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Posted on October 18, 2023October 18, 2023 by geralexgr — Leave a comment

Download repos with ssh keys on Gitlab with MFA enabled

When you enable MFA in Gitlab you may face issues when interacting with git repositories. Some of your commands like git pull, push etc could fail and this is done because of the MFA.

There is a way to resolve those issues by communicating with ssh keys. The procedure to create and upload your keys are described in the below article.

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/profile/account/two_factor_authentication.html

However sometimes this may not work as in my case. The issue was that the ssh key for some reason could not be found correctly from the computer.

In order to bypass I used the ssh-add command and then pointed the directory of the key.

ssh-add ~/.ssh/gitlab_id_rsa

After this action your gitlab interaction will start working.

Posted on May 21, 2021June 17, 2021 by geralexgr — Leave a comment

CI/CD operations – /usr/bin/oc permission denied

When you get a failure from your CI/CD pipeline regarding permission denied reasons, you should change them accordingly so that all users could access the oc tool.

The resolution is to provide 751 permissions or any other needed, but make some that user that executes the pipeline will be able to run the oc tool. Personally I added execute for others and I could bypass the error.

Posted on May 21, 2021June 16, 2021 by geralexgr — Leave a comment

Create a CI/CD pipeline with Gitlab on container deployments

In order to create a CI/CD pipeline with gitlab built-in functionality you should firstly create the appropriate .gitlab-ci.yml file. This is the file on which the steps will be described for the pipeline.

This file should be placed on the root structure of the branch and every time a commit is pushed on the remote repository the steps will run. Instructions have been provided from gitlab and can be found here

For this example I chose gitlab runner as the building tool and the deployment method of a docker container.

In order to install gitlab runner as a container perform the below steps:

Download the image.

 docker run -d --name gitlab-runner --restart always \
     -v /srv/gitlab-runner/config:/etc/gitlab-runner \
     -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
     gitlab/gitlab-runner:latest

Create a persistent volume

docker volume create gitlab-runner-config

Stop the container if already started from previous step and run it again with the mapped volume

docker run -d --name gitlab-runner --restart always \     -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \     -v gitlab-runner-config:/etc/gitlab-runner \     gitlab/gitlab-runner:latest

You will see the container running

Inspect container and press gitlab-runner register

Start the runner

gitlab-runner start

The runner should have been registered on your gitlab environment

Perform a commit and push changes to your repository

The run task should have started

Check the pipeline and see its status

The job was not succesful and by checking the logs I could verify that DNS resolution could not be enstablished.

In order to fix that you should add an entry for your named gitlab container to your gitlab runner. Unfortunately there are no tools like vim, nano installed on gitlab-runner. However you can bypass this by echoing a value in your /etc/hosts file.

It is also important that your local computer can resolve by fqdn your gitlab deployment. This is necessary because docker should be able to read this entry and perform actions on it.

After those changes you will be able to run your pipeline successfully.