Hey, I’m trying to figure out how to set up GitLab CI, and could really use some help. I’d like to deploy via FTP using a gulp task and secret variables, but I’m having a really hard time getting it to work correctly. I can’t figure out how to properly output the config.json I’m trying to generate.
Every time I figure out a different way to escape the stuff properly, it makes the variable stop working (i.e. outputting as $ftp_host instead of the stored value in Gitlab). I think it’s because of the quotes around the variable, but I can’t figure out how to escape them and print the variable while still printing the quotes in the final config.json.
Once output, the config.json should look like this:
{"host": "example.com"}
Here’s current my .gitlab-ci.yml
image: node:latest
cache:
paths:
- node_modules/
before_script:
# - npm install -g -q gulp
# - npm install -q
- echo '{"host"":" "$ftp_host"}' > config.json
file-check:
only:
- master
script:
# - gulp
# - gulp ftp
- cat config.json
That outputs to:
{"host": "$ftp_host"}
I think what I’m looking for is a way to tell GitLab CI that $ftp_host is a variable even when it’s in quotes. In SCSS, that would be something like "#{$ftp_host}", but I doubt that will work (will give it a shot right now though)