CI/CD blindtest with Gitlab

gitlab | runner | ci/cd ansible | ci/cd www | ci/cd laravel | ci/cd react | sast

pipeline blindtest

from your workstation

trigger a test-run

git clone PROJECT-URL
cd PROJECT/
vi .gitlab-ci.yml

stages:
  - deploy

deploy prod:
  stage: deploy
  script:
    - echo TEST OK
    - ansible --version
    - ansible-community --version
  only:
    #- master
    - main
  tags:
    - runner1

git add .gitlab-ci.yml
git commit -m "test ci/cd"
git push

runner setup for pipelines

when using private repository or self-hosted gitlab, we need a user to grab the code, but we don’t have a user for the runner, and we would like to avoid using adding runner’s pubkey to our very own profile. workaround is to grab and send a tarball, – all we need to check is basic stuff anyhow, no need to keep the repo in sync.

from workstation

scp repo-name-master.tar.gz gitlab-runner-server:~/dev/

from runner

cd ~/dev/
tar xzf repo-name-master.tar.gz
cd repo-name-master/