Cannot override docker user while using image renovatebot/renovate

[ylazakovich]

What would you like help with?

I think I found a bug

How are you running Renovate?

Self-hosted

If you're self-hosting Renovate, tell us which platform (GitHub, GitLab, etc) and which version of Renovate.

gitlab
image: ghcr.io/renovatebot/renovate:38.26.0

Please tell us more about your question or problem

I have used GitLab bot example from documentation:
https://docs.renovatebot.com/examples/self-hosting/#gitlab-cicd-pipeline

As I understand currently we faced user conflict while running image on gitlab runners

• I tried to used config.js and override "dockerUser": "1000:my_user_group_id" (I know what group I should use here)
  but

1. console log returned 1000:0 as default but I expect overrided group
2. log file still don't exist
3. if use RENOVATE_BASE_DIR will return ERROR about mkdir folder
   All these point refer to issue with dockerUser

Also I tried to use
1)RENOVATE_DOCKER_USER: "1000:my_user_group_id"

export RENOVATE_DOCKER_USER="$(id -u):my_user_group_id"

2)RENOVATE_BINARY_SOURCE : docker
3)RENOVATE_DOCKER_CLI_OPTIONS: --group-add my_user_group_id

Finally I'm calling command

echo user - "$(id -u):$(id -g)" # 1000:0 but expect 1000:my_user_group_id
whoami # ubuntu

Would you please provide any information...

1. Is dockerUser work ?
2. Is it possible to resolve this conflict without changing config of gitlab runners ?
3. Is it possible to resolve this conflict while running image over gitlab ?

• I mean without direct call docker run...

Current what I can do, it it just disable BASE_DIR and LOG_FILE

• but I want to use these features

Logs (if relevant)

No response

[ylazakovich]

but I'm not sure that I'm exactly understand issue which I faced

could you please provide me answer on one question:

I have used GitLab bot example from documentation:
https://docs.renovatebot.com/examples/self-hosting/#gitlab-cicd-pipeline

If I run this example and I don't see log file, does it mean that it is a conflict in user ? Or might be there is other issue ?

WARNING: renovate-log.ndjson: no matching files. Ensure that the artifact path is relative to the working directory (/builds/xxx/xxx)
ERROR: No files to upload

[viceice]

you should start here

https://gitlab.com/renovate-bot/renovate-runner/-/blob/main/README.md#renovate-runner