Show HN: Test your Gitlab CI Pipelines changes locally using Docker

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Post by damnhotuser » Tue, Feb 23, 2021, 12:47 PM UTC

Show HN: Test your Gitlab CI Pipelines changes locally using Docker
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Post by auraham » Tue, Feb 23, 2021, 1:14 PM UTC

Interesting repo! It would be great to have more documentation since I am a beginner in Docker.

Re: Show HN: Test your Gitlab CI Pipelines changes locally using Docker

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Post by brudgers » Tue, Feb 23, 2021, 2:38 PM UTC

auraham wrote: post #2

Interesting repo! It would be great to have more documentation since I am a beginner in Docker.

Not personal, maybe your unfamiliarity with Docker means you're not the target audience. I mean getting people up to speed with Docker is a bit of an ocean to boil, and this project appears to be small of resources...

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Post by ypeter » Wed, Feb 24, 2021, 9:55 AM UTC

Cool, I'm gonna test this out. If it works well it's really useful.

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Post by Aeolun » Wed, Feb 24, 2021, 10:06 AM UTC

This looks interesting. Will test it out. Hope it works with includes.

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Post by Nullabillity » Wed, Feb 24, 2021, 10:10 AM UTC

Why not just use GitLab's runner[0] directly for this?

    gitlab-runner exec docker

[0]: https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/install/

Re: Show HN: Test your Gitlab CI Pipelines changes locally using Docker

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Post by damnhotuser » Wed, Feb 24, 2021, 10:26 AM UTC

Nullabillity wrote: post #6

Why not just use GitLab's runner[0] directly for this? gitlab-runner exec docker [0]: https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/install/

Yeah I thought about that, but gitlab-runner doesn't allow to "share" cache or artifacts between jobs so it's not a good fit to test multiple-jobs workflows.

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Post by damnhotuser » Wed, Feb 24, 2021, 10:27 AM UTC

Aeolun wrote: post #5

This looks interesting. Will test it out. Hope it works with includes.

Yeah it does work with includes. One of the pain point right now is that it does not work with cache:untracked or artifacts:untracked, but I'm trying to figure it out :)

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Post by obayesshelton » Wed, Feb 24, 2021, 11:00 AM UTC

Great idea. One question - what pain point is this solving?

As a GitLab, GitLab Pipeline and Docker user I don't find running pipelines that slow to run or initiate

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Post by conradludgate » Wed, Feb 24, 2021, 11:09 AM UTC

obayesshelton wrote: post #9

Great idea. One question - what pain point is this solving? As a GitLab, GitLab Pipeline and Docker user I don't find running pipelines that slow to run or initiate

Personally with Github Actions, I do find myself pushing 2, 3 or 4 times just getting the pipeline working because I always mess something up, either I've messed up a command or the environment isn't what I expected etc. There's act[0] for github which I should use more often to solve this, but I usually forget

[0]: https://github.com/nektos/act