GitLab Runners

Install Gitlab-runner§

A GitLab Runner is an agent that executes jobs in your CI/CD pipelines.

# Download package
curl -L --output /usr/local/bin/gitlab-runner https://gitlab-runner-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/latest/binaries/gitlab-runner-linux-amd64

# Give running permission
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/gitlab-runner

# Create a dedicated user
useradd --comment 'GitLab Runner' --create-home gitlab-runner --shell /bin/bash

# Install and run the service
gitlab-runner install --user=gitlab-runner --working-directory=/home/gitlab-runner
gitlab-runner start

Here is the link from the Official GitLab Documentation for a Linux install : https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/install/linux-manually.html

Registering your Runner§

Once you’ve installed gitlab-runner on your system, you now have to register it as a runner. To do so, follow these steps: On gitlab, go to settings,CI/CD, and expand the “runners” option.

Configuration of th Gitlab Runner§

Now that you registered the runner you need to configure the parameters and follow the steps.

sudo gitlab-runner register

Modify the default parameters§

Once the process is finished you can modify the default configuration. It may depends from the Linux distro but normally the file is under the path : /etc/gitlab-runner/config.toml.

You can check the configuration options on the Official GitLab Documentation : https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/configuration/advanced-configuration.html