Release during pipeline

Automate release in gitlab ci

Hi,

The goal is pretty straightforward, during the CI/CD pipeline, I would like to create a release associated with a tag (and this is pretty automatic), and then I would like to upload a binary associated with the release.
Ideally I would like to use the same style I already use for the artifacts.

I made some research, and I found some interesting resources:

• first of all I found workaround, or external extension, and it wasn’t very encouraging…
  • I found that it’s possible to use Release API to operate with
  • or https://www.philipp-doblhofer.at/en/blog/gitlab-automatic-releases-with-ci-cd-pipelines/
  • or https://juhani.gitlab.io/go-semrel-gitlab/
  • or https://ruleoftech.com/2020/automate-versioning-and-changelog-with-release-it-on-gitlab-ci-cd
• But then I found this awesome guy Sean Carrol that actually asked, thought and developed, the same (much better actually) thing I did:
  • https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/19298 The MR is merged but I cant find any documentation on that

I’m asking you…
What is the best way to do so?

Thank you

Hi,

this is part of the release management vision, @jmeshell maybe can shed some more light into this being our product manager

In terms of automating a release, you need to incorporate the releases API from a script call in the .gitlab-ci.yml for now. This should be done via the CI config file then. This is the epic for tracking:

Another iteration will be the release CLI which is described amongst the whole process in this amazing blog post:

Cheers,
Michael

Thanks @dnsmichi! Yes, you are totally right about following that epic for the next few implementations.

@Matteo425 - until we can support binary files in Releases, we have users adding asset links to the releases created with yaml via the Releases API. Hope this helps!