using gitlab CI/CD to deploy sonarr and others

when i first got into this i was manually installing all this stuff, this is back when it was all python based like sickrage, and couchpotato. eventually i found sonarr, and radarr, and deployed the containers manually.

running my own gitlab i knew that i could just set it up so it would deploy things on its own.

sonarr CI/CD

with this new found knowledge i create a pipeline to deploy everything. this post covers how gitlab deploys sonarr in my setup. currently i have two deployments of sonarr, one for 4k and one for standard. same with radarr.





examples:

i use the linuxserver container for sonarr so i can specify the user i want it to run as. with a little google you can find the github repo its built on. clone it into your gitlab.

once you have your repo you'll need to create a docker-compose file. mine looks something like this.

	version: '3'
	services:
	sonarr:
	image: linuxserver/sonarr
	container_name: sonarr
	restart: always
	ports:
	- zerotierip:8989:8989
	volumes:
	- /store/bob/sonarr:/config
	- /store/media/Television:/tv
	- /store/queue:/queue
	- /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
	environment:
	PUID: 1002
	PGID: 1002
	TZ: UTC

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with this you should be able to clone your repo and run docker-compose up

now on with gitlab, since we now are building our own images ( could just use the docker hub one) we need to have a few different stages.

	image: gitlab.thisdomain.com:8443/docker/docker-compose
	variables:
	CONTAINER_IMAGE: gitlab.thisdomain.com:8443/$CI_PROJECT_PATH
	IMAGE_TAG: $CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE:latest
	DOCKER_DRIVER: overlay2
	before_script:
	- docker login -u gitlab-ci-token -p $CI_JOB_TOKEN $CI_REGISTRY
	stages:
	- build
	- release
	- cleanup
	- deploy
	build:
	stage: build
	script:
	- docker pull $IMAGE_TAG || true
	- docker build --cache-from $IMAGE_TAG --tag $IMAGE_TAG .
	release:
	stage: release
	script:
	- docker push $CONTAINER_IMAGE
	cleanup:
	stage: cleanup
	when: always
	script:
	- docker-compose kill
	- docker-compose rm -fv --all
	- docker-compose down --remove-orphans --rmi local
	deploy-container:
	stage: deploy
	script:
	- export DOCKER_HOST=tcp://zerotierip:2375
	- docker-compose down
	- docker-compose pull
	- docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml up -d

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here you can see that it builds, releases, does some cleanup (which doesn't do anything i think) and then sets the docker host and deploys the container to the remote host.

i chose not to group containers together as i could upgrade one without restarting the others.

if you want to deploy multiples of the same container like i do for sonarr, or resilio your deploy looks like like this.

	deploy-FO:
	stage: deploy
	script:
	- export DOCKER_HOST=tcp://FOzerotier:2375
	- docker-compose down
	- docker-compose pull
	- docker-compose -f docker-compose-FO.yml up -d

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you can specify the host, and the file you want, so just clone your docker-compose file and name one for each, and add multiple deploy stages.

until next time.