Gitlab Release

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Description

The Gitlab "release" plugin allows to manipulate Gitlab releases.

source

When used as a "source", the Gitlab release plugin allows to get a Gitlab Release tag according the version filter rule provided.

condition

When used as a "condition". the Gitlab release plugin allows to test that specific Gitlab Release tag exist.

target

When used a "target", the Gitlab release plugin Using the gitlab/release as a "target" ensures that a Gitlab release exists.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
commitish	string	[T] Commitish defines the commit-ish such as `main`
description	string	[T] Description defines if the new release description
draft	boolean	[T] Draft defines if the release is a draft release
owner	string	[S][C][T] Owner specifies repository owner
prerelease	boolean	[T] Prerelease defines if the release is a pre-release release
repository	string	[S][C][T]Repository specifies the name of a repository for a specific owner
tag	string	[C][T] Tag defines the GitLab release tag.
title	string	[T] Title defines the GitLab release title.
token	string	“token” defines the credential used to authenticate with GitLab remark: A token is a sensitive information, it’s recommended to not set this value directly in the configuration file but to use an environment variable or a SOPS file. The value can be set to `{{ requiredEnv "GITLAB_TOKEN"}}` to retrieve the token from the environment variable `GITLAB_TOKEN` or `{{ .gitlab.token }}` to retrieve the token from a SOPS file. `For more information, about a SOPS file, please refer to the following documentation:` https://github.com/getsops/sops
url	string	“url” defines the GitLab url to interact with default: “gitlab.com”
username	string	“username” defines the username used to authenticate with GitLab
versionfilter	object	[S] VersionFilter provides parameters to specify version pattern and its type like regex, semver, or just latest.
kind	string	specifies the version kind such as semver, regex, or latest
pattern	string	specifies the version pattern according the version kind for semver, it is a semver constraint for regex, it is a regex pattern for time, it is a date format
regex	string	specifies the regex pattern, used for regex/semver and regex/time. Output of the first capture group will be used.
replaceall	object	replaceAll applies a regex replacement to version strings before filtering. This is useful for transforming versions (e.g., curl-8_15_0 to curl-8.15.0) before regex extraction.
strict	boolean	strict enforce strict versioning rule. Only used for semantic versioning at this time

Example

# updatecli.yaml
name: Show Gitlab release usage

sources:
  default:
    name: Retrieve latest release matching versionfilter rule
    kind: gitlab/release
    spec:
      # url default to gitlab.com if unset
      # url: "gitlab.com"
      owner: olblak
      repository: updatecli
      versionfilter:
        kind: semver
        pattern: "~0"

conditions:
  default:
    name: Test that release "0.0.2" exist
    kind: gitlab/release
    spec:
      # url default to gitlab.com if unset
      # url: "gitlab.com"
      owner: olblak
      repository: updatecli
      tag: "0.2.0"
  sourcedefault:
    name: Test that release retrieved from source 'default' exist
    kind: gitlab/release
    sourceid: default
    spec:
      # url default to gitlab.com if unset
      # url: "gitlab.com"
      owner: olblak
      repository: updatecli

targets:
  default:
    name: "Ensure release 0.0.1 from branch main exist"
    kind: gitlab/release
    spec:
      # url default to gitlab.com if unset
      # url: "gitlab.com"
      owner: olblak
      repository: updatecli
      commitish: main
      token: xxx
      tag: "0.0.1"
  sourcedefault:
    name: "Ensure release where tag is retrieved from source 'default' from branch main exist"
    kind: gitlab/release
    sourceid: default
    spec:
      # url default to gitlab.com if unset
      # url: "gitlab.com"
      owner: olblak
      repository: updatecli-test
      token: xxx
      commitish: main