Setting up private repos in GitLab

Script for creating private repos by template (import_url)

Install requirements

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Run

Creating repos and inviting users

Get list of all users from settings.json
Create a repo with a username using template (import_url) from settings.toml

python3 inviter.py

Approve signing up users

By default, GitLab requires you to approve the registration of all users.

Get white list of users from settings.json

python3 inviter.py

Settings

You can see an example of all settings in settings.json and settings.toml

I recommend creating config/.secrets.json and config/.secrets.toml files following the pattern config/settings.json and config/settings.toml
To store sensitive settings