Has anyone configured gocd using yaml IaC?

[mrojas-macu]

Currently I'm setting up gocd for my team and I have not found a way to just use yaml templates without all of the xml and templating process through the UI. Has anyone set up gocd just using yaml and nothing else?

[sriramnrn]

On Thu, Oct 9, 2025 at 11:25 PM Miguel Rojas ***@***.***> wrote: Currently I'm setting up gocd for my team and I have not found a way to just use yaml templates without all of the xml and templating process through the UI. Has anyone set up gocd just using yaml and nothing else?

Yes, there are several projects that I know of that use GoCD using purely yaml based pipeline design. At my current client, we have a number of GoCD instances that are either fully XML or which have a combination of XML + yaml. I have chosen to not migrate certain XML-based pipelines to yaml because these pipelines are used by system administrators to perform adhoc tasks or tasks where they need to edit commands and test. They are still on their journey toward automation.

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[mrojas-macu]

Do you know if GoCD offers any solution or open-source projects, or are these private projects?

[chadlwilson]

See https://docs.gocd.org/current/advanced_usage/pipelines_as_code.html#pipeline-configuration-in-yaml and https://github.com/tomzo/gocd-yaml-config-plugin - the functionality is baked into GoCD. The entry point is Admin > Config repositories to point it to repos that contain pipeline yaml, json etc.

Not 100% of GoCD as a server can be configured via YAML, but for the pipelines - yes.