Copy a file into a remote GitLab repository

Quite new to GitLab CI/CD. I’m using self-hosted GL.
I’ve got a Python script that extracts data from a text file (hosts) and generates a second text file (config).
I would need to copy the second file into a remote GL repository.

This is what I’ve done so far in my gitlab-ci.yml file:

stages:
  - build
  - copy

build-job:
  stage: build
  only:
    - main
  script:
    - python3 --version
    - python3 inventory2ssh.py
    - cat config
 
copy-job:
  stage: copy
  only:
    - main
  script:
    - cat config
    - git clone "https://user:$PROJECT_TOKEN@remote_repo_url" ssh-config
    - cp config ssh-config/ssh/
    - cd ssh-config/ssh
    - git config user.name "my_user"
    - git config user.email "my_email"
    - git add config
    - git commit -m "Adding config file"
    - git push origin master

The problem is that only the first job succeeds, the second one throws this error:

fatal: pathspec 'config' did not match any files

Hey,

One question: What type of GitLab Runner Executor are you using?

If the answer is Docker - you need to know that every job runs in a separate container (your project is cloned, script is executed…) and when done, container is deleted - and everything with it if you didn’t push it somewhere, or specify artifacts.

So, I think (hope), the solution should be quite simple - define artifacts in your first job:

build-job:
  stage: build
  only:
    - main
  script:
    - python3 --version
    - python3 inventory2ssh.py
    - cat config
  artifacts:
    paths:
      - config

GitLab Runner will then upload this artifact to GitLab, and by default, all jobs in the next stage will download this artifact and be able to use it

Hope this helps!

Hallo Paula,
Worked like a charm!

Danke schön

It was a Shell executor by the way!