novitsh/gitlab-ci-chrome-headless repository overview

⁠GitLab CI - Chrome headless

This project allows you to work with GitLab CI and use a container that can both git push to an origin and allow you to run a headless chrome.

This is useful when you have another external git repository hosting your codebase of your application and at the same time you are in need of headless browser capabilities for purposes such as Behat testing from that remote server.

Example implementation .gitlab-ci.yml file:

image: novitsh/gitlab-ci-chrome-headless

stages:
  - develop

before_script:
  - echo "Establishing SSH tunnel in the background."
  - ssh -R 9222:localhost:9222 $USER@$REMOTE -fN

deployment to develop:
  stage: develop
  script:
    - echo "Now pushing new code to remote git repository."
    - git-push $USER@$REMOTE:$PROJECT.git develop
    - ssh $USER@$REMOTE "cd /project/behat && bin/behat --config behat.yml"
    

⁠Breakdown

Above example code will basically open an SSH tunnel, push the Gitlab repo to a remote server, and then connect to it to run some Behat tests.

Please note that $USER, $REMOTE and $PROJECT are variables you need to set in the CI/CD environment variables section. So just don't copy paste this example :-)