GitLab-CI: Cannot link to a non running container

Question

I\'ve tried to get my setup work with gitlab-ci. I have a simple gitlab-ci.yml file

build_ubuntu:
  image: ubuntu:14.04
  services:
    - rikorose/gcc-cmake:gcc-         


        

Answer 1

You must start the gitlab-runner container with

--privileged true

but that is not enough. Any runner containers that are spun up by gitlab after registering need to be privileged too. So you need to mount the gitlab-runner

docker exec -it runner /bin/bash
nano /etc/gitlab-runner/config.toml

and change privileged flag from false into true:

privileged = true

That will solve the problem!

note: you can also mount the config.toml as a volume on the container then you won't have to log into the container to change privileged to true because you can preconfigure the container before running it.