One of my projects requires systemd to run in the background. This is perfectly fine for use when installed on the system. But for testing with gitlab and a docker executor, this is bad. I can run a docker container with systemd installed. The entrypoint has to be “/lib/systemd/systemd” (it need…

Docker executor with systemd

chrisc November 20, 2023, 2:45pm 5

This solution only works with GitLab runner up to version 16.5.0, version 16.6.0 breaks it, if anyone has a solution to this I’d be interested to hear it!

UPDATE: This has been fixed with version 16.6.1.

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Docker executor with systemd

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