How to configure your own Gitlab CI Runner 

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this is so much more concise than other tutorial videos. Thank you for actually knowing what you're doing haha

Hi there, great video to get started with gitlab runners, I ran into some issues running from scratch on Windows and this is how I worked through them: 1. Runner does not connect with gitlab: there can be many reasons this happens, but for me it was due to registering the runner before having completed the docker desktop installation in full, including the restart. Runners were able to connect after that, but I did have to run the command *gitlab-runner-windows verify* 2. Executor requires OSType=windows, but Docker Engine supports only OSType=linux, as the error itself says, this is due to selecting docker-windows as the runner executor instead of simply docker, you can change the executor on a runner but it might be quicker to register a new one with the right executor type. 3. Runner stuck pulling docker image ruby:2.6 - I was doing all this on a random Windows laptop I had lying around, which had a pretty finicky WiFi connection and timed out several times trying to pull docker images. You can just retry when your runner host internet connection is better, what I did is a manual docker pull ruby:2.6 before running the pipeline. Not a great solution in actual CI/CD but in those cases I guess it's better to have at least a partial dockerhub mirror or your internal docker registry that is reachable and fast to connect to. For context, I installed git for windows and docker desktop right before gitlab-runner, and chose to work with linux docker containers. That was all I needed, but for folks out there don't forget to do all the command-line stuff in an elevated shell/powershell session. I would massively recommend to use Linux instead if you can

Quick, easy, and straight to the point! Awesome!

I need to do this same thing... your video was so concise and straight to the point, thanks!

This is what exactly I'm looking for 👍

This is great. Just what I needed. Thanks. I would also see how to create a runner inside a Docker image that is running in the GitLab Registry.

thank you soo much , i was so much confuse to solv this problem

Your tutorials are very helpful :)

This is short and clear, thanks

Nice tuto sir. Thanks a lot :)

Super useful buddy!

It's very helpful... Please upload video for gitlab jira integration.. thanks

Thank you !

Hi, this seems stupid question, why you select ruby:x.x.x as default image? and how this affects the container execution?

Hello, Valentin. I have a question. Gitlab already has shared runners. Why install your own runner? Is it safe to use shared runners provided by Gitlab by default? When do you need to install your runner? Thank you!

Neat explanation :) so is there a performance advantage with specific runner ? shared runners take a long time usually

Followed all instructions here and successfully added a gitlab runner in Gitlab project settings. But when I run pipelines, they are stuck in "pending state". The gitlab-runner is not picking up the jobs, anyone can help?

Thank you so much

Nice intro! I have a doubt which might be stupid, how does the gitlab connect to the runner on your local to run the pipeline? Should there be a connectivity of my machine on network and the firewall has to be turned off? please suggest , Also redirect me if there's a link on gitlab which answers this Thanks!

Hi, what is the meaning of "Running on server"? How it is implemented? Below is the snippet of the pipeline log:- Using Shell executor... 00:00 Running on server...

Thanks for your helpful video. I just want to know which infrastructure is "more cost effective" and "more reliable". I want to use AWS for Gitlab configuration. Only 1000 minutes on gitlab.com. I think the quota is not enough. therefore there are 2 options on the gitlab documentation page, one of them "Auto-Scale GitLab Runner on AWS EC2" and "Auto-Scale GitLab CI on AWS Fargate". So which one do you think should I install?

Hi Valentin, // I HAVE A QUESTION! my GitLab runner is not picking jobs ,it is registered ,it is running and while running a pipeline it runs couple of jobs and stuck in pending state .if i try to run any other job it goes into pending .. only solution i found is GitLab-runner run ,command . do you know what could be the issue and how can i permanently fix this ? also it started happening only after i install docker on the runner machine (ec2 rhel)

Can we create Gitlab runners with our own images(linux and windows)? I am trying to create a runner in EKS cluster. Please suggest.

Hey would you be able to do a video for autoscaling runners in AWS with docker-machine. Pretty please!

Thanks for the video. How to deploy via cicd if machine is behind the windows bastion host. My aws instance is behind windows bastion. Is this task possible. Currently my cicd is deploying to dev environment(public IP), the requirement is to deploy to prod environment(privateIP)

Спасибо. заработало

My runner fails to run the pipeline because its a private repo - how do i allow access for the runner ?

Hey, i have a local shell runner and need to add to my gitlab with shared docker executor.. can you tell me the steps

Getting the below error when I try to run on windows machine. Please suggest some tips. Thank You ERROR: Job failed (system failure): prepare environment: failed to start process: exec: "pwsh": executable file not found in %PATH%.

Thanks for this video, I'd like to know how can I run my own private docker image from AWS ECR instead of that default (ruby:2.6 ) image? Should I use shell mode and download through a shell script?

What if you get a docker login error? One thing I find ot hard to understand is that is it possible I can have Gitlab project on Gitlab.com while my runner is on my virtual machine and how will my runner understand that there is a commit on my project and create a docker image on my VM

I am using shell, how to added another runner? I need 2 runners and make one active and other pause. Also I want make this as highavaiable if one runner down, other should pick up

Hi, nice video. If i use docker via the Cloud Version i can run a runner on my local maschine or do i have to use a server in the internet? If not, how does it work that gitlab hast access to my local maschine?

3:03 right after this, there is now optional maintenance note for the runner and i can't skip when i try to press enter it just does a newline. How can i skip it ?

Hi, Created runners using command in Linux and it's active also. But when I do push or commit changes to gitlab cicd pipeline is triggered but status shows pending for some time and gets failed. What is the reason? Could u please help me

How to configure proxy for gitlab runner? Im using dind and kubernetes executor

Nice tutorial. Is it mandatory to have GitLab code on https (SSL Certificate verified) to use GitLab CICD?

Hi Valentin! thanks for all the knowledge just wanted to know the difference between /etc/gitlab-runner/config.toml and /srv/gitlab-runner/config/config.toml whenever i am registering gitlabrunner it's being updated in /etc/gitlab-runner/config.toml which i am able to list as well what is the role of /srv/gitlab-runner/config/config.toml how will i overwrite the same

Hey Valentin, I am wondering how to register two runners on the same machine. I am looking to use it for another project.

I don't find the "runners" section under CI/CD, what is the problem?

I followed the steps you mentioned on my local gitlab server. But I am getting error while registering runner

Neat explanation :) But I ran into problem when I run this command: sudo gitlab-runner install Error: FATAL: Please specify user that will run gitlab-runner service

How can I setup a runner to run using my target platform? Like run directly on my machine not in a container

Sir in my remote server im installed the gitlab runner and after my gitlab-runer registration the gitlab repo ci/cd runners stores ipv6 address. but i need to fetch ipv4. what i will do for this problem ?

for every project wee need to install runner newly?

Do you have gitlab pipeline on Kubernetes tutorial?

How do I use an existing docker image that has programs loaded in it. Your demo does not seem useful scenario

do i need to have docker installed on my desktop for this?

How can I define a specific shared runner into my gitlab-ci ?

Hi what shoud i do for this problem ? ERROR: Registering runner... failed runner=PzKU6zJ8 status=couldn't execute POST against gitlab-test.test.ir/api/v4/runners: Post gitlab-test.test.ir/api/v4/runners: Bad Gateway PANIC: Failed to register this runner. Perhaps you are having network problems

Can you please create gitlab-ci.yml file for ReadyAPI/Soapui

lets see the pipeline steps

Are you still answering ?

The runner is very slow compared to gitlab shared runner