GitLab-CI Multi Runner php composer cache

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Arman P. picture Arman P. · Nov 2, 2015 · Viewed 7.9k times · Source

I'm using gitlab-ci-multi-runner with docker containers. Everything is going fine, but docker containers don't keep the composer cache so in every run composer downloads dependencies again and again, which takes a lot of time. Is there any way to configure gitlab-ci-runner docker container to keep the composer cache or mount a volume on each run where the composer cache is kept?

Answer

BrokenBinary picture BrokenBinary · Jan 25, 2016

You can change the composer cache path by exporting the COMPOSER_CACHE_DIR environment variable in your runner configuration file, and then add a volume in the [runners.docker] section to match it.

If you run gitlab-runner as root or with sudo, then your configuration file is located at /etc/gitlab-runner/config.toml. Otherwise it's located at $HOME/.gitlab-runner/config.toml.

# config.toml

[[runners]]
  name = "Generic Docker Runner"
  ...
  environment = ["COMPOSER_CACHE_DIR=/cache"]
  executor = "docker"
  [runners.docker]
    ...
    volumes = ["/var/cache:/cache:rw"]
    cache_dir = "/cache"

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