GitLab CI is an open-source continuous integration server

This is Runner repository. This code will only run tests. For more information and the test coordinator please see the gitlab-ci repo.

Requirements

This project is designed for the Linux operating system.

We officially support (recent versions of) these Linux distributions:

• Ubuntu Linux
• Debian/GNU Linux

Mac OSX and other POSIX operating systems are not supported but will work with adaptations.

Under Windows the runner will only work under POSIX compliant environments like Cygwin.

To run GitLab CI we recommend using GitLab 6.0 or higher, for LDAP login this is required.

Installation

Install operating system dependent dependencies:

a) Linux

sudo apt-get update -y
sudo apt-get install -y wget curl gcc libxml2-dev libxslt-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libreadline6-dev libc6-dev libssl-dev make build-essential zlib1g-dev openssh-server git-core libyaml-dev postfix libpq-dev libicu-dev

b) MacOSX (make sure you have homebrew installed)

sudo brew install icu4c

Install Ruby from source:

a) Linux

mkdir /tmp/ruby
cd /tmp/ruby
curl --progress http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.3-p392.tar.gz | tar xz
cd ruby-1.9.3-p392
./configure
make
sudo make install

b) MacOSX (make sure you have the Xcode command line tools installed), UNTESTED

brew update
brew install rbenv
brew install ruby-build
brew install openssl
CC=gcc-4.7 RUBY_CONFIGURE_OPTS="--with-openssl-dir=`brew --prefix openssl` --with-readline-dir=`brew --prefix readline` --with-gcc=gcc-4.7 --enable-shared" rbenv install 1.9.3-p392
echo 'if which rbenv > /dev/null; then eval "$(rbenv init -)"; fi' >> ~/.profile
rbenv global 1.9.3-p194

Download the code for the runner:

# Use any directory you like
mkdir ~/gitlab-runners
cd ~/gitlab-runners
git clone https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlab-ci-runner.git
cd gitlab-ci-runner

Install the gems for the runner:

gem install bundler
bundle install

Setup the runner interactively:

bundle exec ./bin/setup

Setup the runner non-interactively:

CI_SERVER_URL=https://ci.example.com REGISTRATION_TOKEN=replaceme bundle exec ./bin/setup

SSH into your GitLab server and confirm to add host key to known_hosts:

ssh git@<your gitlab url>

Run

bundle exec ./bin/runner

Autostart Runners

On Linux machines you can have your runners operate like daemons with the following steps

# make sure you install any system dependancies first

administrator@server:~$ sudo adduser --disabled-login --gecos 'GitLab CI Runner' gitlab_ci_runner
administrator@server:~$ sudo su gitlab_ci_runner
gitlab_ci_runner@server:/home/administrator$ cd ~/

# perform the setup above

gitlab_ci_runner@server:~$ exit;
gitlab_ci_runner@server:/home/gitlab_ci_runner$ sudo cp ./gitlab-ci-runner/lib/support/init.d/gitlab_ci_runner /etc/init.d/gitlab-ci-runner
gitlab_ci_runner@server:/home/gitlab_ci_runner$ cd ~
administrator@server:~$ sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/gitlab-ci-runner
administrator@server:~$ sudo update-rc.d gitlab-ci-runner defaults 21 
administrator@server:~$ sudo service gitlab-ci-runner start