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  5. GitLab Setup

GitLab Setup

The Pulumi GitLab provider uses the GitLab SDK to manage and provision resources.

Pulumi relies on the GitLab SDK to authenticate requests from your computer to GitLab. Your credentials are never sent to pulumi.com.

The Pulumi GitLab Provider needs to be configured with GitLab credentials before it can be used to create resources.

Configuring Credentials

Once obtained, there are two ways to communicate your authorization tokens to Pulumi:

  1. Set the environment variable GITLAB_TOKEN:

    $ export GITLAB_TOKEN=XXXXXXXXXXXXXX

  2. Set them using configuration, if you prefer that they be stored alongside your Pulumi stack for easy multi-user access:

    $ pulumi config set gitlab:token XXXXXXXXXXXXXX --secret

Remember to pass --secret when setting gitlab:token so that it is properly encrypted. A full set of configuration parameters can be found listed on the Project README.