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Øystein Seel
Øystein Seel

Reputation: 935

Pass docker image between jobs in gitlab runner

I'm trying to build an image in one job and push to AWS ECR in another, since the steps are different I'm trying to pass the image as an artifact:

.gitlab-ci.yml:

stages:
    - build
    - push
  
  
  build_image:
    stage: build
    image: docker
    services:
      - docker:19.03.12-dind
    script: 
      # building docker image....
      - mkdir image
      - docker save apis_server > image/apis_server.tar
    artifacts:
      paths:
        - image
      
  
  push_image:
    stage: push
    image: docker
    services:
      - docker:19.03.12-dind
    before_script:
      - apk add --no-cache python3 py3-pip && pip3 install --upgrade pip && pip3 install --no-cache-dir awscli
    script:
          - ls
          - docker load -i image/apis_server.tar
          - docker images
          # ecr auth and push to repo...

I get the following warning in the pipeline:

Uploading artifacts for successful job
Uploading artifacts...
WARNING: image: no matching files. Ensure that the artifact path is relative to the working directory

The second job fails with the following message:

$ docker load -i image/apis_server.tar
open image/apis_server.tar: no such file or directory

This approach is based on the answer provided here

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2715

Answers (1)

Mojtaba Ahadi
Mojtaba Ahadi

Reputation: 349

For your question, use the full directory address for artifacts.

I have some recommendations for you to speed up you pipeline. If you always install some packages in your pipeline, make a docker image based on your requirements, then use that image in your pipeline instead.

If you need to deploy an image in another place, I recommend you to use docker hub, or make a self hosted docker repository. It is more efficient. Because in docker deployment, the changed layers will be downloaded. But the way you are using, you download all the layers.

Upvotes: 1

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