Automation of the gitlab variable configuration

[Guits32]

To simplify my job with your awesome tool (thank a lot guys!) I develop a little bash script. The goal is to retrieve gitlab CI/CD variables and store them in the gitlab-ci-local config. Here is the usage:

$ - gcl-config 
Usage:       gcl-config
Version:     1.0
Description: Add to "gitlab-ci-local" configuration the remote gitlab CI/CD variables of a specific group/project (you can find the generated configuration file here - ~/.gitlab-ci-local/variables.yml)
Examples:
  gcl-config -p project_id      : retrieve CI variables assciated to this project and update gitlab-ci-local config
  gcl-config -g group_id        : retrieve CI variables assciated to this group and update gitlab-ci-local config

Options:
  -h|--help                               : Display this help message
  -v|--verbose                         : Display DEBUG log messages
  -p|--project                          : Define the id of the project to search on
  -g|--group                            : Define the id of the group to search on
  -s|--show-config                 : print the current gitlab-ci-local config

The idea is quite simple: when I work on a CI I need the variables of the project itself and the variables of the parent groups. To do this, I run gcl-config specifying whether it is a -p project or a -g group and give it the id. Next, the script fetches the gitlab API to retrieve the CI/CD variables, and finally refactors the JSON API response to match the gitlab-ci-local yaml configuration.

I know it's bash, and you are developing this tool in TS, but if you are interrested in any way let me know, and I will share my code.

[firecow]

You need maintainer on the group and project you want variables from right?

[Guits32]

Yes right

[firecow]

Hmmm...

I'm not sure I like the idea of devs fetching potential stage/prod secrets from a groups or projects variables.

But lets keep this script here in case someone wants to develop like this 😁

[Guits32]

Here it is: gcl-config.zip

There is one specific config which is not dynamic: the gitlab domain.

The variable is defined in _config.sh line 3, you can change it to feet your needs.