GitLab CI is failing due to maven-surefire-plugin with VM crash

Question

We have around of 10 different applications that are Spring Boot projects with Groovy.

All of our projects build correctly in all developer work stations and they we

Answer 1

I had the same issue

You can find here the issue I created on gitlab for this, with detailed explanations : https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/53734

Also, I found a "workaround". maven:3.5.3-jdk-8 as the docker image on which the build is executing. Or, the forkCount=0 property on maven-surefire-plugin.

But this is disturbing. How, out of a sudden, builds start to fail? Don't know, and I don't think I have the experience necessary to solve this.

Till then, maybe this helps you