how to enable gitlab runner to use local docker images
open the file config.toml in /etc/gitlab-runner using sudo
and add the follwoing line to the docker runner
pull_policy = "if-not-present"
Below is an example of config.toml I have on my machine
$ sudo vi /etc/gitlab-runner/config.toml
concurrent = 1
check_interval = 0
[session_server]
session_timeout = 1800
[[runners]]
name = "docker_dd_online"
url = "https://gitlab.com/"
token = "**********"
executor = "docker"
[runners.custom_build_dir]
[runners.cache]
[runners.cache.s3]
[runners.cache.gcs]
[runners.cache.azure]
[runners.docker]
tls_verify = false
image = "local_docker_image:latest"
privileged = false
disable_entrypoint_overwrite = false
oom_kill_disable = false
disable_cache = false
volumes = ["/cache"]
shm_size = 0
pull_policy = "if-not-present"