Ytukyg

I am developing a simple console application with .NET Core 2.
Its purpose is to clean up a Database once per day.
This means the application does never stop after once started.

This application is part of Solution where also a .NET Core Rest API lives, to access the same database so its also part of the same Gitlab repository.

Now i want to publish and start the console app via the existing Continuous Integration pipelines of the repo. (CI pipeline is working perfectly for the REST Api project)

Building, testing and publishing works perfectly, the only problem is running the console application.

I tried a few attempts by now, the outcome is always, that the pipeline gets stuck after the application startet. I guess it is like that because it waits till the app finishes, what never happens.

I tried by now:

1. 
   

   starting the app directly in the gitlab_ci.yml
   
   gitlab_ci.yml:

   
   
   

   -cd C:publishFolder
   
   -DB_Cleaner.exe
   
   

   
   
   

   -> The application is executed directly in the Runner console
   
   gitlab_ci.yml:

   
   
   

   -cd C:publishFolder
   
   -start cmd.exe /k DB_Cleaner.exe
   
   

   
   
   

   -> The runner is stuck till it got canceled by timeout

   
   


2. 
   

   Running a bash or powershell script to run the application
   
   gitlab_ci.yml:

   
   
   

   -cd C:ScriptFolder
   
   -runDBCleaner.cmd  
   
   

   
   
   

   runDBCleaner.cmd:

   
   
   

   -cd C:publishFolder
   
   -start cmd.exe /k DB_Cleaner.exe
   
   

   
   

-> The runner is stuck till it got canceled by timeout

Runner is running on a Win-64 virtual machine.

Is there a way to start the application to run Independent from the gitlab-CI-Runner?