To easily install GitLab Runner on Ubuntu, make sure that you have a recent version installed, as GitLab only provides packages for the currently supported versions. Next, open a terminal session on your Ubuntu box and run the following command:
curl -L https://packages.gitlab.com/install/repositories/runner/gitlab-runner/script.rpm.sh | sudo bashsudo yum install gitlab-runner
Let's break this down a bit.
The first command downloads and executes a script from GitLab that checks if your operating system is compatible, sets up your local package manager (yum) with the right URLs to get packages and lists from, and then updates those lists. This is a security anti-pattern, though, as the user isn't sure what they're executing and it could ...
