GitLab CI is designed for the Linux operating system.

GitLab CI officially supports (recent versions of) these Linux distributions:

• Ubuntu Linux
• Debian/GNU Linux

Additionally GitLab CI requires:

• ruby 1.9.3
• MySQL or PostgreSQL

This version (3.x) is designed for GitLab 5.3+.

If you want to use GitLab CI without GitLab or with older versions you need to use 2-2-stable

GitLab CI is a web application with API and connect to db. It manage projects/builds and provide a nice user interface. It uses GitLab application to authenticate users.

GitLab CI Runner is a pure ruby application which process builds. It can be deployed separately and work with GitLab CI through API.

In order to run tests you need at least 1 GitLab CI instance and 1 GitLab CI Runner. However, for running several builds at the same time you may want to setup more than one GitLab CI Runner.

Possible Cases:

• 1 GitLab CI and N GitLab CI Runner instances on same machine
• 1 GitLab CI and N GitLab CI Runner instances on different machines
• 1 GitLab CI and N GitLab CI Runner instances on local machines

• Installation and setup guide

• Feedback and suggestions forum is the place to propose and discuss new features for GitLab CI.