I am installing GitLab onto Ubuntu 16.04 using ansible. Installation is all working, but post installation I want to use the Gitlab API (CLI wrapper) to automatically create projects, users, import repos e.t.c I have all these steps working on a running GitLab where I have used the UI to set the r…

Accessing root API token after headless install

nununo July 27, 2021, 9:52pm 3

I’m also wondering how to achieve this since username/password authentication is no longer accepted by the API.

Update: I ended up finding the solution here.

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