Ci with variable environment

GreenStoines7 · December 8, 2023, 3:58pm

marfrelen:

Hello everyone. I don’t know if this is the right way to save code lines or if there is another possibility to run different environments with the same deploy stage.
stages:
- deploy
My case. I want to deploy the staging system and the production system in the same way. To do this, I wrote a rule block to define the envioronment in a environment variable which is initialized like this:
workflow:
  rules:
  - if: $CI_COMMIT_BRANCH =~ /^release\//
    variables:
      ENVIRONMENT_NAME: staging
    when: always
  - if: $CI_COMMIT_BRANCH == "main"
    variables:
      ENVIRONMENT_NAME: production
    when: always
  - when: never
And the deployment stage looks like this:
deploy:
  stage: deploy
  image: ubuntu:22.04
  rules:
  - when: manual
  environment:
    name: $ENVIRONMENT_NAME
  before_script:
  - echo "${ENVIRONMENT_NAME}"
  # ssh config
  - test -z "${SSH_PRIVATE_KEY}" && exit 1
  - test -f "${SSH_PRIVATE_KEY}" && exit 1
  - test -z "${SSH_USER}" && exit 1
  - test -z "${SSH_HOST}" && exit 1
  - test -z "${SSH_PORT}" && exit 1
  - test -z "${SSH_FOLDER}" && exit 1
  - test -z "${SSH_KNOWN_HOSTS}" && exit 1
   <…>
The rest of the stage is not important for my question which follows now:

When I push to the main branch, everything is working fine and as expected. But if I push in any release branch, the ci variables are missing.

The test to check if the SSH_PRIVATE_KEY is available fails, but the private key variable is available for all stages.

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So I’m a bit confused that the variables are available for the main branch (production environment) but not for the release branch (staging environment).

I think it has anything to do with my workflow part but I’m not sure.
I’m not so fimilar with the gitlab ci yaml and maybe it is nonsense to use a variable for the environment name.
Markus

Are your release branches secure? SSH_PRIVATE_KEY is for protected branches like your main one; it might not work elsewhere.

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