Commit 6c88a9df authored by Achilleas Pipinellis's avatar Achilleas Pipinellis

Add more info on the new CI permissions model

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......@@ -87,20 +87,6 @@ your Runners in the most possible secure way, by avoiding the following:
By using an insecure GitLab Runner configuration, you allow the rogue developers
to steal the tokens of other builds.
## Debugging problems
With the new permission model in place, there may be times that your build will
fail. This is most likely because your project tries to access other project's
sources, and you don't have the appropriate permissions. In the build log look
for information about 403 or forbidden access messages
As an Administrator, you can verify that the user is a member of the group or
project they're trying to have access to, and you can impersonate the user to
retry the failing build in order to verify that everything is correct.
You need to make sure that your installation has HTTPS cloning enabled.
HTTPS support is required by GitLab CI to clone all sources.
## Build triggers
[Build triggers][triggers] do not support the new permission model.
......@@ -152,17 +138,46 @@ with GitLab 8.12.
## Making use of the new CI build permissions model
With the new build permission model, there is now an easy way to access all
With the new build permissions model, there is now an easy way to access all
dependent source code in a project. That way, we can:
1. Access a project's Git submodules
1. Access private container images
1. Access project's and submodule LFS objects
Let's see how that works with Git submodules and private Docker images hosted on
Below you can see the prerequisites needed to make use of the new permissions
model and how that works with Git submodules and private Docker images hosted on
the container registry.
## Git submodules
### Prerequisites to use the new permissions model
With the new permissions model in place, there may be times that your build will
fail. This is most likely because your project tries to access other project's
sources, and you don't have the appropriate permissions. In the build log look
for information about 403 or forbidden access messages.
In short here's what you need to do should you encounter any issues.
As an administrator:
- **500 errors**: You will need to update [GitLab Workhorse][workhorse] to at
least 0.8.2. This is done automatically for Omnibus installations, you need to
check manually for installations from source.
- **500 errors**: Check if you have another web proxy sitting in front of NGINX (HAProxy,
Apache, etc.). It might be a good idea to let GitLab use the internal NGINX
web server and not disable it completely. See [this comment][comment] for an
example.
- **403 errors**: You need to make sure that your installation has [HTTP(S)
cloning enabled][https]. HTTP(S) support is now a **requirement** by GitLab CI
to clone all sources.
As a user:
- Make sure you are a member of the group or project you're trying to have
access to. As an Administrator, you can verify that by impersonating the user
and retry the failing build in order to verify that everything is correct.
### Git submodules
>
It often happens that while working on one project, you need to use another
......@@ -286,7 +301,10 @@ test:
- docker run $CI_REGISTRY/group/other-project:latest
```
[git-scm]: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Submodules
[build permissions]: ../permissions.md#builds-permissions
[comment]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/22484#note_16648302
[ext]: ../permissions.md#external-users
[git-scm]: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Submodules
[https]: ../admin_area/settings/visibility_and_access_controls.md#enabled-git-access-protocols
[triggers]: ../../ci/triggers/README.md
[workhorse]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-workhorse
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