Modify PATH for gitlab-runner

Question

I want to install a gitlab-runner (executor shaell) on my Windows 10 box. I start the job on the gitlab server and it always ends up with the message the command "git" cannot be found (roughly translated into english). As a matter of fact git is not part of my path. How can I modify my PATH variable for the shell the gitlab-runner starts?

To use git on the command line in windows I usually set it with the statement: PATH %PATH%C:\Program Files\Git\bin.

Is it documented somewhere, git has to be available to the runner? How can I see the command line the runner invokes (i.e. the call to git)?

Answer 1

For testing purposes I started the gitlab-runner like: gitlab-runner -l debug --debug run --config config.toml --service gitlab-runner from the directory where the gitlab-runner.exe and the config.toml file reside.

I added the following line to the runners section of my config.toml file:

environment = ['PATH=%PATH%;d:/java/bin;C:/Program Files/Git/bin;c:/program files (x86)/apache-ant-1.10.1/bin']

Answer 2

One can also configure the shell executor environment editing $HOME/.profile (or $HOME.bash_profile) of the gitlab-runner user.

To check the gitlab-runner home directory, run $ sudo cat /etc/passwd | grep gitlab-runner | cut -d: -f6 .

Answer 3

On macOS the only thing that really worked for me is this solution of adding the PATH to Library/LaunchAgents/gitlab-runner.plist:

<key>EnvironmentVariables</key>
<dict>
    <key>PATH</key>
    <string>/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin</string>
</dict>

Then restart gitlab-runner and you are good to go.

I suppose there is a Windows equivalent of this solution as well.

Answer 4

This GitLab Runner issue answers your question.

The environment setting doesn't work since it gets evaluated before the variables are set, but you can use pre_build_script in the runner config to update the path.

[[runners]]
  name = "My Runner"
  url = "https://gitlab.com/"
  token = "Abcd1234"
  executor = "shell"
  pre_build_script = "set Path=%GIT_HOME%\\usr\\bin;%Path%"