gitlab-cli

A simple command-line tool to interact with GitLab API. Currently only the version 4 of GitLab API is supported.

Overview

gitlab-cli provides a simple interface to interact with Gitlab servers. It has two main modes:

• Interactive provides a list of actions to choose from in an interactive way.

• Command provides a single command line for user actions, arguments and flags.

Supported actions

• projects
  • get list of projects
  • get a project with id
• releases
  • get list of releases of a project
  • get a release with project id and tag name
  • create a new release for a project

Authentication

Gitlab authentication is done using Person Access Token. To generate a new token, go to "Gitlab > User Settings > Access Token".

Config file

The Gitlab base url and access token can be stored in a config file. The default location of the config file is $HOME/.gitlab-cli-config.yml. A Sample config file looks like this:

baseUrl: https://gitlabci.example.com
privateToken: 90we48534tgDFf345

Interactive mode

In the interactive mode, gitlab-cli asks user the actions and parameters for each action in an interactive way.

Command mode

In the command mode, user should enter the action and all the necessary arguments and flags together to perform the desired action. Example:

• gitlab-cli project list --url <gitlab_base_url> --token <your_access_token> to get list of projects
• gitlab-cli release get --project-id <project_id> --tag-name <tag_name> --url <gitlab_base_url> --token <your_access_token> to get a release with project id and tag name
• gitlab-cli release create '{"name":"release 0.0.1","tag_name":"0.0.1","description":"A nice description","ref":"master","released_at":"2019-09-12T11:04:05+02:00"}' --url <gitlab_base_url> --token <your_access_token> --project-id <project_id> to create a new release

TODO

• Other actions can be added. Feel free to create pull requests or issues.
• Introduce profiles in the config file and receive the active profile as an argument. Example:

server1:
    baseUrl: https://gitlabci.server1.com
    privateToken: 90we48534tgDFf345
server2:
    baseUrl: https://gitlabci.server2.com
    privateToken: 24r58534t2gfg4671

• Add a new argument to override the location of the config file.

Dev it!

To build:

• go build -o gitlab-cli

Optionally you can set the version number:

• go build -o gitlab-cli -ldflags "-X https://github.com/EXXETA/gitlab-cli/cmd.Version=x.y.z"

To test:

• go test -v ./...

To run:

• go run gitlab-cli

or

• ./gitlab-cli

Dependencies

• promptui
• cobra
• viper
• Testify