A playbook for installing and running a Gitlab Runner instance using Podman using a normal user. The container still needs to run privileged.

Supports Fedora 33, Debian 12.

$ ansible-galaxy collection install zedr.gitlab_runner

Build the collection:

$ ansible-galaxy collection build -vvv -f --output-path ./build

Install the collection:

$ ansible-galaxy collection install -vvv build/*.tar.gz

Example playbook:

- hosts: all collections: - zedr.gitlab_runner roles: - role: gitlab_runner 

See the role documentation for additional configuration.

OS:

• libvirt-devel

Start the test suite by creating the VM and converging using the role:

$ make converge 

Verify that the test suite passes:

$ make verify 

Destroy the VM:

$ make destroy 

$ CLOUD_IMAGE_URL=file:///home/zedr/Archive/Fedora-Cloud-Base-33-1.2.x86_64.qcow2 \ make converge 

$ EXTRA_VARS="custom_runner_image=quay.io/myrepo/gitlab-runner:latest \ custom_registry_host=quay.io \ custom_registry_username=my_quay_user \ custom_registry_password=my_quay_pass" \ MOLECULE_SCENARIO="registry_auth" \ make converge 

Use with:

$ vagrant up

Destroy the VM with make destroy and retry.

A sporadic issue causing the error message Failed to download metadata for repo 'fedora-modular': Cannot prepare internal mirrorlist: Status code: 503 seems to be unrelated to the role and its tests. Try launching the tests again.

Running systemd ctl commands as an unprivileged user might yield an error Failed to connect to bus: $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS and $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not defined (consider using --machine=<user>@.host --user to connect to bus of other user)

Try defining the env var XDG_RUNTIME_DIR, e.g. XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$UID systemctl --user status