Configure Gitlab

This section discusses how you can configure Gitlab to integrate with Duplo

Prerequisites

To use GitLab CI/CD, you need to:

• Deploy the application with DuploCloud as a Service and test that it works as expected.

GitLab CI/CD is recommended only for upgrades of container images and to run tests that can be written to run either before or after.

Configuring GitLab

In order to call a DuploCloud API from Gitlab, you will need to obtain an API token.

pageAPI tokens

The basic steps are:

1. (Recommended) Create a "service account" user in DuploCloud that will own the API token.

2. Give the DuploCloud user access to the desired tenant. See adding tenants to a user.

3. Create an API token for that user. See creating API Tokens.

4. Add a Gitlab Variable DUPLO_TOKEN that contains the DuploCloud API token.

5. Add another Gitlab variable DOCKERHUB_PASSWORD that contains DockerHub password.

Note: A 'service account' user in DuploCloud is just a user whose user name is not an email address, such as gitlab-bot or my-api-user. These users are not able to log in.

pageTenant access for users

The rest of this documentation will assume that you named the Gitlab repository secret DUPLO_TOKEN.