Support of gitlab 15.6+ runners registration way. about ansible-gitlab-runner HOT 13 CLOSED

I would like to add a +1 for this needs to be supported sooner rather then later. Gitlab 17.0 is slated to be released on 2024-05-16 according to their own page here https://about.gitlab.com/upcoming-releases/

It would also be to assume that 17.0 would roll out on the SaaS site gitlab.com soon after that and then this feature would stop working in this ansible module and ppl who register runners with this module probably would have to revert back to something that @ykslol mentions in previous comments and just run that set of code as a bash script or something

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In our company we have this on our Radar and want to implement this in the next weeks

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Duplicate of #269

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Duplicate of #269

Yes, but that issues is closed. I also want the feature @ykslol proposes, so I think it would be nice to have an open issue on it? (Or reopen #269 )

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@osksa i think it is no matter which task should be opened.
I think i could to post all info, which i posted here, in old task, when it be reopened. And then we could continue our discussion there.

Offtopic - may be required other issue started
Today i registered runner by hands via binary. In new version of this role i think we need to make deprecation for repo installation. This features were added in installation via binary:
From gitlab-docs:

# Download the binary for your system
sudo curl -L --output /usr/local/bin/gitlab-runner https://gitlab-runner-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/latest/binaries/gitlab-runner-linux-amd64

# Give it permission to execute
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/gitlab-runner

# Create a GitLab Runner user
sudo useradd --comment 'GitLab Runner' --create-home gitlab-runner --shell /bin/bash

# Install and run as a service
sudo gitlab-runner install --user=gitlab-runner --working-directory=/home/gitlab-runner
sudo gitlab-runner start

Really simple - no repo installation any more.
Just download, install via builtin runner command and register it with parameters which u need.

With new workflow of gitlab registration - runners management will be much more easy. And this role logic will be simpler

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

I am pretty sure a lot of organisations will start to freak out on things like this. Placing binary files directly from the internet. I am not saying i have something better at the moment, i think we as community need to come up with something solid. Using 'latest' is maybe also not the best approach for some too.

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Then its just 'company work' right? 😎

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:)

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Seems this message did not get a lot of love. This does not mean it was not seen but time wise might not have made it to proper attention. This is just the clean up action ;)

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maybe need to change those bot things a bit..

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Rather than using curl, how about using the community.general.gitlab_runner module? It can be used for registering the runner using both the old and new registration methods and it returns a token which can be written to the runner config.

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This is a great idea!

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Seems this message did not get a lot of love. This does not mean it was not seen but time wise might not have made it to proper attention. This is just the clean up action ;)

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