gitlab-release 2.5

Utility for use in gitlab ci to upload files (from build) to the current projects release (tag)

This python utility is used to upload specific release files from a gitlab-ci build to the tag release page on gitlab.

This allows a file or (generated) zip with arbitrary structure to be added to a release for convenient download, as opposed to the artifacts which are somewhat constrained to always be zipped with a folder structure taken directly from the filesystem.

It can be used in a gitlab-ci.yml stage like:

release:
  stage: release
  image: python3
  script:
    - pip3 install gitlab_release
    - python3 -m gitlab_release "$PRIVATE_TOKEN" *.zip
  only:
    - tags

Or if you want to bundle a bunch of files into a zip and upload that

release:
  stage: release
  image: python3
  script:
    - pip3 install gitlab_release
    - python3 -m gitlab_release --zip "release-${CI_COMMIT_TAG}.zip" "$PRIVATE_TOKEN" *
  only:
    - tags

This tool requires you to put a copy of a PRIVATE_TOKEN in a secret CI variable for the project to give it access to post the files back to the project

You can use your personal token from https://gitlab.com/profile/account

Or better, create a new Personal Access Token for this and use that: https://gitlab.com/profile/personal_access_tokens

Make sure you enable API access when creating the token. The label you use is just for you to remeber what it’s for, it wont affeect operation.

Add it to a secret variable called PRIVATE_TOKEN for the project you’re building at https://gitlab.com/<user>/<project>/settings/ci_cd

On any tagged release the files specified in the glob will then be availble on the Tags tab of your project.

Usage

usage: gitlab_release [-h] [--server SERVER] [--project_id PROJECT_ID]
                     [--release_tag RELEASE_TAG] [--timeout TIMEOUT]
                     [--ignore_cert] [--zip ZIP]
                     [--description DESCRIPTION]
                     private_token files [files ...]

positional arguments
private_token	login token with permissions to commit to repo
files	file names and/or globs of files to upload

optional arguments
–server SERVER	url of gitlab server or $CI_PROJECT_URL
–project_id PROJECT_ID	Unique id of project, available in Project Settings/General or $CI_PROJECT_ID
–release_tag RELEASE_TAG	Tag to upload files against or $CI_BUILD_TAG
–timeout TIMEOUT	Timeout for http requests
–ignore_cert	Ignore ssl certificate failures
–zip ZIP	Add all globbed files to provided zip name and upload that
–description DESCRIPTION	Extra text to add to the release description
-h, –help	show this help message and exit