Runners
Part of the GitLab CI course
Everything in this course so far has been a description of work. You wrote script: lines, GitLab read them, and somehow a container appeared, ran your tests, and reported back. That "somehow" has been free and invisible, which is a fine way to learn but a bad thing to still not understand the first time a job hangs in pending forever, or your team runs out of CI minutes on the 12th of the month, or the test suite...
All three of those are runner problems. A runner is the machine that actually executes your jobs. GitLab is the brain that decides what should happen and when. Runners are the hands. ...
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Start this lessonRunnersWhat you'll learn
- Shared runners
- Group runners
- Project runners
- Docker executor
- Shell executor
- Kubernetes executor
- Gitlab-runner register
- Tags
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All lessons in this course
11 lessons- 1What Is CI/CD20 min
- 2Your First Pipeline25 min
- 3Jobs and Stages30 min
- 4Variables and Secrets30 min
- 5Artifacts and Caches30 min
- 6Rules and Conditional Jobs30 min
- 7Docker Jobs and Services35 min
- 8Environments and Deployments30 min
- 9Includes and Templates30 min
- 10Runners30 min
- 11Capstone: Build, Test, Deploy60 min
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