skaffold doesn't work from gitlab-runner user

[FreddieMcHeart]

Expected behavior

Actual behavior

Information

• Skaffold version: v1.22.0
• Operating system: ubuntu 20.04
• Installed via: skaffold.dev
• Contents of skaffold.yaml:

apiVersion: skaffold/v2beta14
kind: Config
metadata:
  name: cryptobot
profiles:
  - name: stage
    build:
      artifacts:
        - image: my-repo/bot
          docker:
            dockerfile: Dockerfile
            noCache: false
      local: {}
      tagPolicy:
        gitCommit:
          variant: AbbrevTreeSha
          prefix: v.alfa.2.
    deploy:
      kubectl:
        manifests:
          - yamles/*.yaml

Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. Using a gitlab CI
2. .gitlab-ci.yml

stages:
  - build
#  - deploy

Build and Publish to Stage:
  stage: build
  tags: [skaffold]
  script:
    - ls -al
    - skaffold run -p stage
  only:
    - RC

3. After starting, this pipeline had an error:

parsing skaffold config: failed to apply profiles to config "cryptobot" defined in file "/home/gitlab-runner/builds/ZqTVFjA1/0/high-school-prod/cryptobot/skaffold.yaml". There's an issue with one of the profiles defined in config "cryptobot" in file "/home/gitlab-runner/builds/ZqTVFjA1/0/high-school-prod/cryptobot/skaffold.yaml"; refer to the documentation on how to author valid profiles: https://skaffold.dev/docs/environment/profiles/.

root@Skaffold:~# groups gitlab-runner gitlab-runner : gitlab-runner sudo docker
users permissions

If I go to the gitlab-runner home dir and then to project dir ~/builds/ZqTVFjA1/0/high-school-prod/cryptobot and start any skaffold command like skaffold run -p stage or skaffold build -p stage I have the error that i wrote above.

dir contents

-rw-rw-r--  1 gitlab-runner gitlab-runner   81 Apr 22 22:56 .dockerignore
drwxrwxr-x  5 gitlab-runner gitlab-runner 4096 Apr 23 14:51 .git
-rw-rw-r--  1 gitlab-runner gitlab-runner  301 Apr 21 21:53 .gitignore
-rw-rw-r--  1 gitlab-runner gitlab-runner  160 Apr 22 22:16 .gitlab-ci.yml
-rw-rw-r--  1 gitlab-runner gitlab-runner  455 Apr 23 14:51 Dockerfile
-rw-rw-r--  1 gitlab-runner gitlab-runner  156 Apr 21 21:53 README.md
drwxrwxr-x  2 gitlab-runner gitlab-runner 4096 Apr 21 21:53 aggregation
drwxrwxr-x  2 gitlab-runner gitlab-runner 4096 Apr 21 21:53 bot
-rw-rw-r--  1 gitlab-runner gitlab-runner   10 Apr 21 21:53 change-generator.md
drwxrwxr-x  2 gitlab-runner gitlab-runner 4096 Apr 22 22:00 elastic
drwxrwxr-x  2 gitlab-runner gitlab-runner 4096 Apr 21 21:53 fetchers
-rw-rw-r--  1 gitlab-runner gitlab-runner  143 Apr 21 21:53 go.mod
-rw-rw-r--  1 gitlab-runner gitlab-runner 1044 Apr 21 21:53 go.sum
drwxrwxr-x  2 gitlab-runner gitlab-runner 4096 Apr 21 21:53 logic
-rw-rw-r--  1 gitlab-runner gitlab-runner  351 Apr 21 21:53 main.go
drwxrwxr-x  2 gitlab-runner gitlab-runner 4096 Apr 21 21:53 model
-rw-rw-r--  1 gitlab-runner gitlab-runner  459 Apr 22 22:16 skaffold.yaml
drwxrwxr-x  2 gitlab-runner gitlab-runner 4096 Apr 21 21:53 utils
drwxrwxr-x  2 gitlab-runner gitlab-runner 4096 Apr 23 14:51 yamles

[briandealwis]

Hmm that file seems to work fine as is. But this comment string is odd:

      tagPolicy: #   Ah6)^kK,Hbn;J9E birzha

It suggests to me that the actual file content might be different — that it was possibly sanitized when you pasted the contents here.

If I go to the gitlab-runner home dir and then ...

Could you try skaffold fix? I find that reports problematic lines.

[FreddieMcHeart]

I wrote that its work if I start skaffold run -p stage by root.

root@Skaffold:/home/gitlab-runner/builds/ZqTVFjA1/0/high-school-prod/cryptobot# skaffold run -p stage
Generating tags...
 - freddiemcheart/crypto-bot -> freddiemcheart/crypto-bot:v.alfa.2.d7fdb18
Checking cache...
 - freddiemcheart/crypto-bot: Not found. Building
Starting build...
Building [freddiemcheart/crypto-bot]...
Sending build context to Docker daemon  230.9kB
Step 1/16 : FROM golang:buster AS builder
 ---> cbf5edf38f6b

But if I do that by gitlab-runner user, I had an error:

gitlab-runner@Skaffold:~/builds/ZqTVFjA1/0/high-school-prod/cryptobot$ skaffold run -p stage
parsing skaffold config: failed to apply profiles to config "cryptobot" defined in file "/home/gitlab-runner/builds/ZqTVFjA1/0/high-school-prod/cryptobot/skaffold.yaml". There's an issue with one of the profiles defined in config "cryptobot" in file "/home/gitlab-runner/builds/ZqTVFjA1/0/high-school-prod/cryptobot/skaffold.yaml"; refer to the documentation on how to author valid profiles: https://skaffold.dev/docs/environment/profiles/.

skaffold fix by root and gitlab-runner:

gitlab-runner@Skaffold:~/builds/ZqTVFjA1/0/high-school-prod/cryptobot$ skaffold fix
config is already version skaffold/v2beta14

root@Skaffold:/home/gitlab-runner/builds/ZqTVFjA1/0/high-school-prod/cryptobot# skaffold fix
config is already version skaffold/v2beta14

[FreddieMcHeart]

I download last commit version and I pulled the latest version of skaffold and now the error message is explicit so I figured out what was the problem. Thank you for your timely help.

I`m closing the issue

[briandealwis]

I’m sorry @FreddieMcHeart — I didn’t realize that it worked as for. Could you share what the error was? I’m puzzled as to how permissions may have been a factor here.