I’m facing an issue with the GitLab CI/CD course labs. These labs used to work fine for me, but over the past few days they no longer initialise correctly.
Example affected lab:
Lab 1 – Exploring Pipeline Configuration (Part 1)
Issue details:
The lab-1 project is not created in the GitLab instance.
This a pre-created repository that should be modified to complete the lab.
The problem is not limited to one lab, I’ve also tried Lab 2 and Lab 3, and the same issue occurs.
In all cases, the GitLab projects/repositories that are normally auto-created as part of the lab setup are missing.
I’ve retried each lab multiple times with the same result.
Could you please check whether there’s an issue with the lab environment provisioning or the GitLab integration?
I’m actually not certain which course you’re talking about. Could you please include links to the labs you’re referring to, so I don’t have to look through multiple courses to find where you’re talking about?
Also for the given example (Lab 1) there are no docker runners available for the lab which are required to complete it. The pipelines using docker runners gets stuck as pending because of it.
Also here are the links to lab 2 and 3 as well in case needed (Projects/repos not being created)
that’s correct, I also tried performing labs for ‘GitLab CI/CD: Architecting, Deploying, and Optimizing Pipelines’ course and faced the same issue. The repos to perform lab task are not being created automatically
We’ve just updated the labs, and at least the runner issue in fixed in part – I just did the first lab successfully. You have to create a shared runner – there isn’t one precreated yet – but if you do that, the lab runs to completion.
What’s the issue with lab 4? My sense is that the fix didn’t cover everything that needs work in the course. So your report would help make sure we cover that as well.