Commit 4209212b authored by Mark Pundsack's avatar Mark Pundsack

Add docker bind-mount as an option

parent 17eb5159
......@@ -4,14 +4,14 @@ GitLab CI allows you to use Docker Engine to build and test docker-based project
**This also allows to you to use `docker-compose` and other docker-enabled tools.**
This is one of new trends in Continuous Integration/Deployment to:
This is one of the new trends in Continuous Integration/Deployment to:
1. create application image,
1. run test against created image,
1. push image to remote registry,
1. deploy server from pushed image
1. create an application image,
1. run tests against the created image,
1. push image to a remote registry,
1. deploy server from the pushed image
It's also useful in case when your application already has the `Dockerfile` that can be used to create and test image:
It's also useful when your application already has the `Dockerfile` that can be used to create and test an image:
```bash
$ docker build -t my-image dockerfiles/
$ docker run my-docker-image /script/to/run/tests
......@@ -19,10 +19,7 @@ $ docker tag my-image my-registry:5000/my-image
$ docker push my-registry:5000/my-image
```
However, this requires special configuration of GitLab Runner to enable `docker` support during build.
**This requires running GitLab Runner in privileged mode which can be harmful when untrusted code is run.**
There are two methods to enable the use of `docker build` and `docker run` during build.
However, this requires special configuration of GitLab Runner to enable `docker` support during builds. There are three methods to enable the use of `docker build` and `docker run` during builds.
## 1. Use shell executor
......@@ -150,5 +147,66 @@ In order to do that follow the steps:
An example project using this approach can be found here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-examples/docker.
## 3. Bind Docker socket
The third approach is to bind-mount `/var/run/docker.sock` into the container so that docker is available in the context of that image.
In order to do that follow the steps:
1. Install [GitLab Runner](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ci-multi-runner/#installation).
1. Register GitLab Runner from the command line to use `docker` and `privileged`
mode:
```bash
sudo gitlab-runner register -n \
--url https://gitlab.com/ci \
--token RUNNER_TOKEN \
--executor docker \
--description "My Docker Runner" \
--docker-image "docker:latest" \
--docker-volumes /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
```
The above command will register a new Runner to use the special
`docker:latest` image which is provided by Docker. **Notice that it's using
the Docker daemon of the runner itself, and any containers spawned by docker commands will be siblings of the runner rather than children of the runner.** This may have complications and limitations that are unsuitable for your workflow.
The above command will create a `config.toml` entry similar to this:
```
[[runners]]
url = "https://gitlab.com/ci"
token = TOKEN
executor = "docker"
[runners.docker]
tls_verify = false
image = "docker:latest"
privileged = false
disable_cache = false
volumes = ["/usr/local/bin/docker:/usr/bin/docker", "/cache"]
[runners.cache]
Insecure = false
```
1. You can now use `docker` from build script (note that you don't need to include the `docker:dind` service as in the option above):
```yaml
image: docker:latest
before_script:
- docker info
build:
stage: build
script:
- docker build -t my-docker-image .
- docker run my-docker-image /script/to/run/tests
```
1. However, by sharing the docker daemon, you are effectively disabling all
the security mechanisms of containers and exposing your host to privilege
escalation which can lead to container breakout.
[docker-in-docker]: https://blog.docker.com/2013/09/docker-can-now-run-within-docker/
[docker-cap]: https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/run/#runtime-privilege-and-linux-capabilities
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