Tired of pushing to test your .gitlab-ci.yml?

Run gitlab pipelines locally as shell executor or docker executor.

Get rid of all those dev specific shell scripts and make files.

Table of contents

• Examples
  • docker-compose-nodejs
  • docker-swarm-php
• Installation
• Convenience
  • DotEnv file
  • Bash alias
  • Tab completion
• Quirks
  • User Variables
  • Decorators
  • Artifacts
• Development
  • Scripts
  • Package binaries

Installation

NPM

npm install -g gitlab-ci-local

Linux

Download and put binary in /usr/local/bin

sudo su # must be installed as root, if placed in /usr/local/bin/
curl -L https://github.com/firecow/gitlab-ci-local/releases/latest/download/linux.gz | gunzip -c > /usr/local/bin/gitlab-ci-local
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/gitlab-ci-local
exit

Or install it only for the current user

curl -L https://github.com/firecow/gitlab-ci-local/releases/latest/download/linux.gz | gunzip -c > ~/.local/bin/gitlab-ci-local
chmod +x ~/.local/bin/gitlab-ci-local

You'll be able to run gitlab-ci-local if the environment variable $PATH contains ~/.local/bin/. If it isn't, please refer to the documentation of your shell to add it.

Macos

Download and put binary in /usr/local/bin

sudo su # must be installed as root, if placed in /usr/local/bin/
curl -L https://github.com/firecow/gitlab-ci-local/releases/latest/download/macOS.gz | gunzip -c > /usr/local/bin/gitlab-ci-local
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/gitlab-ci-local
exit

Windows (Git bash)

Install gitbash

Download and put binary in C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin

curl -L https://github.com/firecow/gitlab-ci-local/releases/latest/download/win.gz | gunzip -c > /c/Program\ Files/Git/mingw64/bin/gitlab-ci-local.exe

Convenience

DotEnv file

Add a .gitlab-ci-local-env file to the current working directory

# Overrides .gitlab-ci.yml as the default git ci/cd file
FILE=doctor-strange.yml # --file

# Always runs needed jobs, when gitlab-ci-local <job-name> is called
NEEDS=true # --needs

All cli options can be assigned default values this way

Bash alias

echo "alias gcl='gitlab-ci-local'" >> ~/.bashrc

Tab completion

gitlab-ci-local --completion >> ~/.bashrc 

Quirks

User variables

Put a file like this in $HOME/.gitlab-ci-local/variables.yml

---
project:
  gitlab.com/test-group/test-project.git:
    # Will be type Variable and only available if remote is exact match
    AUTHORIZATION_PASSWORD: djwqiod910321
  gitlab.com:project/test-group/test-project.git: # another syntax
    AUTHORIZATION_PASSWORD: djwqiod910321

group:
  gitlab.com/test-group/:
    # Will be type Variable and only available for remotes that include group named 'test-group'
    DOCKER_LOGIN_PASSWORD: dij3213n123n12in3

global:
  # Will be type File, because value is a file path
  KNOWN_HOSTS: '~/.ssh/known_hosts'

Variables will now appear in your jobs, if project or group matches git remote, global's are always present

Decorators

The @Description decorator

Adds descriptive text to gitlab-ci-local --list

# @Description Install npm packages
npm-install:
  image: node
  artifacts:
    paths:
      - node_modules/
  script:
    - npm install --no-audit

The @Interactive decorator

# @Interactive
interactive-shell:
  rules:
    - if: $GITLAB_CI == 'false'
      when: manual
  script:
    - docker run -it debian bash

The @InjectSSHAgent decorator

# @InjectSSHAgent
need-ssh:
  image: kroniak/ssh-client
  script:
    - ssh-add -L

Artifacts

Shell executor jobs copies artifacts to host/cwd directory

Docker executor copies artifacts to and from .gitlab-ci-local/artifacts

Development

You need nodejs 14+

Scripts

./docker-npm install
npm run build
npm run test

Package binaries

npm run pkg-linux
npm run pkg-win
npm run pkg-macos
npm run pkg-all