Versioning

The GitLab Operator uses semver versioning. Version tags should be the semver version string.

Documentation

Operator documentation is available in the doc/ directory.

Red Hat Certification

The release pipeline will contain a certification_upload job when the repository has been tagged with a semver version (i.e. 1.0.0). This job will trigger the Red Hat API to request the image be passed through Red Hat’s certification pipeline. The results of the certification pipeline are published through Red Hat’s Connect portal.

It is also possible to pass a release candidate tag (i.e. 1.0.0-rc1) or a beta tag (i.e. 1.0.0-beta1) to trigger the certification_upload job. This will allow the image to go through the Red Hat certification tests, but will not release the images through the production channel (when that functionality has been implemented).

It is also possible to add the certification_upload job to any pipeline by setting the CI variable REDHAT_CERTIFICATION to the value “true”.

In addition, it is possible to run the scripts/redhat_certification.rb script and query the Red Hat API for the status of scan requests that have been submitted. Executing scripts/redhat_certification.rb -s will display a list of images and their current status in the Red Hat certification pipeline.

In order to execute the script independently from GitLab CI one needs to create the REDHAT_API_TOKEN environmental variable. This variable is set to the personal token generated on the Connect portal. The token used by GitLab CI is stored in the 1Password Build vault under the “Red HatCertification Token” entry.

Retagging a release

When a release pipeline fails or other fixes need to be merged before a release can be published, the tag needs to be re-created.

This is done by:

  1. Merge the required fixes into the stable branch.
  2. Delete the tag in dev fork.
  3. Delete the tag in canonical.

  4. Create the tag again on the HEAD of the stable branch.

    Important: The tag must have a description of the following format: Version a.b.c - supports GitLab Charts x, y, z Without this description the tag is not considered by release tools on the next regular release.

  5. Confirm the tag pipeline passes.
  6. Confirm the tag is mirrored to dev.