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gitlab-plugin
This plugin emulates Jenkins as a GitlabCI Web Service to be used with GitlabHQ.
Help Needed
- We are seeking help to maintain and improve this plugin. This includes keeping up a Changelog, releasing builds, reviewing merge requests, etc. If you are interested, please post to the Jenkins Developers list (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/jenkinsci-dev) or ping autojack (@omehegan on Github) in #jenkins on irc.freenode.org IRC and ask for commit access.
Supported GitLab versions
- 7.14.x
Unsupported GitLab versions
- 8.0.x - in this version, GitLab folded the GitLabCI functionality into core GitLab, and in doing so broke the ability for the plugin to give build status to GitLab. Jenkins build status will never work with GitLab 8.0.x!
- 8.1.x - in this version, GitLab created a new public API to interface with external CI services like Jenkins. This plugin will be updated to support the new API; that work is incomplete at this time. See https://github.com/jenkinsci/gitlab-plugin/pull/127 for status.
Current Supported GitLabCI Functions
/project/PROJECT_NAME/builds/COMMIT_SHA1/status.json
(used for Merge Request pages) returns build result for Merge Request build withCOMMIT_SHA1
as last commit/project/PROJECT_NAME/builds/status.png?ref=BRANCH_NAME
returns build status icon for latest build forBRANCH_NAME
/project/PROJECT_NAME/builds/status.png?sha1=COMMIT_SHA1
returns build status icon for latest build forCOMMIT_SHA1
as last commit/project/PROJECT_NAME/builds/COMMIT_SHA1
redirects to build page of the last build containingCOMMIT_SHA1
as last commit/project/PROJECT_NAME/commits/COMMIT_SHA1
redirects to build page of the last build containingCOMMIT_SHA1
as last commit/project/PROJECT_NAME?ref=BRANCH_NAME
redirects to build page of the last build forBRANCH_NAME
/project/PROJECT_NAME
triggers a build, type (Merge Request or Push) depending on payload
Configuring access to Gitlab
Optionally, the plugin communicates with the Gitlab server in order to fetch additional information. At this moment, this information is limited to fetching the source project of a Merge Request, in order to support merging from forked repositories.
To enable this functionality, a user should be set up on Gitlab, with adequate permissions to access the repository. On the global configuration screen, supply the gitlab host url http://your.gitlab.server
and the API token of the user of choice.
Using it With A Job
- Create a new job by going to New Job
- Set the Project Name to whatever you like
- In the Source Code Management section:
- Click Git
- Enter your Repository URL (e.g.:
git@your.gitlab.server:group/repo_name.git
)- In the Advanced settings, set its Name to
origin
- In the Advanced settings, set its Name to
- To be able to merge from forked repositories:
Note: this requires configuring communication to the Gitlab server- Add a second repository with:
- URL:
${gitlabSourceRepoURL}
- Name (in Advanced):
${gitlabSourceRepoName}
- URL:
- Add a second repository with:
- In Branch Specifier enter:
- For single-repository setups:
origin/${gitlabSourceBranch}
- For forked repository setups:
${gitlabSourceRepoName}/${gitlabSourceBranch}
- For single-repository setups:
- In Additional Behaviours:
- Click the Add drop-down button.
- Select Merge before build from the drop-down.
- Set *Name of the repository" to
origin
- Set Branch to merge as
${gitlabTargetBranch}
- In the Build Triggers section:
- Check the
Build when a change is pushed to GitLab.
- Use the check boxes to trigger builds on Push and/or Merge Request events
- Optionally enable building open merge requests again after a push to the source branch.
- Check the
- Configure any other pre build, build or post build actions as necessary
- Click Save to preserve your changes in Jenkins.
GitLab Configuration (≥ 8.0)
- In GitLab go to you primary repository's project Settings
- Click on Web Hooks
- Add a Web Hook for Merge Request Events and Push Events to
http://JENKINS_URL/project/PROJECT_NAME
- Add a Web Hook for Merge Request Events and Push Events to
- Click on Web Hooks
If you plan to use forked repositories, you will need to enable the GitLab CI integration on each fork.
- Go to the Settings page in each developer's fork
- Click on Services
- Click on Web Hooks
- Add a Web Hook for Merge Request Events and Push Events to
http://JENKINS_URL/project/PROJECT_NAME
Note: You do not need to select any "Trigger Events" as the Web Hook for Merge Request Events will alert Jenkins.
- Add a Web Hook for Merge Request Events and Push Events to
- Click on Web Hooks
GitLab Configuration (≥ 8.1)
GitLab 8.1 uses the same configuration as GitLab 8.0
- GitLab 8.1 has implemented a commit status api. To enable this check the
Use GitLab CI features
under the project settings.
GitLab Configuration (< 8.0)
- In GitLab go to you primary repository's project Settings
- Click on Services
- Click on GitLab CI
- Check the Active checkbox
- For Token put any random string (This is not yet functioning)
- For Project URL put
http://JENKINS_URL/project/PROJECT_NAME
- Click Save
- Click on Web Hooks
- Add a Web Hook for Merge Request Events to
http://JENKINS_URL/project/PROJECT_NAME
Note: GitLab for some reason does not send a merge request event with the GitLab Service.
- Add a Web Hook for Merge Request Events to
If you plan to use forked repositories, you will need to enable the GitLab CI integration on each fork.
- Go to the Settings page in each developer's fork
- Click on Services
- Click on GitLab CI
- Check the Active checkbox
- For Token put any random string (This is not yet functioning)
- For Project URL put
http://JENKINS_URL/project/PROJECT_NAME
- Click Save
Note: You do not need to select any "Trigger Events" as the Web Hook for Merge Request Events will alert Jenkins.
- Click on GitLab CI
Branch filtering
Triggers from push events may be filtered based on the branch name, i.e. the build will only be allowed for selected branches. On the project configuration page, a list of all branches on the remote repository is displayed under Build when a change is pushed to GitLab.
. It is possible to select multiple branches by holding Ctrl and clicking.
This functionality requires accessing the Gitlab server (see above) and for the time being also a git repository url already saved in the project configuration. In other words, when creating a new project, the configuration needs to be saved once before being able to select the allowed branches. For Workflow jobs, the configuration must be saved and the job must be run once before the list is populated. For existing projects, all branches are allowed to push by default.
Build Tags
In order to build when a new tag is pushed:
- In the
GitLab server
addTag push events
to theWeb Hook
- In the
Jenkins
under theSource Code Management
section:- select
Advance...
and add+refs/tags/*:refs/remotes/origin/tags/*
asRefspec
- you can also use
Branch Specifier
to specify which tag need to be built (exampplerefs/tags/${TAGNAME}
)
- select
Parameterized builds
You can trigger a job a manually by clicking This build is parameterized
and adding the relevant build parameters.
These include:
- gitlabSourceBranch
- gitlabTargetBranch
- gitlabSourceRepoURL
- gitlabSourceRepoName
- gitlabBranch (This is optional and can be used in shell scripts for the branch being built by the push request)
- gitlabActionType (This is optional and can be used in shell scripts or other plugins to change the build behaviour. Possible values are PUSH or MERGE)
Help Needed
/projects/
- seems to be already used by Jenkins, A way to use this path would be awesome?token=XYZ
- Can not find a way to include a token parameter on an AbstractProject to security check without an extra plugin configuration/PROJECT_NAME/
should really be /PROJECT_ID_NUMBER/ - Can not find a project id number on an AbstractProject to use here instead.
Known Issues
- GitLab CI Merge Status pages says pending when there is no build scheduled, or the status is unknown. This is because I coded a workaround until this bug gets resolved: https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/issues/7047
Contributing
- Fork it ( https://github.com/[my-github-username]/gitlab-plugin/fork )
- Create your feature branch (
git checkout -b my-new-feature
) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Add some feature'
) - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-feature
) - Create a new Pull Request
Contributors
- @bass_rock, base ground work, primary developer.
- @DABSquared, company sponsoring development.
- @xaniasd
Parts of this code inspired by https://github.com/timols/jenkins-gitlab-merge-request-builder-plugin