GitLab Release Group, 30 Nov 2020

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From YouTube: Release description from file using the release-cli

Description

Read a release description from a file inside your project using the release-cli.

- Issue https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/release-cli/-/issues/14
- MR in progress https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/release-cli/-/merge_requests/67
- Sample project https://gitlab.com/jaime/hello/-/blob/v1.13.0-rc1/.gitlab/ci/release-from-tag-cli-only.yml#L43

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All right, so the idea of using a description file in this release is something that we can achieve uh already, but at the moment it actually requires a previous job to generate this description file. Somehow and in this example, it's just a script using a file that does something and then puts it into a distributed description, txt file right now. uh The idea here well, the problem here is there- is really cli needs to get this file using export, exporting this into an environment variable.

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So, for example, here it's just saying cap this file into this variable, and then we can just use the variable here right now. The idea of this is to actually don't need to use the environment variable anymore and just say description, xp and yeah. We shouldn't we don't need to use this anymore. No, I'm just gonna keep it here and, as you can see, I had already uh use this image, so what I did is just take.

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uh I used that and my uh from next to actually put it into my fork of this project, and then I can just call it in there with this cli and save okay. So what we're gonna do is: let's just connect this.

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Taxi online here, so what I can do is click add and I'm just going to say, 13 candidate one and then just push this.

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And then, if I go into the pipeline.

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It should be a timeline running. That's going to generate this release, so the prepare stage stays the same. It's just going to create this um release, file that we actually saw in this step here, yeah and the idea once this is done- and here is the release here. I should just grab this.

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There might have been an issue generating the file, so I need to do this again anyway. Let's see this should be running oh come on. I just want to click on it: okay, yeah cool, so we can see the release. Cli is taking the release description as a text file, and if we look at this lock line, uh we can see that this description is actually uh saying well, using what we told it to do from the files.

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If I go into the releases page for release candidate, one yeah, we can see v113 rc1 and we can see here. The description is already saying: pull the new image using tag, or this, as we saw there, was an issue generating this file. But basically, this is the feature I'm just specifying file as part of my ci uh job like this, then not having to do this complicated thing of catting and exporting into an environment. Variable.