Gitlab Tag

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Description

The Gitlab "tag" plugin allows to manipulate Gitlab repository tags.

source

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

condition

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

target

Target is not supported, feel free to manifest your interest by opening an issue on updatecil/updatecli/issues, or highlighting an existing one.

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
owner	string	[S][C] Owner specifies repository owner
repository	string	[S][C] Repository specifies the name of a repository for a specific owner
tag	string	[S] Tag defines the GitLab tag .
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][C] 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 tag usage"

sources:
  default:
    name: "Get tag using versionfilter from a Gitlab repository"
    kind: "gitlab/tag"
    spec:
      # Default to gitlab.com
      # url: "gitlab.com"
      owner: "olblak"
      repository: "updatecli-test"
      versionfilter:
        kind: "semver"
        pattern: "~0.0"

  latest:
    name: "Get latest tag tag from a Gitlab repository"
    kind: "gitlab/tag"
    spec:
      # Default to gitlab.com
      # url: "gitlab.com"
      owner: "olblak"
      repository: "updatecli-test"

conditions:
  default:
    name: "Test tag '0.0.2' exist on the Gitlab repository"
    kind: "gitlab/tag"
    disablesourceinput: true
    spec:
      # Default to gitlab.com
      # url: "gitlab.com"
      owner: "olblak"
      repository: "updatecli"
      tag: "v0.2.0"

  sourcedefault:
    name: "Test that the tag retrieved from source 'default' exist on the Gitlab repository"
    kind: "gitlab/tag"
    sourceid: "default"
    spec:
      # Default to gitlab.com
      # url: "gitlab.com"
      owner: "olblak"
      repository: "updatecli"

  latest:
    name: "Test that the tag retrieved from source 'latest' exist on the Gitlab repository"
    kind: "gitlab/tag"
    sourceid: "latest"
    spec:
      # Default to gitlab.com
      # url: "gitlab.com"
      owner: "olblak"
      repository: "updatecli"