Self-hosting gitlab autodeploy to aws ec2 server - gitlab

Question

I'm asking this because because I cannot find a running example similar to my case. I have this self hosted Gitlab in a AWS EC2 machine (let's call this "machine 1" and I want to set autodeployment to my AWS EC2 remote server , called "machine 2".
My Gitlabs installation shows (machine 1):
gitlab-ce 10.4.4
gitlab-config-template 10.4.4
gitlab-cookbooks 10.4.4
gitlab-ctl 10.4.4
gitlab-healthcheck
gitlab-monitor
gitlab-pages
gitlab-psql
gitlab-rails
gitlab-scripts
gitlab-selinux
gitlab-shell
gitlab-workhorse
I have follow gitlab instructions to setting up CI & CD on gitlab documentation in my project I want to set autodeployment. The follow steps are follow:
1.I have create runner following gitlabs doc , not much to show here except (machine 2):
url: https://url.to.my.compute.amazonaws.com
Token : token given by gitlab
Executor: shell
Tags: build deploy qa stage
2.I have created my .gitlab-ci.yml (in root project) file with (even with two yml file version created i have tried):
yml 2:
stages:
- build
- deploy
build:
stage: build
script: echo "Building the app"
deploy_staging:
stage: deploy
script:
- echo "Deploy to staging server"
yml 1:
#develop stage
deploy:
stage: deploy
before_script:
#generate ssh key
- mkdir -p ~/.ssh
- echo -e "$SSH_PRIVATE_KEY" > ~/.ssh/id_rsa
- chmod 600 ~/.ssh/id_rsa
script:
- bash .gitlab-deploy.sh
environment:
name: develop
url: https://my.domain.com
when: manual
3.I have set two SECRET VARIABLES
SSH_PRIVATE_KEY and DEPLOY_SERVERS (with secret key and ips respectively)
4.I have add a deploy.sh file (in root of my project)
#!/bin/bash
#Get servers list
set -f
string=$DEPLOY_SERVERS
array=(${string//,/ })
#Iterate servers for deploy and pull last commit
for i in "${!array[#]}"do
echo "Deploy project on server ${array[i]}"
ssh ubuntu#${array[i]} "cd /var/www/html/app && git pull origin develop"
done
My gitlab-runner shows me at this momment:
gitlab-runner verify
WARNING: Running in user-mode.
WARNING: The user-mode requires you to manually start builds processing:
WARNING: $ gitlab-runner run
WARNING: Use sudo for system-mode:
WARNING: $ sudo gitlab-runner...
And Running as sudo as says it show my runner :
Verifying runner... is alive runner=
Verifying runner... is alive runner=
Verifying runner... is alive runner=
but still in gitlabs ui is getting a "STUCK" tags and the job tell me to "job is stuck, check runners"
Questions:
Are this all the steps to follow?
Do you see anything (or process) I miss in all this configuration?
In my gitlab remote I have "master" permissions, is this what i need to run a runner ?
how can i debug at this point ( i'm using gitlab-runner --debug verify ) is that all I can?
Thanks in advance for you help.

Answer 1

When runner is "specific" , stages need a "tag" like:
stages:
- build
- deploy
build:
stage: build
script: echo "Building the app"
deploy_staging:
stage: deploy
script:
- echo "Deploy to staging server"
tags:
- deploy