Gitlab CI/CD runner : mvn command not found

Question

Maven is well installed on my gitlab-runner server. When executing mvn clean directly on my repo it works, when running my pip

Answer 1

I hope you had figure out your question. I met the same question when I build my ci on my server.

I use the shell as the executer for my Runner. here are the steps to figure out.

1 check the user on the runner server

if you had install maven on the runner server successfully, maybe it just successful for the root, u can check the real user for the ci process.

job1:
  stage: test
  script:  whoami

if my case, it print gitlab-runner, not the root

2 su the real user, check mvn again

In this time, it print error as same as the Gitlab ci UI.

3 install maven for the real user. run the pipeline again.

Answer 2

Add maven to PATH:

$ export M2_HOME=/usr/local/apache-maven/apache-maven-3.3.9

$ export M2=$M2_HOME/bin

$ export PATH=$M2:$PATH 

You can include these commands in $HOME/.bashrc

Answer 3

Just add the maven docker image, add below line as first line:

image: maven:latest or image: maven:3-jdk-10 or image: maven:3-jdk-9

refer: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/examples/artifactory_and_gitlab/

Answer 4

I managed to fix the problem using this workaround:

  script:
    - $MAVEN_HOME/bin/mvn clean