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October 17, 2024October 16, 2024

GitLab – no runners for project

Setting up a new self-hosted GitLab, the pipeline for my project is stuck with this error:

… which looks like there are no runners available for the project. I know I have a runner available because I set one up yesterday, so taking a closer look.

In the CI/CD settings for my project, I think I see my shared runner:

Looking in the admin settings, it looks like when I set it up I used the tag ‘shared’:

The error says ‘no runners match all of the job’s tags: docker-test’, so I think what I need to do is change the tags on my runner to match. I edited the tags to remove ‘shared’ and replaced with ‘docker-test’ and now the job starts running! On to the next errors!

October 16, 2024October 15, 2024

Self-hosted GitLab 17.3.0 getting 500 on Runners page in Admin

Attempting to open the Runners page in Admin I get a 500. Following steps on this issue, issue the following commands to resolve:

gitlab-rails console
> ApplicationSetting.first.delete
> ApplicationSetting.first
=> nill

October 1, 2024October 1, 2024

Changing self-hosted GitLab user passwords via cli

After setting up a self-hosted GitLab instance in a Proxmox LXC container using the Debian Turnkey GitLab template, the initial root user password didn’t seem to be what I set it to during install.

Assuming you can ssh into the instance, change the password of any user with:

sudo gitlab-rake "gitlab:password:reset"

This is from the docs here.

December 8, 2018December 8, 2018

Running GitLab in a Docker container on a different port

Gitlab by default runs on port 80. GitLab in a Docker container runs the same as a when natively installed, but to change the port you need to change the config, and change the exposed ports on the container.

First, per steps here, start the container with:

docker run --detach \	
  --hostname gitlab.example.com \	
  --publish host-https-port:container-https-port 
  --publish host-http-port:container-http-port 
  --publish 22:22 \	
  --name gitlab \	
  --restart always \	
  --volume /srv/gitlab/config:/etc/gitlab \	
  --volume /srv/gitlab/logs:/var/log/gitlab \	
  --volume /srv/gitlab/data:/var/opt/gitlab \	
  gitlab/gitlab-ce:latest

By default host-http-port and container-http-port are 80, and host-https-port container-https-port are 443. Change these to be whatever port you want to run on, but keep each pair the same (e.g. host-http-port and container-http-port = 8090)

When the container is up, start a shell into the running container:

docker exec -it containerid sh

and then edit the config file:

vi /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb

and add line (at the top is ok):

external_url 'http://localhost:your-new-port-here

setting your-new-port-here to the new port.

Reconfigure the server:

gitlab-ctl reconfigure

gitlab-ctl restart

Done!