Gitlab.com pipeline jobs stuck on pending status

pjalmeida · July 24, 2021, 12:28am

All my pipeline jobs are getting stuck with pending status. Is there any geral failure on gitlab.com?

Thank you,
Pedro

Iduoad · July 25, 2021, 3:08am

Can you elaborate or share a link please ?

pjalmeida · July 26, 2021, 8:48am

Hello
Must have been a shared runners unavailability issue. All fine now
Tks

pjalmeida · July 27, 2021, 11:29am

It’s actually a recurring issue. Just now :

Just stays like this for hours…

Iduoad · July 28, 2021, 9:07am

Do you use tags ? if not try adding one

job:
  tags:
    - docker

pjalmeida · July 28, 2021, 9:19am

Hello,
Thanks.
I use tags to run some jobs in specific runners (eg. self-hosted runners)
How could that help me circumvent this issue with shared runners?

Thanks,
Pedro

Iduoad · July 28, 2021, 9:54am

It will make your jobs run in specific shared runners. This way we will be sure whether it is a “shared runners” problem or is it a scheduling problem or something else.

Edit: Try to add a default tag, so that all your jobs will be run on those specific runners.

default:
  tags:
    - docker

pjalmeida · July 28, 2021, 10:29am

Thank you

Iduoad · July 28, 2021, 9:04pm

Have you come to solve your issue ?

pjalmeida · July 29, 2021, 8:50am

Hello,

For now it seems like a very valid workaround
Thanks,
Pedro