why gitlab runner don't use my custom npm registry but use the default npm registry

Question

I installed a gitlab runner on my window machine

and I run terminal input "npm config set registry http://my/custom/npm/registry"

and then i trigger a pipeline on my gitlab web page

i saw the terminal pannel show me a default registry value after run "npm config get registry"

why ??

did the gitlab runner doesn't use my npm config on the local machine ?

also, i use nrm to switch the npm registry, i got the same result

Answer 1

Try moving your npm config set registry https://custom-registry.example.com inside your job specification instead of on your host. So for example:

npm_dependencies:
  stage: npm
  before_script:
    - npm config set registry https://custom-registry.example.com
  script:
    - npm config get registry
    - npm install