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The GitLab integration allows you to manage your SymfonyCloud environments directly from your GitLab repository.

Features supported:

  • Create a new environment when creating a branch or opening a pull request on GitLab.
  • Rebuild the environment when pushing new code to GitLab.
  • Delete the environment when merging a pull request.

Setup

1. Generate a token

To integrate your SymfonyCloud project with an existing GitLab repository, you first need to generate a token on your GitLab user profile.

Fill the Name field (for example with “SymfonyCloud Integration”) and optionally set an expiration time.

Give it a description and then ensure the token has the following scopes:

  • api - Access your API
  • read_user - Read user information
  • read_repository - Read repositories

Copy the token and make a note of it (temporarily).

Note

For the integration to work, your GitLab user needs to have permission to push code to the repository.

2. Enable the integration

Enable the GitLab integration as follows:

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$ symfony integration:add --type=gitlab --gitlab-project=MY-NAMESPACE/MY-PROJECTNAME

Tip

If your project is hosted on a private Gitlab instance you can use the --base-url option to point it to the URL for your instance. Do not append your namespace and project name.

Optional parameters:

  • --build-merge-requests: Track and deploy merge-requests (true by default)
  • --merge-requests-clone-parent-data : should merge requests clone the data from the parent environment (true by default)
  • --fetch-branches: Track and deploy branches (true by default)
  • --prune-branches: Delete branches that do not exist in the remote GitLab repository (true by default)

3. Add the webhook

When successful, the previous command outputs the configuration of the integration.

  1. Copy the Hook URL shown in the summary table.
  2. Go to your GitLab repository and click Settings then Webhooks.
  3. Paste the Hook URL.
  4. On the Triggers section choose Push events, Tag push events and Merge Request events.
  5. Click on Add webhook.

You can now start pushing code, creating new branches or opening merge requests directly on your GitLab repository. You will see environments get automatically created and updated on the SymfonyCloud side.

Types of environments

Environments based on GitLab merge requests will have the correct ‘parent’ environment on SymfonyCloud and they will be activated automatically with a copy of the parent’s data (unless the option merge-requests-clone-parent-data is set to false).

However, environments based on (non-merge-request) branches cannot have parents; they will inherit directly from the production environment and start inactive by default.

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