GitLab Runner

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GitLab Runner^[1] released in January 2015^[2] 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 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

Contents

1 Configuration
2 Commands
3 New
4 Activities
5 Related terms
6 See also

Configuration

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

Known problems: shell executor doesn't clean up build directories ^[3]

Commands

Full command list: https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/commands/

gitlab-runner --help
gitlab-runner verify
gitlab-runner status
gitlab-runner list (Provides executor information Executor=docker|Executor=shell)
gitlab-runner exec docker validate
gitlab-runner exec docker --docker-privileged $JOB

New

Credential Helpers GitLab Runner 12.0 https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/docker/using_docker_images.html#use-credential-helpers

Activities

Install Gitlab runner
Read GitLab Runner Changelog, approximately monthly releases: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
Read GitLab CI/CD Pipeline Configuration Reference:.gitlab-ci.yml https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/
Read GitLab release notes
Learn differences between TeamCity Agents and Gitlab runners
Create a shared runner in Admin area -> Overview -> runners
Setup Autoscaling GitLab Runner on AWS EC2 (GitLab Runner Manager)

Related terms

See also

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