Local Runners don't parse the environment in config.toml

GitLab CI/CD
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Following the documentation found here:

And the attached Example:


[[runners]]
  name = "ruby-2.7-docker"
  url = "https://CI/"
  token = "TOKEN"
  limit = 0
  executor = "docker"
  builds_dir = ""
  shell = ""
  environment = ["ENV=value", "LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8"]
  clone_url = "http://gitlab.example.local"

Problem to solve

I want to expose the local user environment values to the local gitlab runner.
Such as I can retrieve them like $VAR_NAME

  • What are you seeing, and how does that differ from what you expect to see?

Running jobs, the env variables always show up empty

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Steps to reproduce

Which troubleshooting steps have you already taken? Can you link to any docs or other resources so we know where you have been?

This is for the deb version of gitlab-runner, running on pop-os.

I tried several defined locations to configure the environment variables.

/etc/gitlab-runner/
~/.gitlab-runner
And /home/gitlab-runner/.bashrc

With no luck

Configuration

There is a repository dedicated for this bug report located here:

https://gitlab.com/datapond/gitlabPitchCompetition

To reproduce, follow the instruction with a deb installed.

Versions

  • Self-managed
  • GitLab.com SaaS
  • [x ] Self-hosted Runners

Versions

GitLab Enterprise Edition 16.10.0-pre e102282b0bf

GitLab Runner

Version: 16.9.0
Git revision: 656c1943
Git branch: 16-9-stable
GO version: go1.21.7
Built: 2024-02-15T18:34:24+0000
OS/Arch: linux/amd64