Services

Services

Services run side-by-side with CI jobs

Services can be declared using the services keyword

• For all jobs
• Per job

Services are accessed using the image name (or an alias)

Services are available for runners with Docker/Kubernetes executor

GitLab only starts the service

No guarantee of availability

Hands-On

Recommendation: Implement in dedicated project

1. Add top-level service based on nginx

    services:
    - nginx:1.20.2
   

2. Access service from job

    test:
      script:
      - curl -s http://nginx
   

3. Check pipeline

See new .gitlab-ci.yml:

git checkout origin/160_gitlab_ci/220_services -- '*'