We have a locally deployed instance of Gitlab, where at the time we cannot afford to have a GitLab Runner to run CI/CD pipelines.
Is it possible to use GitLab Pages without CI/CD? E.g. is it possible to manually prepare the HTML-content, put it in the public folder in the root and make it accessible?
I assume you don't want to use GitLab shared runner which costs you and CI minutes limits.
Refer to this gitlab-ci.yaml for making HTML content available https://gitlab.com/pages/plain-html/-/blob/master/.gitlab-ci.yml
Here is the known limitations: https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/commands/#limitations-of-gitlab-runner-exec
Pages are directly managed by Gitlab so running locally won't affect the page's state.
Install GitLab runner on your machine and register as a runner, instructions can be found at Settings->CI/CD->Runners->Specific runner Enable it for your project or group.
I use my personal machine gitlab-runner to execute CI jobs that aren't counted towards CI minutes.
