GitLab CI/CD Course – Multiple Labs Broken (Repos & Runners Not Provisioned)

CI/CD
#1

Hi team,

I’m raising this as a course-level issue, as it appears to be consistent and reproducible across multiple labs and users.

This relates to the course:
GitLab CI/CD: Architecting, Deploying, and Optimizing Pipelines

Affected labs

Summary of the issue

  • The GitLab repositories that should be auto-created as part of the lab setup are not being provisioned
  • Example: in Lab 1, the expected lab-1 project does not exist in the GitLab instance
  • The same behaviour occurs across Labs 2 and 3
  • As a result, the labs cannot be completed as instructed

Additional blocker

  • There are no Docker runners available in the lab environment
  • Pipelines remain stuck in pending due to the absence of runners

Confirmation

  • The issue has been reproduced multiple times
  • Another learner has confirmed experiencing the same problem

I previously reported this on the KodeKloud community forum and the Discord support channel, but there has been no update so far

Impact

At the moment, this blocks progress through the course, as the labs depend on pre-provisioned GitLab projects and runners to function correctly.

Could the team please confirm whether:

  • There is an ongoing issue with lab environment provisioning, or
  • These labs are currently under maintenance or require updates?

Happy to provide screenshots or any additional details if needed.

Thank you.

1 Like
#2

The same for all other labs in this course

#3

Sorry for the delay. I’ve flagged this for engineering to check and update.

#4

Any updates?
I complaint about the issues with this labs since 2 Jan 2026 using “Report an issue” button and still have no feedback about that.
I bought 1 moth subs. During 1/3 of month labs doesn’t work, due to this learning just blocked.

#5

An engineer has been assigned to it, but he hasn’t finished working on it yet. Sorry for the delay, again.

#6

Hello team, I’ve been facing the same issue without any lab solution, please we need this particular labs for the proper configuration in our daily CI/CD tasks work following the best practices showed by kodekloud! Thanks in advance.

#7

Hello team, I’ve been facing the same issue without any lab solution, please we need this particular labs for the proper configuration in our daily CI/CD tasks work following the best practices mostradas por kodekloud! Thanks in advance.

#8

Any updates?
More then half of the prepaid month I can’t study due to broken labs!

#9

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.