GitLab CI YAML API

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In GitLab, there is an API endpoint available to work with GitLab CI/CD YAML. For more information on CI/CD pipeline configuration in GitLab, see the CI/CD YAML syntax reference.

Users with the Guest role can’t access the GitLab CI YAML templates. For more information, see Project and group visibility.

List GitLab CI YAML templates

Get all GitLab CI/CD YAML templates.

GET /templates/gitlab_ci_ymls

Example request:

curl "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/templates/gitlab_ci_ymls"

Example response:

[
  {
    "key": "Android",
    "name": "Android"
  },
  {
    "key": "Android-Fastlane",
    "name": "Android-Fastlane"
  },
  {
    "key": "Auto-DevOps",
    "name": "Auto-DevOps"
  },
  {
    "key": "Bash",
    "name": "Bash"
  },
  {
    "key": "C++",
    "name": "C++"
  },
  {
    "key": "Chef",
    "name": "Chef"
  },
  {
    "key": "Clojure",
    "name": "Clojure"
  },
  {
    "key": "Code-Quality",
    "name": "Code-Quality"
  },
  {
    "key": "Crystal",
    "name": "Crystal"
  },
  {
    "key": "Django",
    "name": "Django"
  },
  {
    "key": "Docker",
    "name": "Docker"
  },
  {
    "key": "Elixir",
    "name": "Elixir"
  },
  {
    "key": "Go",
    "name": "Go"
  },
  {
    "key": "Gradle",
    "name": "Gradle"
  },
  {
    "key": "Grails",
    "name": "Grails"
  },
  {
    "key": "Julia",
    "name": "Julia"
  },
  {
    "key": "LaTeX",
    "name": "LaTeX"
  },
  {
    "key": "Laravel",
    "name": "Laravel"
  },
  {
    "key": "Maven",
    "name": "Maven"
  },
  {
    "key": "Mono",
    "name": "Mono"
  }
]

Single GitLab CI YAML template

Get a single GitLab CI/CD YAML template.

GET /templates/gitlab_ci_ymls/:key
AttributeTypeRequiredDescription
keystringYesThe key of the GitLab CI/CD YAML template

Example request:

curl "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/templates/gitlab_ci_ymls/Ruby"

Example response:

{
  "name": "Ruby",
  "content": "# This file is a template, and might need editing before it works on your project.\n# To contribute improvements to CI/CD templates, please follow the Development guide at:\n# https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/cicd/templates.html\n# This specific template is located at:\n# https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/blob/master/lib/gitlab/ci/templates/Ruby.gitlab-ci.yml\n\n# Official language image. Look for the different tagged releases at:\n# https://hub.docker.com/r/library/ruby/tags/\nimage: ruby:latest\n\n# Pick zero or more services to be used on all builds.\n# Only needed when using a docker container to run your tests in.\n# Check out: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/services/\nservices:\n  - mysql:latest\n  - redis:latest\n  - postgres:latest\n\nvariables:\n  POSTGRES_DB: database_name\n\n# Cache gems in between builds\ncache:\n  paths:\n    - vendor/ruby\n\n# This is a basic example for a gem or script which doesn't use\n# services such as redis or postgres\nbefore_script:\n  - ruby -v  # Print out ruby version for debugging\n  # Uncomment next line if your rails app needs a JS runtime:\n  # - apt-get update -q \u0026\u0026 apt-get install nodejs -yqq\n  - bundle config set --local deployment true  # Install dependencies into ./vendor/ruby\n  - bundle install -j $(nproc)\n\n# Optional - Delete if not using `rubocop`\nrubocop:\n  script:\n    - rubocop\n\nrspec:\n  script:\n    - rspec spec\n\nrails:\n  variables:\n    DATABASE_URL: \"postgresql://postgres:postgres@postgres:5432/$POSTGRES_DB\"\n  script:\n    - rails db:migrate\n    - rails db:seed\n    - rails test\n\n# This deploy job uses a simple deploy flow to Heroku, other providers, for example, AWS Elastic Beanstalk\n# are supported too: https://github.com/travis-ci/dpl\ndeploy:\n  stage: deploy\n  environment: production\n  script:\n    - gem install dpl\n    - dpl --provider=heroku --app=$HEROKU_APP_NAME --api-key=$HEROKU_PRODUCTION_KEY\n"
}