GitLab runner runs first two commands and says “build succeeded”

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I'm using GitLab's "CI Multi-Runner", which I have installed on Windows 2012 R2 instance. Builds start correctly and begin to run, but the build is marked as complete before it even runs my entire script.

.gitlab-ci.yml

build_web:
  script:
    - cd Web
    - npm install
    - jspm install
    - gulp build

Upon pushing, the pipeline runs through npm install and then outputs "Build succeeded" and ends the build successfully (having skipped the following two commands).

Best Answer

I've been having these early exit issues on GitLab CI with Windows with NodeJs / NPM commands. I solved it using PowerShell to wrap the commands in place of directly calling NPM

replacing:

- npm install

with:

- powershell -Command "Start-Process npm -ArgumentList install -Wait"

In my case I needed to run grunt as well which caused the same issue so similarly wrapped like

powershell -Command "Start-Process grunt -ArgumentList autobuild -Wait"

Hope that works for you
Toby

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Docker – Connect GitLab and Gitlab runner, both in Docker

Ok so after diving into docker more deeply, I understood that I have to link the runner-container to the GitLab container with "link".

This is something that is missing in the docs above. Although it says that running Gitlab and a runner on the same machine isn't suggested (which I guess would also solve the problem), in some scenarios it is needed, so it would be nice to mention that the containers have to be linked:

$ docker run -d -P --name gitlabce gitlab/gitlab-ce:latest
$ docker run -d -P --name runner --link gitlabce:gitlabce gitlab/gitlab-runner:latest

$ docker exec -it runner gitlab-runner register
Running in system-mode.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

Please enter the gitlab-ci coordinator URL (e.g. https://gitlab.com/):                                                                                                                                                                                        
http://gitlabce  

Please enter the gitlab-ci token for this runner:                                                                                                                                                                                                             
(your token from gitlab->admin->runner) 

Please enter the gitlab-ci description for this runner:                                                                                                                                                                                                       
[a11fa3f389d9]:    

Please enter the gitlab-ci tags for this runner (comma separated):                                                                                                                                                                                            

Registering runner... succeeded

I'm new to docker so sorry for this trivial question, but maybe it will help others.

Another method would be to create a user defined network, since, if I understood correctly, containers can communicate with each other without links.