Too many docker containers

GitLab CI/CD
1

Hy There,

I have a favor to ask and tell me guys what am I doing wrong with GitLab CI. Firstly the environment.
WebDevelopement is here, so JavaScript, PHP, CSS, HTML, etc. I have a Gitlab server where I wish to run my docker builds. The goal is to use a webserver docker and inside the docker it sets up a database and the whole website and tests it. All done, everything works like a charm. However after a month the server refuses to build any projects. Turn out on the server I had tonns of docker containers. After I remove them all, the server is back again working.
My question is basically: what should I do?

I though of 2 sollutions

  • Create a sudo crontab to remove the containers every week
  • Can’t I tell GitLab to build the container and after the build have succeeded delete it?

Here is my gitlab-ci.yml file for you, so you can see if I’ve made an error:

stages:

  • test
  • dev
  • prod

variables:
MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: root
MYSQL_USER: homestead
MYSQL_PASSWORD: secret
MYSQL_DATABASE: homestead

services:

  • mysql:latest

php:5.6:
stage: test
image: bobey/docker-gitlab-ci-runner-php5.6
script:

  • composer self-update
  • composer install --no-scripts
  • php artisan clear-compiled
  • php artisan optimize
  • cp .env.gitlab .env
  • php artisan key:generate
  • composer dump-auto
  • php artisan migrate:refresh --seed
  • echo “Running PHPUnit Tests”
  • php vendor/bin/phpunit --colors --debug

developement:
stage: dev
when: on_success
only:

production:
stage: prod
when: on_success
only:

In the staging and production stages I just wish to use the last command so, to curl a specific php file on the servers. However this simple job takes about 1 minute to complete. Why? How can I reduce the time for it?

Thank you in advance!

2

Have you tried to compare the local build time for this test and the remote build time? It seems that you are using several containers built from scratch.

3

for instance, it seems that this part could be quite time consuming

4

Hey Doo,

I’ve already tested and tried to initiate the same “script” locally but here it is done in about 1, at bigger project in 2 minutes. I don’t think that the server is that slow. Do you have any idea about the last problem maybe, about initiating a simple curl command?