GitLab Verify Group, 8 Mar 2023

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From YouTube: New runner creation workflow demo

Description

Demo of the implementation of the "Next GitLab Runner Token Architecture"

Learn more at: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/architecture/blueprints/runner_tokens/

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Hello, my name is Michael Duncan and I am going to give a quick demo of our new Runner workflow process, I'm, going to show you how we are able to register Runner right now from the admin page, and this is a new feature that we are going to release shortly.

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uh So first of all, I have to make sure that the right feature flag is enabled so I'm going to just type this into my rails, console to ensure that we are working on as you can see, uh I have enabled this feature flag already now I'm going to download the the latest Runner package. This package has the already accounts for the new registration process is not yet available to everybody, so I have to download it from the main branch going to start the download over here.

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And we're almost done and I'm going to prepare it in the X commands that ensures that I can execute the GitHub Runner myself and I'm going to install it in my machine.

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Okay, so now that uh I have the latest, the very latest Runner version installed I'm able to follow the creation instructions in the admin Runners page that I have in my development environment I'm, going to create a new instance. Runner I'll select the Mac OS instructions and create my new Runner I.

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Don't need to choose any specific configuration and just have it I'll just have it set to run untag jobs because I will not be sending any tags and I'm going to submit okay now that I have submitted I get the instructions to register this new Runner onto my instance with the new registration token I'm, going to type Dot and slash before, because that's where my actual Runner executable is and then I'm going to run the registration.

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It will confirm that the gitlab instance URL and the registration token are correct.

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And then it will prompt me to select an Executor, just as the instructions uh say so I'm going to select a shell and now I can see that the runner has been verified.

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As a next step, I will be able to test if the runner is actually picking up jobs. So I'm going to and I'm going to select run. I should see some feedback about my new Runner.

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Okay and now I see that the new Runner has been created. If I visit the runners page as you'd, see my new Runner online, okay and I can see its version. I can see it has been created just now and in the future we will be able to see who created it as well. Thank you very much.