I have previously written to this repository, but that was to the branch main, before the first version of the software was put into production. Evaluate your needs carefully and consider experimenting with both platforms to determine which aligns best with your workflow and objectives. Another plus on GitLab is better project management (issues, epics, …). GitLab runner is running under a dedicated user gitlab-runner if you are using shell executor. Make sure, that user has the same environment as your user. Or try to run the command under gitlab-runner user and see if it works.
Job failed with exit status 1 without any error
- Just interesting that it didn’t match, as it makes me wonder what process that GitLab Runner .rpm is using to create the gitlab-runner account during installation.
- Simply renaming a branch in the remote would be great.
- The “one-stop-shop” model’s main limitation is that some features might offer a “good enough” solution rather than a best-in-class one.
- You might get prompted for username/password once on git clone .
- I cannot find anything in the logs to indicate what the issue here is.
Actually, I have tried creating a separate job with only the above command in order to avoid job failure on other commands. Having this all integrated means the code review happens right next to the code and the CI/CD pipeline, so you’re not constantly switching contexts. KDE also completed its move to a self-hosted GitLab repository in mid-2020.
User gitlab-runner is added to /etc/subuid and /etc/subgid, etc. The one thing that requires a bit of setup in this solution is the mirroring. I think I’ve read there’s an option for that in GitLab, to push changes to GitHub automatically. How do I download a single (small) file from my private gitlab repo? When you make a request to GitLab (either from your browser or a Git command), it goes through a web server to GitLab Workhorse, which is a smart reverse proxy. Web and API requests go to the main GitLab application, while background jobs like CI pipelines are handled by a service called Sidekiq.
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I had to Used this command git branch -m old branch name new branch name. I was deleting the remote branch in Gitlab via GUI and that was not helping.I tried deleting the remote branch by git on command line and it worked. The world of AI is powered by massive infrastructure, and CoreWeave is one of the key players providing the computational muscle. But what exactly do they do, and is it what your business needs to leverage AI? This is where a specialized tool can work alongside GitLab to create a much more productive environment. While GitLab is busy managing your code, an AI-powered internal assistant can manage your scattered knowledge.
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GitLab docs must be updated, what a waste of time, I’m sure tons of people are switching to Docker due to this problem. Notice 984 still exists, but I can’t open it from my account. Since you are having problems trying to run it as a user, I suggested to do what normally would be done with podman, and enable it system-wide so. I cannot find anything in the logs to indicate what the issue here is. But I’m hoping someone else has hit on this and can point me in the right direction.
SpinupWP is where I have linked GitLab to the Lightsail server. Make sure that you have enabled write access for that Deploy key. If you don’t need to protect that branch you don’t need to enable Branch protection.
In this detailed overview, we break down its action-oriented features, complex workflow capabilities, and opaque pricing model to help you decide if it’s the right fit for your team. You don’t need to be a systems architect to use GitLab, but understanding a little about how it works can help you see how it delivers that all-in-one service. While the full architecture is complex, a few key services do most of the work.
- But for the knowledge that actually fuels your team, think about pairing it with a tool that brings everything together.
- Please let me know any having knowledge about this.
- When I do this I get errors of pre-recive hooks rejecting the deletion of protected branches.
- I had used the repo approach so that updates would be performed during usual maintenance automatically.
- You can’t deactivate pull requests, but that’s not a problem anyway.
- You made it very clear and I’ve been following the tutorial on setting up runners on my local device.
But that I suspect is to be expected being a user-level service. For now all I have in the repo itself is a README.md and .gitlab-ci.yml file. And the contents of the latter are the default where it’s just a few stages that all pretty much just execute echo https://traderoom.info/github-gitlab-bitbucket-azure-devops/ commands. You can’t deactivate pull requests, but that’s not a problem anyway. Unless you make an incredibly popular project, pull requests will be so rare it won’t bother you where they come from.
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It connects to all your company’s knowledge sources, including Confluence, Google Docs, Slack, and even your GitLab Wiki, to create a single source of truth. So it appears that ~5 seconds after logging out of gitlab-runner, the socket file is fully removed. Again, seems like expected behavior to me in a Podman environ. From there, as if I try to run that command from either my account or as root, you don’t see that in the output.
You didn’t specify, what kind of developer are you? If you’re building software, you know how quickly the toolchain can get out of hand. You might be using one tool for your code repos, another for CI/CD, a third for tracking issues, and a handful more for security scans and project management. Also means when rebooting the server, it will also automatically run even if the user is not logged in. I’ve just done this, and now the user-level podman service/socket remains.
This is especially noticeable in areas like internal knowledge management, where critical information often remains scattered across other dedicated tools. GitLab is an incredibly capable DevSecOps platform. For teams that want to consolidate their tools, cut down on complexity, and build security into their development process from the start, it’s a fantastic choice.
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I’m trying to create a runner setup script using the GitLab CI pipeline. Here, I registered the executor as shell and planning to run an initial pipeline that set up the runner machines with all the required installations. Inform your team members about the branch name change, so everyone is aware and can update their local repositories accordingly. This does not help if you have merge requests pending from that branch, you’ll also need to delete the merge requests and create new ones which is not ideal. Simply renaming a branch in the remote would be great. Ready to help your development team get more done?
GitHub vs GitLab – Why should I choose GitLab?
Figuring out the right one really depends on what your team needs for collaboration, security, and scale. These security features are a big part of the Ultimate tier, which is what makes GitLab a legitimate DevSecOps platform. GitLab’s big promise is to clean all that up by replacing the sprawling, complex setup with a single, unified DevSecOps platform. Now just to get GitLab to update their docs (or modify their .rpm to handle this for users).
I have found a lot over youtube and other pages but for gitlab.com which brought me a lot of problems as they were not working as it was trying to connect to gitlab.com. This GitLab overview suggests complementing GitLab with a specialized AI-powered internal assistant like eesel AI. This tool can unify scattered knowledge from sources like Confluence, Google Docs, and Slack, providing a single, intelligent source of truth for developers. The main thing to consider is whether its all-in-one model is the right fit, or if you’d rather build your own stack of specialized, best-in-class tools.