13.11 update .gitlab-ci.yml

lesson 4 Execute jobs on specific runner (Tags)

Author: JavaScriptonit

.gitlab-ci.yml

@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ variables:
  image_tag: v1.0
 
 run_unit_tests:
+ tags:
+ - ec2
+ - aws
+ - remote
  image: node:17-alpine3.14
  stage: test
  before_script:
@@ -27,6 +31,10 @@ run_unit_tests:
  - echo "Cleaning up temporary files..."
 
 run_lint_tests:
+ tags:
+ - ec2
+ - aws
+ - remote
  stage: test
  before_script:
  - echo "Preparing test data..."
@@ -40,6 +48,9 @@ run_lint_tests:
  - ls
 
 build_image:
+ tags:
+ - macos
+ - local
  only:
  - main
  stage: build
@@ -48,6 +59,9 @@ build_image:
  - echo "Tagging the Docker image $image_repository:$image_tag"
 
 push_image:
+ tags:
+ - macos
+ - local
  only:
  - main
  stage: build
@@ -58,6 +72,9 @@ push_image:
  - echo "Pushing Docker image $image_repository:$image_tag to registry..."
 
 deploy_image:
+ tags:
+ - macos
+ - local
  only:
  - main
  stage: deploy

Course/AWS/EC2 instance.md

@@ -11,11 +11,11 @@
 * Make sure you have your current IP on there and update to be sure it hasn't changed
 * Make sure the key pair you're attempting to use corresponds to the one attached to your EC2
 * Make sure your key pair on your local machine is chmod'ed correctly. I believe it's chmod 600 keypair.pem check this
- * $ chmod 400 gitlab-runner-key.pem
- * $ ssh -i ~/Downloads/gitlab-runner-key.pem ubuntu@ec2-44-203-114-204.compute-1.amazonaws.com
+ * `$ chmod 400 gitlab-runner-key.pem`
+ * `$ ssh -i ~/Downloads/gitlab-runner-key.pem ubuntu@ec2-44-203-114-204.compute-1.amazonaws.com`
 * Make sure you're in either your .ssh folder on your host OR correctly referencing it: HOME/.ssh/key.pem
 * Last weird totally wishy-washy checks:
  * reboot instance
  * assign elastic IP and access that
  * switch from using the IP to Public DNS
- * add a : at the end of user@ip:
+ * add a : at the end of user@ip:

Course/AWS/ec2-runner.md

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+pre steps:
+`$ ssh -i ~/Downloads/gitlab-runner-key.pem ubuntu@ec2-44-203-114-204.compute-1.amazonaws.com`
+
+### After local connection to AWS EC2 instance:
+* `$ apt-get update` - to update the package before installing the tools
+* [Installing GitLab Runner on Linux](https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/install/linux-repository.html)
+* `$ curl -L "https://packages.gitlab.com/install/repositories/runner/gitlab-runner/script.deb.sh" | sudo bash`
+* `$ sudo apt-get install gitlab-runner` - Install the latest version of GitLab Runner
+* `$ sudo gitlab-runner -version`
+* `$ sudo gitlab-runner -status`
+* `$ sudo gitlab-runner register`
+ * url - https://gitlab.com/
+ * token - GR1348941c8-hse4jkvJn1E1y****
+ * desc - ec2-runner
+ * tags - ec2, aws, remote
+ * note - The runner is using shell executor
+ * executor - shell
+* `$ sudo gitlab-runner -start` - restart runner
+* `$ sudo apt install nodejs` - after adding tags to any job in .gitlab-ci.yml
+* `$ sudo apt install npm` - after adding tags to any job in .gitlab-ci.yml

Course/lesson-4.md

@@ -32,4 +32,7 @@ To have 10 runners on 1 machine with its own executor - [GitLab Executors](https
  2. Group Runners - available to all projects in a group
  3. Specific Runners - associated with a specific project (self-managed)
 9. **Specify a Docker image that the jobs runs in:**
- 1. "image: node:17-alpine" with a specific version
+ 1. "image: node:17-alpine" with a specific version
+10. **Multiple Runners:**
+ 1. 1 job runs on a specific runner with configured setup for that job (**flexibility**)
+ 2. Multiple runners with the same configuration for jobs when 1 of that runners fails (**scalability**)

Course/install GitLab Runner/GitLab_Runner.md renamed to Course/local-runner/local-runner.md

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ To install GitLab Runner using Homebrew:
  1. Enter the GitLab instance URL\
  https://gitlab.com/
  2. Enter the registration token:\
- GR1348941c8-hse4jkvJn1E1yaWpC - from [settings/ci_cd](https://gitlab.com/JavaScriptonit/mynodeapp-cicd-project/-/settings/ci_cd)
+ GR1348941c8-hse4jkvJn1E1y**** - from [settings/ci_cd](https://gitlab.com/JavaScriptonit/mynodeapp-cicd-project/-/settings/ci_cd)
  3. Enter a description for the runner:\
  local-runner
  4. Enter tags for the runner (comma-separated):\