Gitlab-runner doesn't find the Gitlab instance

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Hello!

Beginner here :slight_smile:

I’ve set up a Gitlab instance on my company’s local network.
It is hosted in a docker container, running on a dedicated server, whose hostname is “devserver”
This Gitlab instance is reachable via “https://mycompanygit”, because the network dns is set to redirect mycompanygit to the local ip of devserver.
On devserver, there is an other container running, a nginx reverse-proxy, which redirects http and https requests for mycompanygit to the gitlab container.
Now I’d like to add a third container, a Gitlab-runner instance.
So I run the following command, taken from here.

docker run --rm -t -i -v /srv/gitlab-runner/config:/etc/gitlab-runner --name gitlab-runner gitlab/gitlab-runner register \
  --non-interactive \
  --executor "docker" \
  --docker-image alpine:3 \
  --url "https://mycompanygit" \
  --registration-token "MY_REGISTRATION_TOKEN" \
  --description "docker-runner" \
  --tag-list "docker,aws" \
  --run-untagged \
  --locked="false"

I get:

ERROR: Registering runner... failed                 runner=i3ygCNvW status=couldn't execute POST against https://mycompanygit/api/v4/runners: Post https://mycompanygit/api/v4/runners: dial tcp: lookup mycompanygit on 8.8.8.8:53: no such host
PANIC: Failed to register this runner. Perhaps you are having network problems

How do I get the Gitlab-runner to see the Gitlab instance ? I don’t even know if it’s related to Docker or Gitlab ?

Also: the gitlab and nginx instances have been setup together with docker-compose, does that matter ?

Thanks a lot :slight_smile: Please tell me if I’m not clear, I’ll try to reformulate