Deploying cointainers from Gitlab-ci

Rancher 1.x
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Hi! We are doing a similar thing to test out gitlab ci. I kind of hacked a working system together for this. I created a custom gitlab runner image from gitlab-runner that has docker, docker-compose and rancher-compose installed and they are running and registered with gitlab.

Our current pipeline is defined in 3 stages in .gitlab-ci.yml. The publish stage pushes the built images into the private repo, tagged propertly. The deploy stage is set to manual so if you push the button in Gitlab it runs the deployment phase for that version. The gozerthedeployer.sh script is just a wrapper around make that issues announcement of start and end and result to slack using curl posting to a webhook. In a previous version, the gozer script also just installed the compose tools that it needed in the runner if they were missing, which can avoid the need for a custom runner image.

image: docker:git

stages:
  - build
  - publish
  - deploy

.shared: &template
  tags:
    - docker
  only:
    - BRANCH

build_job:
  <<: *template
  stage: build
  script:
    - make TAG=$CI_BUILD_REF_NAME VER=$CI_PIPELINE_ID build

publish_job:
  <<: *template
  stage: publish
  script:
    - make TAG=$CI_BUILD_REF_NAME VER=$CI_PIPELINE_ID tag push

deploy_job:
  <<: *template
  stage: deploy
  script:
    - cd envs && ./gozerthedeployer.sh REDACTED
  when: manual
  environment: REDACTED

Maybe some of that will help :wink: