GitLab connections - Amazon CodeBuild
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GitLab connections

Connections allow you to authorize and establish configurations that associate your third-party provider with your Amazon resources using Amazon CodeConnections. To associate your third-party repository as a source for your build project, you use a connection.

To add a GitLab or GitLab Self Managed source provider in CodeBuild, you can choose either to:

  • Use the CodeBuild console Create build project wizard or Edit Source page to choose the GitLab or GitLab Self Managed provider option. See Create a connection to GitLab (console) to add the source provider. The console helps you create a connections resource.

  • Use the CLI to create your connections resources, see Create a connection to GitLab (CLI) to create a connections resource with the CLI.

Note

You can also create a connection using the Developer Tools console under Settings. See Create a Connection.

Note

By authorizing this connection installation in GitLab, you grant our service permissions to process your data by accessing your account, and you can revoke the permissions at any time by uninstalling the application.

Before you begin:

  • You must have already created an account with GitLab.

    Note

    Connections only provide access to repositories owned by the account that was used to create and authorize the connection.

    Note

    You can create connections to a repository where you have the Owner role in GitLab, and then the connection can be used with the repository with resources such as CodeBuild. For repositories in groups, you do not need to be the group owner.

  • To specify a source for your build project, you must have already created a repository on GitLab.

Create a connection to GitLab (console)

Use these steps to use the CodeBuild console to add a connection for your project (repository) in GitLab.

To create or edit your build project

  1. Sign in to the CodeBuild console.

  2. Choose one of the following.

    • Choose to create a build project. Follow the steps in Create a build project (console) to complete the first screen and in the Source section, under Source Provider, choose GitLab.

    • Choose to edit an existing build project. Choose Edit, and then choose Source. In the Edit Source page, under Source provider, choose GitLab.

  3. Choose one of the following:

    • Under Connection, choose Default connection. Default connection applies a default GitLab connection across all projects.

    • Under Connection, choose Custom connection. Custom connection applies a custom GitLab connection that overrides your account's default settings.

  4. Do one of the following:

    • Under Default connection or Custom connection, if you have not already created a connection to your provider, choose Create a new GitLab connection. Proceed to step 5 to create the connection.

    • Under Connection, if you have already created a connection to your provider, choose the connection. Proceed to step 10.

    Note

    If you close the pop-up window before a GitLab connection is created, you need to refresh the page.

  5. To create a connection to a GitLab repository, under Select a provider, choose GitLab. In Connection name, enter the name for the connection that you want to create. Choose Connect to GitLab.

    Console screenshot showing connection option selected for GitLab.

  6. When the sign-in page for GitLab displays, log in with your credentials, and then choose Sign in.

  7. If this is your first time authorizing the connection, an authorization page displays with a message requesting authorization for the connection to access your GitLab account.

    Choose Authorize.

    Screenshot showing the message to authorize the connection for your GitLab account.

  8. The browser returns to the connections console page. Under GitLab connection settings, the new connection is shown in Connection name.

  9. Choose Connect.

    After a GitLab connection is successfully created, a success banner will be displayed at the top.

  10. On the Create build project page, in the Default connection or Custom connection drop-down list, make sure your connection ARN is listed. If not, choose the refresh button to have it appear.

  11. In Repository, choose the name of your project in GitLab by specifying the project path with the namespace. For example, for a group-level repository, enter the repository name in the following format: group-name/repository-name. For more information about the path and namespace, see the path_with_namespace field in https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/projects.html#get-single-project. For more information about the namespace in GitLab, see https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/namespace/.

    Note

    For groups in GitLab, you must manually specify the project path with the namespace. For example, for a repository named myrepo in a group mygroup, enter the following: mygroup/myrepo. You can find the project path with the namespace in the URL in GitLab.

  12. In Source version - optional, enter a pull request ID, branch, commit ID, tag, or reference and a commit ID. For more information, see Source version sample with Amazon CodeBuild.

    Note

    We recommend that you choose Git branch names that don't look like commit IDs, such as 811dd1ba1aba14473856cee38308caed7190c0d or 5392f7. This helps you avoid Git checkout collisions with actual commits.

  13. In Git clone depth - optional, you can create a shallow clone with a history truncated to the specified number of commits. If you want a full clone, choose Full.

  14. In Build Status - optional, select Report build statuses to source provider when your builds start and finish if you want the status of your build's start and completion reported to your source provider.

    To be able to report the build status to the source provider, the user associated with the source provider must have write access to the repo. If the user does not have write access, the build status cannot be updated. For more information, see Source provider access.

Create a connection to GitLab (CLI)

You can use the Amazon Command Line Interface (Amazon CLI) to create a connection.

To do this, use the create-connection command.

Important

A connection created through the Amazon CLI or Amazon CloudFormation is in PENDING status by default. After you create a connection with the CLI or Amazon CloudFormation, use the console to edit the connection to make its status AVAILABLE.

To create a connection