How to remove/uninstall gitlab-runner completely from centos

Question

My gitlab-runner service is not running no matter what I do. I used to have same problem before and when I used to update, and it used to start running but now it’s not starting at all.

I have uninstalled and then again installed it’s still the same. I guess I am not uninstalling/removing completely. How to uninstall gitlab runner completely or how to start service?

I also don’t get home dir of gitlab-runner. when I say gitlab-runner list I get following config details.

ConfigFile=/home/rohith/.gitlab-runner/config.toml

but I try cd to gitlab-runner user dir I don't find the dir at all.

Answer 1

If you install gitlab runner binary on Ubuntu 20.04 you can uninstall it completely by run below commands:

# Stop and remove the service
sudo gitlab-runner stop
sudo gitlab-runner uninstall
sudo systemctl daemon-reload

# Remove gitlab-runner files and config
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/bin/gitlab-runner
sudo userdel gitlab-runner
sudo rm -rf /home/gitlab-runner/

Answer 2

For Ubuntu/Debian users, newer versions of gitlab-runner on Ubuntu are managed via a .deb file, so this should do the trick:

sudo apt remove gitlab-runner

Answer 3

first:

sudo apt remove gitlab-runner rm -rf /var/opt/gitlab

Kill all process: pkill -f gitlab

then: rm -rf /opt/gitlab rm -rf /etc/gitlab rm -rf /var/opt/gitlab