Hi! I want to use the GitLab CI to 1) build source code 2) create rpms 3) take these rpms and install and configure the software on a remote machine
1) and 2) are more or less ok, and I have already implemented this in our GitLab CI. When it comes to 3): I will have a set of persistent cloud-machines in our University cloud that I will use to install, configure and run our software (Nordugrid ARC). I wonder what would be the best way to do this in the GitLab CI. I was thinking about one option to use a simple alpine+ansible docker image inside the runner. I then need to be able to ship the ansible playbooks to the runner, or alternatively I can download it inside the runner. Then the ansible playbooks are run to set up the remote machine. But to do that I also need to have the ssh key-pair that I want to use on the gitlab runner. Question 1) How to in a safe way ship the ssh key-pair (where the public key part of this is already in the authorized_keys file on the remote host) to the gitlab runner? Question 2) Is the way I sketch out above a good way of deploying the software? Or are there other better ways? I could deploy also just inside the runner, and send some test-jobs from within. But as a real test, I need the software to be installed and run on a remote host for proper testing. Best wishes, Maiken -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GitLab" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gitlabhq+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gitlabhq/a6c9077e-e941-4286-9360-f21e1ae732e9%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
