Gitlab CI doesn't work with private image in Gitlab Registry

Question

I have an image gitlab.com/arxeiss/deployer and project gitlab.com/arxeiss/my-project with .gitlab-ci.yml file:

deploy:
  image: registry.gitlab.com/arxeiss/deployer
  stage: build

When I push to origin, pipeline works and image is pulled successfully. But when someone else pushes, who doesn't have access to deployer this error is thrown: Error response from daemon: pull access denied for registry.gitlab.com/arxeiss/deployer, repository does not exist or may require 'docker login'

I have found in Documentation that I need DOCKER_AUTH_CONFIG and the way how to set it up . But that means, I have to put auth token from docker login and ~/.docker/config.json into CI/CD Variables.

But that is assigned to my account. So someone can use it and if I reset password etc. it stops working. Is there different way how to make it work?

Answer 1

If you don't want to use your regular credentials, you can use a personal access token or deploy token instead - see here .

That way it'll still work if you change your password and, as a bonus, you can revoke it without changing your regular password.