Technical Investigation: Code Quality template without DinD

Topic to Evaluate

If we were able to run the code quality template without a requirement of running on the Docker-in-docker runners, we would solve several problems:

• For security reasons, customers on self-hosted instances or on dot com with their own runners may disable the privileged option on their runners
• The code quality job startup time can be slow, when using DinD (#233001 (closed))
• (Potentially) The code quality job is difficult to configure for runners that are spun up in Kubernetes (#29976 (comment 421638881))

#9784 (closed)

Tasks to Evaluate

• Determine feasibility of the feature
• Create issue for implementation or update existing implementation issue description with implementation proposal
• Set weight on implementation issue
• If weight is greater than 5, break issue into smaller issues
• Add task
• Add task

Risks and Implementation Considerations

It may not be possible to generate the code climate report without running their distributable docker image.

Proposal

• Create documentation for CodeQuality starting from this draft that guides users on setting up a private runner for CodeQuality jobs. !49788 (merged)
• Create a follow-up issue to discuss the efficiency of CodeQuality jobs on gitlab.com shared runners. #292984 (closed)