GitLab AutoDevops Environment Issues - gitlab

Question

So I am new to Gitlab Autodevops having switched from Travis and Github. The issue I am currently facing is that when I make a push and the pipeline kicks in, it doesn't see any of my list environment variables. I set production, and testing environment variables for mongodb and redis, but during the pipeline, it's trying to connect to localhost for both, totally ignoring the environment variables set in CI/CD settings. See pictures below:
Dockerfile
WORKDIR /app
COPY package*.json ./
RUN apk add --update alpine-sdk nodejs npm python
RUN LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib64/:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH && export LD_LIBRARY_PATH && npm i
COPY . .
RUN npm run build
EXPOSE 3000
CMD ["npm", "start"]
docker-compose.yml
version: "3.7"
services:
backend:
container_name: dash-loan
environment:
MONGODB_PRODUCTION_URI: ${MONGODB_PRODUCTION_URI}
MONGODB_TEST_URI: ${MONGODB_TEST_URI}
REDIS_PRODUCTION_URL: ${REDIS_PRODUCTION_URL}
REDIS_TEST_URL: ${REDIS_TEST_URL}
PM2_SECRET_KEY: ${PM2_SECRET_KEY}
PM2_PUBLIC_KEY: ${PM2_PUBLIC_KEY}
PM2_MACHINE_NAME: ${PM2_MACHINE_NAME}
PORT: ${PORT}
MODE_ENV: ${NODE_ENV}
restart: always
build: .
ports:
- "8080:3000"
links:
- mongodb
- redis
mongodb:
container_name: mongo
environment:
MONGO_INITDB_DATABASE: dashloan
MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_USERNAME: sampleUser
MONGO_INITDB_ROOT_PASSWORD: samplePassword
restart: always
image: mongo
ports:
- "27017-27019:27017-27019"
volumes:
- ./src/database/init-mongo.js:/docker-entrypoint-point.initdb.d/init-mongo.js:ro
- ./mongo-volume:/data/db
redis:
container_name: redis
restart: always
image: redis:5.0
ports:
- "6379:6379"
volumes:
mongo-volume:
.gitlab-ci.yml
image: node:latest
services:
- mongo:latest
- redis:latest
cache:
paths:
- node_modules/
job:
script:
- npm i
- npm test
I need help on how to make sure the test pipeline is using the environment variables I set; and not trying to connect to localhost which fails.
Error on gitlab pipeline
Variables in Gitlab
GKE which is running fine

Answer 1

You could use shell runner instead of docker runner and then just call docker-compose in before script.
cache:
paths:
- node_modules/
job:
before_script:
- docker-compose up -d
script:
- npm i
- npm test
after_script:
- docker-compose down