Change Gitlab CI Runner user

问题:

Currently when I start a build in GitlabCI it is running under gitlab-runner user. I want to change it the company's internal user. I didn't find any parameter to the /etc/gitlab-runner/config.toml which is solve that.

My current configuration:

concurrent = 1
[[runners]]
  name = "deploy"
  url = ""
  token = ""
  executor = "shell"

回答1:

Running ps aux you can see:

/usr/bin/gitlab-ci-multi-runner run --working-directory /home/gitlab-runner --config /etc/gitlab-runner/config.toml --service gitlab-runner --syslog --user gitlab-runner

Service is running with option --user.

So let's change this, it depends on what distro. you are running it. If systemd, there is a file:

/etc/systemd/system/gitlab-runner.service:

[Service]
StartLimitInterval=5
StartLimitBurst=10
ExecStart=/usr/bin/gitlab-ci-multi-runner "run" "--working-directory" "/home/gitlab-runner" "--config" "/etc/gitlab-runner/config.toml" "--se

Bingo, let's change this file now:

gitlab-runner uninstall

gitlab-runner install --working-directory /home/ubuntu --user ubuntu

reboot the machine or reload the service (i.e. systemctl daemon-reload), et voilà!

回答2:

I found a solution, which is not best pactrice but solved it. I need to use the ssh executer and ssh to localhost. It is require to add gitlab-runner id_rsa.pub to the user's authorized_keys what you want to use. There is my extended code:

concurrent = 1

[[runners]]
  name = "deploy"
  url = ""
  token = ""
  executor = "ssh"
  [runners.ssh]
    user = "user"
    host = "localhost"
    port = "22"
    identity_file = "/home/gitlab-runner/.ssh/id_rsa"

回答3:

Just for future reference, I was doing a test with a cloned version of my setup, if the domainname is not pointing to the server you are working with, gitlab might consider your runners offline. If you have another (copied) instance running at the ip the domain is pointing at and there is no firewall blocking, the gitlab-runner verify command will say your runners are alive.

a solution could be adding your domain pointing to 127.0.0.1 to your hosts file. you'll have to restart your gitlab instance and runners.