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GitLab Quick Start Guide
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GitLab Quick Start Guide

by Adam O'Grady
November 2018
Beginner
180 pages
4h 26m
English
Packt Publishing
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Registering the CLI

Jump into a terminal session on your GitLab Runner machine.

Run the following command:

sudo gitlab-runner register

This should lead you to an interactive prompt. First, you'll need to input the URL of your GitLab instance (make sure that it's reachable from the Runner). Next up, it will ask for the shared token that you copied earlier. Then, enter a name for the Runner and lastly a series of comma-separated tags. You can use these tags to describe or group the Runner, maybe by OS, capability, pre-installed frameworks, and so on. Lastly, you have to pick the GitLab Runner executor; this is how GitLab Runner will execute any tests. In most circumstances, you should select docker, but there are some occasions where you might ...

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