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GitlabCI free shared runners to provision Ubuntu instead of CoreOS?

I see that GitlabCI now offers free runners for even private repositories in gitlab.com which is great (powered by DigitalOcean). However it seems the default runner is installed in a CoreOS distro which spawns a docker "ruby:2.1" by default.

Is there a way to configure these runners to spawn a Ubuntu 16.04 LTS docker image instead?

Solution

  • Turns out that I can use any image name from the docker hub.

    So I added this at the top of my .gitlab-ci.yml:

    image: ubuntu:16.04