GitLab-CI Multi Runner php composer cache

Question

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 c

Answer 1

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"