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Reputation: 86757

How to include xml file from other project in gitlab ci pipeline?

I have a project /templates where I want to add a common ci_settings.xml that sets some defaults for maven commands.

I then want to reuse this template in another project:

.gitlab_ci.yml:

image: maven:3.8.4-eclipse-temurin-11

include:
  project: 'all/templates'
  ref: master
  file:
    - 'ci_settings.xml'

deploy:
  stage: deploy
  script: mvn deploy -s ci_settings.xml

Result:

Found errors in your .gitlab-ci.yml:
    Included file `ci_settings.xml` does not have YAML extension!

How can I actually make use of this external file, if not via include?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2309

Answers (1)

danielnelz
danielnelz

Reputation: 5146

You can use include only with yml files. But you can clone the /templates project in your pipeline via CI_JOB_TOKEN and use it this way. As you don't need the commit history here you can set the depth to 1.

image: maven:3.8.4-eclipse-temurin-11

deploy:
  stage: deploy
  script:
    - git clone --depth 1 https://gitlab-ci-token:${CI_JOB_TOKEN}@your_path_to_templates_project.git templates
    - mvn deploy -s templates/ci_settings.xml

Upvotes: 2

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