You've got a newly installed macos Monterey machine you want to use as a gitlab-runner host to test and build your ios and macos projects on. What do you need?
macos command line tools
Get the macos Command Line Tools. In a terminal, run:
xcode-select --install softwareupdate -l # Then pick the most recent version of Command Line tools, e.g. softwareupdate --install "Command Line Tools for Xcode-13.3" sudo xcodebuild -license accept homebrew
Then install homebrew:
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)" and this Brewfile (save it to ~/Brewfile)
brew "asdf" brew "bash" brew "bash-completion" brew "ack" brew "autoconf" brew "automake" brew "coreutils" brew "curl" brew "gettext" brew "git" brew "gnu-sed" brew "gnu-tar" brew "gnu-indent" brew "gnu-which" brew "pkg-config" brew "robotsandpencils/made/xcodes" Then run:
brew bundle in the same folder as the Brewfile (e.g. cd ~ && brew bundle).
Xcode
And get and install the latest Xcode so you have the ios simulator, etc:
XCODES_USERNAME="your_apple_id" XCODES_PASSWORD="your_apple_id_password" xcodes install --latest gitlab-runner
Now install and configure the gitlab-runner:
# Install gitlab-runner # uses `arch` to fetch the correct version [ "$(arch)" = "i386" ] && sudo curl --output /usr/local/bin/gitlab-runner "https://gitlab-runner-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/latest/binaries/gitlab-runner-darwin-amd64" || sudo curl --output /usr/local/bin/gitlab-runner "https://gitlab-runner-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/latest/binaries/gitlab-runner-darwin-arm64" sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/gitlab-runner # Register the runner gitlab-runner register # Install gitlab-runner as a user service. # PLEASE NOTE you must enable autologin to this user # on the macos machine or your runner will be showing # as `stuck` the next time your macos machine reboots # and you don't login. su - $(whoami) cd ~ gitlab-runner install gitlab-runner start Disable macos sleep for the logged in user
Ensure the mac doesn't sleep, if you don't set your mac not to sleep, it will, and then your runner won't be able to pick up jobs, and will be showing as stuck:
sudo pmset -a sleep 0; sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0; sudo pmset -a disablesleep 1 Optional ruby install with asdf when using Fastlane
I also need ruby, because I'm using Fastlane to manage the ios and macos builds, and I'm using asdf to manage ruby versions:
echo "ruby 2.7.6" > ~/.tool-versions asdf plugin-add ruby asdf install ruby 2.7.6 gem install fastlane 
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