GitLab runner on Windows with bash shell on windows contianer on Docker

At times, you may run browser testing across different platform/environments as a part of your pipeline.

To minimize the time for your testing, you may need to use a consistent shell scripting language across different platforms.

This is one approach to fix this, which allows one to use bash shell on Windows with shell executor - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/merge_requests/3503. Alternatively, you can use pwsh across the board.


If you intend to use docker-windows executor you will need a gitlab helper container image with bash support.  Build one for yourself - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/merge_requests/3779 .


To build the application image, I would use windowscore or windowsserver(for GUI application) base image. To manage/install applications I would use choco

 

FROM mcr.microsoft.com/powershell:lts-windowsserver-ltsc2022

ARGS CHROME_VERSION=108.0.5359.99

RUN choco install -y google-chrome-stable --version $Env:CHROME_VERSION


Once done, update the runner config to use this helper image.




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