Is there a way to run sbt-native-packager within Gitlab shared runner?

Question

I've been trying to build docker images in Gitlab shared runner. I'm building my application using image: "hseeberger/scala-sbt:11.0.6_1.3.10_2.11.12" image normally and I locally build the docker image with sbt-native-packager which made me think that i need to use DiD service.

I'm currently having an issue which the sbt-native-packager cannot locate docker executable and fails to build the image. What I am missing here?

My script is as follows:

docker:
  stage: deploy
  image: "hseeberger/scala-sbt:11.0.6_1.3.10_2.11.12"
  services:
    - name: docker:dind
  script:
    - sbt docker:publishLocal
    - docker push registry.gitlab.com/groupName/moduleName

Answer 1

The following actually did the trick for me although it is quite heavy to install Docker in the runner every time, however, that's the only way I could make it work.

docker:image:
  stage: release
  image: "hseeberger/scala-sbt:11.0.6_1.3.10_2.11.12"
  before_script:
    - apt-get update
    - apt-get install sudo
    - apt-get install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl software-properties-common -y
    - curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/debian/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
    - sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/debian $(lsb_release -cs) stable"
    - apt-get update
    - apt-get install docker-ce -y
    - sudo service docker start
    - docker login <to your account>

  script:
    - sbt docker:publishLocal
    - docker tag module:latest registry.gitlab.com/moduleGroup/module:0.1-SNAPSHOT
    - docker push registry.gitlab.com/moduleGroup/module