Code deployment Gitlab CI/CD

1 min readMar 21, 2021

Step 1 : Download gitlab runner

sudo wget -O /usr/local/bin/gitlab-runner https://gitlab-runner-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/latest/binaries/gitlab-runner-linux-amd64

Step 2 : Give permission

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/gitlab-runner

Step 3 : Add new gitlab-runner user

sudo useradd gitlab-runner -s /bin/bash

Step 4 : Install gitlab-runner

sudo gitlab-runner install - -user=gitlab-runner --working-directory=/home/gitlab-runner sudo gitlab-runner start

Step 5 : Change user to gitlab-runner

sudo su gitlab-runner

Step 6 : Create this directory

/home/gitlab-runner/.ssh/

sudo mkdir gitlab-runner

sudo mkdir gitlab-runner/.ssh

sudo chown -R gitlab-runner: gitlab-runner/

Step 7 : Create ssh key

ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 2048 -C “any comments”

note: do not provide any phrases while providing ssh key

Step 8 : Copy the public key

cd /home/gitlab-runner/.ssh/

cat id_rsa.pub

Step 9 : Register ssh key in git lab

Now copy the ssh key from id_rsa.pub and save it in gitlab

Step 10 : Setting git user global user

git config — global user.email “user@example.com”

git config — global user.name “User name”

Step 11 : Clone the gitlab repository

git clone git@gitlab.com:sravankml11/django-demo.git

Step 12 : Register runner

sudo gitlab-runner register

YML file

server_deployment:
  variables:
    DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE: settings.settingsstage: deploy
  only:
    - master
  script:
    - echo "Deploying to server"
    - cd /home/sravan/Documents/django
    - git pull origin master

    - /home/ubuntu/partner/lsd/partner-backend/venv/bin/python     
       manage.py migrate --database=lsd
    - echo "deployment completed"

  tags:
    - django

Code deployment Gitlab CI/CD

Written by sravan kunnumal