GitLab CI/CD does not work as advertised in documentation

[sgrossberndt]

When creating a CI job as documented at https://deployer.org/docs/7.x/ci-cd#gitlab-cicd the deployment fails with
/bin/bash: dep: command not found

The problem is probably that setting an empty entrypoint: [""] is required to be able to execute the before_script to add the SSH key, but inside the image the command dep is not known

The default entrypoint is to run php /bin/deployer.phar:
https://hub.docker.com/layers/deployphp/deployer/v7/images/sha256-442a2f14be51abdd61d2c102bd1c8631b5b1bbd76fb1f4999250e0f9c2557a4e

Running deployer with

  script:
    - php /bin/deployer.phar deploy -vvv

works, so the problem is only the missing dep command.

The recently added bitbucket-example uses php /bin/deployer.phar.

Either

• the documentation for GitLab CI/CD should be adapted to use php /bin/deployer.phar instead of dep in script
  or
• the image layers of the docker image should be adapted to allow calling dep.

[alexgit2k]

sgrossberndt is right, https://github.com/deployphp/deployer/blob/7.x/docs/ci-cd.md?plain=1#L73 says:

deployer/docs/ci-cd.md

Line 73 in 101da0f

- dep deploy -vvv

but Image https://github.com/deployphp/deployer/blob/7.x/Dockerfile#L9 runs

deployer/Dockerfile

Line 9 in 101da0f

ENTRYPOINT ["php", "/bin/deployer.phar"]

In the master for the upcoming version 8 it has been changed from php /bin/deployer.phar to /bin/dep in e6c5aae.

@antonmedv So please integrate the commit e6c5aae also in the version 7 branch so that dep can be used and no change is required here when switching to 8.

[antonmedv]

Could you please add a PR to 7.x branch with array_is_list polyfill?

[NickVulkers]

@antonmedv #4019 should be sufficient I think.

[alexgit2k]

Uff! I didn't know. I will update to php8 as well.

@antonmedv It seems that the Github workflow for automatic Docker image releases has not worked properly. Deployer v7 Dockerfile now uses PHP 8.3, but latest Deployer Docker image v7.5.11 still uses PHP 7.4:

PHP_URL=https://www.php.net/distributions/php-7.4.33.tar.xz

Can you please regenerate the Docker image.

[antonmedv]

will do

[alexgit2k]

Can confirm that Deployer Docker image v7.5.12 is now running under PHP 8.3.17.
Thank you very much!