flaviostutz / gitlab-runner

This is an extension of official Gitlab Runner container with auto registration on startup through TOKEN on ENV

gitlab runner

This is an extension of official Gitlab Runner container that uses environment properties to register the container on startup.

Usage

docker-compose.yml

version: '3.5'

services:
  gitlab-runner:
    image: flaviostutz/gitlab-runner
    volumes:
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
    environment:
      - GITLAB_URL=https://gitlab.com
      - REGISTRATION_TOKEN=[YOUR_TOKEN_HERE]
      - NAME=Testing name with space
      - TAG_LIST=tag-1,tag-2

gitlab-runner's Issues

Add AWS CLI to base image so that CI/CD script can run AWS commands

Label the Docker image with the GitLab runner version

What about labeling the images on DockerHub with the runner version? Maybe create folders here with this pattern.

Add support to `docker-compose` natively

It will be nice to have docker-compose ready on our runner so people could use it effortless.
There are some approach that installs docker-compose in the .gitlab-ci.yml before_script step to so the next steps could use it, but I personally think it is a bit overwhelming and maybe we could provide the runner this capacity natively.
To do so, we just have to change the --docker-image "docker:stable" to use another image that has docker-compose installed. I found this guy that has published this image that could be used: https://hub.docker.com/r/tmaier/docker-compose/
I tested it and worked well...

What do you think?

GITLAB_URL must be `https` instead of `http`

I was stuck here trying to register a runner and receiving the following message:

ERROR: Registering runner... failed                 runner=[RUNNER_TOKEN] status=401 Unauthorized
PANIC: Failed to register this runner. Perhaps you are having network problems 

I tried everything you could imagine, like downgrade the runner version, try to use alpine, bleeding version, and so on.
I also enabled the --debug flag so I could see what was happening, but it cheated me because it prints:

Dialing: tcp gitlab.com:80 ...                     
Dialing: tcp gitlab.com:443 ..

Like if it was redirecting from http to https and solving this problem.

When I changed the URL to https://gitlab.com, the register worked.
So, the docker-compose.yml file should be fixed to have https instead of http