How to update Gitlab Runners?

Introduction

GitLab Runner is an application that works with GitLab CI/CD to run jobs in a pipeline. GitLab Runner is open-source and written in Go. It can be run as a single binary; no language-specific requirements are needed.

How to update?

Stop the service

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sudo gitlab-runner stop

Download the binary to replace the GitLab Runner executable

We can see the list of all releases in the Official Gitlab Runner repository.

In this case I had an Ubuntu machine and wanted to update to the latest v14.x machine. so the proer version is v14.8.3.

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sudo curl -L --output /usr/local/bin/gitlab-runner "https://gitlab-runner-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/v14.8.3/binaries/gitlab-runner-linux-amd64"

Setting permissions to execute

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sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/gitlab-runner

Starting the service

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sudo gitlab-runner start

Done 🙂