I've set up my own Gitlab server with one project and a Gitlab runner configured for it. I'm new to continuous integration server and therefore don't know how to accomplish the following.
Every time I commit to the master branch of my project I would like to deploy the repository to another server and run two shell-commands there (npm installand forever restartall)
How would I do this? Do I need a runner on the machine which the project is deployed to as well?
You could use gitlab-ci and gitlab-runner [runners.ssh] to deploy to single or mutiple servers.
the flow:
(git_project with yml file) --> (gitlab && gitlab-ci) --> (gitlabrunner) ---runners.ssh---> (deployed_server,[deploye_server2])
you need register gitlab-runner to gitlab-ci and set the tag to delpoyServer on gitlab web . /etc/gitlab-runner/config.toml:
[[runners]]
url = "http://your.gitlab.server/ci"
token = "1ba879596cf3ff778ee744e6decedd"
name = "deployServer1"
limit = 1
executor = "ssh"
builds_dir = "/data/git_build"
[runners.ssh]
user = "you_user_name"
host = "${the_destionation_of_deployServer_IP1}"
port = "22"
identity_file = "/home/you_user_name/.ssh/id_rsa"
[[runners]]
url = "http://your.gitlab.server/ci"
token = "1ba879596cf3ff778ee744e6decedd"
name = "deployServer2"
limit = 1
executor = "ssh"
builds_dir = "/data/git_build"
[runners.ssh]
user = "you_user_name"
host = "${the_destionation_of_deployServer_IP2}"
port = "22"
identity_file = "/home/you_user_name/.ssh/id_rsa"
the runner.ssh means, the runner will login into ${the_destionation_of_deployServer_IP1} and ${the_destionation_of_deployServer_IP2}, then clone the project to builds_dir.
write the yml file for example: .gitlab-ci.yml
job_deploy:
stage: deploy
tags: delpoyServer1
script:
- npm install && forever restartall
job_deploy:
stage: deploy
tags: delpoyServer2
script:
- npm install && forever restartall
set the your gitlab-runner to delpoyServer1 and delpoyServer2tags in 'http://your.gitlab.server/ci/admin/runners'
.gitlab-ci.yml file in your project, choose a runner with the tags: deployServer1 or deployServer2; gitlab-runnerwith the deployServer1 tag will login into ${the_destionation_of_deployServer_IP1} and ${the_destionation_of_deployServer_IP2} with ssh , clone the project to builds_dir, then execute you script: npm install && forever restartall.link:
/home/change_me/.ssh/id_rsa . Before that you must append the the public key content to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file in the runner server's. The ssh key is between runner server and deloy servers : (private ssh key in runner server) --> (deploy servers with ssh public key)identity_file = "/home/user_name/.ssh/id_rsa". When i put the previous line the runner doesn´t work and show the same error message, in my /etc/ssh/sshd_config file i put AuthorizedKeysFile /home/user_name/.ssh/authorized_keys and HostKey /home/user_name/.shh/id_rsa. Why the runner doesn´t work with the identity_file? i´m doing something wrong?
failed to remove node_modules/.... Do you have any idea about my situation?You should be able to use gitlab-ci.yml documentation to add a separate build stage into your .gitlab-ci.yml file.
You will need some sort of deploy service (like capistrano or similar), or a webhook that'll initiate a deployment.
I.e. something like:
---
stages:
- test
- deploy
job_runtests:
stage: test
script:
- npm test
job_deploy:
stage: deploy
script:
- curl -X POST https://deploymentservice.io/?key=
Gitlab CI will iterate through each stage it finds, running them sequentially. If a stage passes, then it moves on to the next.
Unfortunately Gitlab CI can't do deployment directly (although you can install the dpl Ruby Gem and call that in your .gitlab-ci.yml file like so:
job_deploy:
- gem install dpl
- dpl --provider=heroku --app=my-app-staging --api-key=$HEROKU_STAGING_API_KEY
only:
- master
for example)
$HEROKU_STAGING_API_KEY and then in Settings -> CI/CD for your project, add a protected environment variable.