gitlab Runner installation and deployment

1. Install gitlab Runner

This demonstration is for centos 7.5 environment. Please adjust according to your own environment.

1)Online installation

#Install official image source [root@k8s-node02 ~]# curl -L https://packages.gitlab.com/install/repositories/runner/gitlab-runner/script.rpm.sh | sudo bash #yum install gitlab Runner [root@k8s-node02 ~]# yum install gitlab-runner -y

2)Offline installation

• gitlab Runner download address: https://packages.gitlab.com/runner/gitlab-runner

• Server creation installation package location

  [root@k8s-node02 gitlab-runner]# mkdir -p /tools

• Download gitlab-runner

  [root@k8s-node02 gitlab-runner]# cd /tools/
  [root@k8s-node02 tools]#ll
  total 0
  [root@k8s-node02 tools]# wget https://packages.gitlab.com/runner/gitlab-runner/packages/fedora/29/gitlab-runner-12.6.0-1.x86_64.rpm/download.rpm
  [root@k8s-node02 tools]#ll
  total 49860
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 51052604 Jan 19 22:45 gitlab-runner-12.6.0-1.x86_64.rpm

• Install gitlab runner

  #Install git
  [root@k8s-node02 tools]# yum install git -y
  
  #rpm offline installation of gitlab runner requires dependence on git, so please install git in advance
  [root@k8s-node02 tools]# rpm -ivh gitlab-runner-12.6.0-1.x86_64.rpm
  Preparing... ################################# [100%]
  Updating/installing...
     1:gitlab-runner-12.6.0-1 ################################ [100%]</ pre></li><li>Tip: For the above two installations, please install according to actual conditions.</li><li>Specify gitlab-runner <pre>[root@k8s-node02 ~]# useradd staff
  
  [root@k8s-node02 ~]# gitlab-runner uninstall
  Runtime platform arch=amd64 os=linux pid=25137 revision=ac8e767a version=12.6.0
  
  [root@k8s-node02 ~]# gitlab-runner install --working-directory /home/staff --user staff
  Runtime platform arch=amd64 os=linux pid=25169 revision=ac8e767a version=12.6.0
  
  [root@k8s-node02 staff]# vim /etc/systemd/system/gitlab-runner.service
  [root@k8s-node02 staff]# cat /etc/systemd/system/gitlab-runner.service
  [Unit]
  Description=GitLab Runner
  After=syslog.target network.target
  ConditionFileIsExecutable=/usr/lib/gitlab-runner/gitlab-runner
  
  [Service]
  StartLimitInterval=5
  StartLimitBurst=10
  ExecStart=/usr/lib/gitlab-runner/gitlab-runner "run" "--working-directory" "/home/staff" "--config" "/etc/gitlab- runner/config.toml" "--service" "gitlab-runner" "--syslog" "--user" "staff"
  
  Restart=always
  RestartSec=120
  
  [Install]
  WantedBy=multi-user.target

• Start gitlab service

  [root@k8s-node02 ~]# systemctl daemon-reload #Reload configuration
  [root@k8s-node02 tools]# /bin/systemctl start gitlab-runner #Start service
  [root@k8s-node02 tools]# /bin/systemctl enable gitlab-runner #Set up startup
  [root@k8s-node02 tools]# /bin/systemctl restart gitlab-runner #Restart service

• Verify whether the service is started

  [root@k8s-node02 java_demo]# ps -ef |grep gitlab
  root 25339 1 0 01:16 ? 00:00:11 /usr/lib/gitlab-runner/gitlab-runner run --working-directory /home/staff --config /etc/gitlab-runner/config.toml -- service gitlab-runner --syslog --user staff

• Set permissions

  [root@k8s-node02 ~]# chown -R staff.staff /home/gitlab-runner

3)gitlab runner registration service

• After installing gitlab Runner, you can register a Runner for the warehouse in gitlab. The interactive command for registration is as follows:

  [root@k8s-node02 ~]# gitlab-runner register

• We start registration

  [root@k8s-node02 ~]# gitlab-runner register
  Runtime platform arch=amd64 os=linux pid=6245 revision=ac8e767a version=12.6.0
  Running in system-mode.
  
  #Enter the company's gitlab public network address
  Please enter the gitlab-ci coordinator URL (e.g. https://gitlab.com/):
  http://192.168.200.133/
  
  #Enter the gitlab token, find the token in the third step, then select the fourth step and copy the token
  Please enter the gitlab-ci token for this runner:
  8sjydnrsPuSRhKiQTQky
  
  #Enter a name describing this runner
  Please enter the gitlab-ci description for this runner:
  [k8s-node02]: my-runner
  
  #Enter the runner tag
  Please enter the gitlab-ci tags for this runner (comma separated):
  my-tag,another-tag
  Registering runner... succeeded runner=8sjydnrs
  
  #Enter the environment of the runner executor
  Please enter the executor: custom, docker-ssh, parallels, kubernetes, docker-ssh + machine, docker, shell, ssh, virtualbox, docker + machine:
  shell
  Runner registered successfully. Feel free to start it, but if it's running already the config should be automatically reloaded!

• Verify whether gitlab runner is registered successfully

During verification, please refresh the interface, view it again, and verify
3) Summary of common commands of gitlab Runner

Order	describe
gitlab-runner run	Run a runner service
gitlab-runner register	Register a new runner
gitlab-runner start	Start service
gitlab-runner stop	Close service
gitlab-runner restart	Restart service
gitlab-runner status	Check the status of each runner
gitlab-runner unregister	Log out of a runner
gitlab-runner list	Show all running runners
gitlab-runner verify	Checks if a registered runner can connect to GitLab, but it does not verify if the runner is being used by the GitLab Runner service.