit, git push, git pull, .gitconfig, .gitignore, git (clone, fetch, pull), git tag, git log, git blame, Merge Request, LFS, git branch, git apply, git rebase, git diff, git diff-tree, git config --global, remote | submodule | request-pull, GIT_TRACE, GIT_CURL_VERBOSE, clean, main, git show-ref, git reset, git prune, git ls-remote origin, git checkout, git switch, pathspec, git credential-osxkeychain, git version, pre-commit, git --help, GitBook, refs/

https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/commit/6f1b10ef6d72de4afc0937ca9337b41be543d64c