Pulling a Windows Docker image on GitLab.com Shared Windows Runner (beta) takes longer than the 1h runner timeout

Labels:

• Shared Runners::Windows
• group::runner

I'm using the Windows Shared Runners (beta) on GitLab.com. Since it's not possible to use the image keyword, I'm using docker run ... <image> ... instead. The pull of the image however takes more than the allowed MaximumTimeout = 3600.

This is one of the Dockerfiles:

REPOSITORY                               TAG                                      IMAGE ID            CREATED             SIZE
graphviz/graphviz                        windows-x64                              f0d57855fc46        6 hours ago         16.2GB

# escape=`

FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/framework/sdk:4.8-windowsservercore-ltsc2019

# Restore the default Windows shell for correct batch processing.
SHELL ["cmd", "/S", "/C"]

# Chocolatey
ADD https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1 C:\TEMP\install.ps1

RUN powershell C:\TEMP\install.ps1 -Wait `
&& del C:\TEMP\install.ps1

# choco-cleaner
RUN choco install --no-progress -y choco-cleaner `
&& choco-cleaner

# VCTools
RUN choco install -y visualstudio2019-workload-vctools `
&& choco-cleaner

# awk
RUN choco install --no-progress -y gawk `
&& choco-cleaner

# Bison & Flex
RUN choco install --no-progress -y winflexbison3 `
&& choco-cleaner

# git
RUN choco install --no-progress -y git `
&& choco-cleaner

# perl
RUN choco install --no-progress -y activeperl `
&& choco-cleaner

# grep
RUN choco install --no-progress -y grep `
&& choco-cleaner

# vcpkg (including CMake)
RUN git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg.git `
&& cd vcpkg `
&& bootstrap-vcpkg.bat -disableMetrics

# RxSpencer
RUN vcpkg\vcpkg install --clean-after-build rxspencer:x64-windows

# unzip
RUN choco install --no-progress -y unzip `
&& choco-cleaner

# wget
RUN choco install --no-progress -y wget `
&& choco-cleaner

RUN mkdir libtool `
&& cd libtool `
&& wget https://master.dl.sourceforge.net/project/gnuwin32/libtool/1.5.28/libtool-1.5.26-lib.zip `
&& unzip libtool*.zip `
&& del libtool*.zip `
&& cd ..

# zlib
RUN vcpkg\vcpkg install --clean-after-build zlib:x64-windows

# Setup VCTools
ENTRYPOINT ["C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2019\\BuildTools\\Common7\\Tools\\VsDevCmd.bat", "&&", "powershell.exe", "-NoLogo", "-ExecutionPolicy", "Bypass"]

My .gitlab-ci.yml:

stages:
    - build

.build_template: &windows_build_definition
    stage: build
    tags:
        - windows
        - shared-windows
        - windows-1809
    script:
        - pwd
        - dir
        - dir "env:"
        - systeminfo
        - docker --version
        - $dir="$pwd"
        - docker run --rm --mount type=bind,source=$dir,target=C:/graphviz --workdir "C:\graphviz" graphviz/graphviz:$Env:image "ci\build.bat" $Env:build_system $Env:configuration $Env:platform
    timeout: 3h

windows-cmake-Win32-release-build:
    <<: *windows_build_definition
    before_script:
        - $Env:image = "windows-x86"
        - $Env:platform = "Win32"
        - $Env:configuration = "Release"
        - $Env:build_system = "cmake"

windows-cmake-Win32-debug-build:
    <<: *windows_build_definition
    before_script:
        - $Env:image = "windows-x86"
        - $Env:platform = "Win32"
        - $Env:configuration = "Debug"
        - $Env:build_system = "cmake"

windows-cmake-x64-release-build:
    <<: *windows_build_definition
    before_script:
        - $Env:image = "windows-x64"
        - $Env:platform = "x64"
        - $Env:configuration = "Release"
        - $Env:build_system = "cmake"

windows-cmake-x64-debug-build:
    <<: *windows_build_definition
    before_script:
        - $Env:image = "windows-x64"
        - $Env:platform = "x64"
        - $Env:configuration = "Debug"
        - $Env:build_system = "cmake"

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