gitlab-pipeline-trigger

Trigger gitlab pipeline across projects using gitlab pipelines API, this tool makes it easier to quick other projects pipeline. what you need to prepare:

1. Pipeline Trigger Token
2. API Token for your account/or deploy account
3. Project ID, that you want to trigger it's pipeline

The tool is contained in a small docker image tht you can use locally or inside gitlab ci:

docker run --rm -it registry.gitlab.com/schehata/gitlab-pipeline-trigger ./main -a $API_TOKEN -t $TRIGGER_TOKEN -p $PROJECT_ID

Possible Attributes

• -a to set the API Token
• -t to set Trigger Token
• -h to set host, default is https://gitlab.com
• -p to set project id
• -b to set target branch (reference), default is: master
• -w to set if the client should keep fetching pipeline status until it the pipeline fails or succeeds, disabled by default.

Passing trigger variables

From gitlab docs:

You can pass any number of arbitrary variables in the trigger API call and they will be available in GitLab CI so that they can be used in your .gitlab-ci.yml file.

This tools gives you the ability to pass these variables and converts them to variables[key]=value and send them to the Gitlab pipeline api. you can pass those variables like this

docker run --rm -it registry.gitlab.com/schehata/gitlab-pipeline-trigger ./main env=production author=schehata logLevel=info

that would result in

variables[env]=production
variables[author]=schehata
variables[logLevel]=info

Example of using it inside gitlab ci

e2e:
 stage: test
 when: manual
 image: registry.gitlab.com/ishehata/gitlab-pipeline-trigger
 script:
   - /trigger/main -a=$API_TOKEN -p=$PROJECT_ID -t=$TRIGGER_TOKEN -w=true