GitLab

How to sync secrets from Infisical to GitLab

• Usage
• Self-Hosted Setup

Prerequisites:

• Set up and add envars to Infisical Cloud

Standard

1

Authorize Infisical for GitLab

Navigate to your project’s integrations tab in Infisical.

Press on the GitLab tile and grant Infisical access to your GitLab account.

If this is your project’s first cloud integration, then you’ll have to grant Infisical access to your project’s environment variables. Although this step breaks E2EE, it’s necessary for Infisical to sync the environment variables to the cloud platform.

2

Start integration

Select which Infisical environment secrets you want to sync to which GitLab repository and press create integration to start syncing secrets to GitLab.

Note that the GitLab integration supports a few options in the Options tab:

• Secret Prefix: If inputted, the prefix is appended to the front of every secret name prior to being synced.
• Secret Suffix: If inputted, the suffix to appended to the back of every name of every secret prior to being synced.

Setting a secret prefix or suffix ensures that existing secrets in GitLab are not overwritten during the sync. As part of this process, Infisical abstains from mutating any secrets in GitLab without the specified prefix or suffix.

Pipeline

1

Authorize Infisical for GitLab

Generate an Infisical Token for the specific project and environment in Infisical.

Next, create a new variable called INFISICAL_TOKEN with the value set to the token from the previous step in Settings > CI/CD > Variables of your GitLab repository.

2

Configure Infisical in your pipeline

Edit your .gitlab-ci.yml to include the Infisical CLI installation. This will allow you to use the CLI for fetching and injecting secrets into any script or command within your Gitlab CI/CD process.

Example

image: ubuntu

stages:
  - build
  - test
  - deploy

build-job:
  stage: build
  script:
    - apt update && apt install -y curl
    - curl -1sLf 'https://dl.cloudsmith.io/public/infisical/infisical-cli/setup.deb.sh' | bash
    - apt-get update && apt-get install -y infisical
    - infisical run -- npm run build

Prerequisites:

• Set up and add envars to Infisical Cloud

Standard

1

Authorize Infisical for GitLab

Navigate to your project’s integrations tab in Infisical.

Press on the GitLab tile and grant Infisical access to your GitLab account.

If this is your project’s first cloud integration, then you’ll have to grant Infisical access to your project’s environment variables. Although this step breaks E2EE, it’s necessary for Infisical to sync the environment variables to the cloud platform.

2

Start integration

Select which Infisical environment secrets you want to sync to which GitLab repository and press create integration to start syncing secrets to GitLab.

Note that the GitLab integration supports a few options in the Options tab:

• Secret Prefix: If inputted, the prefix is appended to the front of every secret name prior to being synced.
• Secret Suffix: If inputted, the suffix to appended to the back of every name of every secret prior to being synced.

Setting a secret prefix or suffix ensures that existing secrets in GitLab are not overwritten during the sync. As part of this process, Infisical abstains from mutating any secrets in GitLab without the specified prefix or suffix.

Pipeline

1

Authorize Infisical for GitLab

Generate an Infisical Token for the specific project and environment in Infisical.

Next, create a new variable called INFISICAL_TOKEN with the value set to the token from the previous step in Settings > CI/CD > Variables of your GitLab repository.

2

Configure Infisical in your pipeline

Edit your .gitlab-ci.yml to include the Infisical CLI installation. This will allow you to use the CLI for fetching and injecting secrets into any script or command within your Gitlab CI/CD process.

Example

image: ubuntu

stages:
  - build
  - test
  - deploy

build-job:
  stage: build
  script:
    - apt update && apt install -y curl
    - curl -1sLf 'https://dl.cloudsmith.io/public/infisical/infisical-cli/setup.deb.sh' | bash
    - apt-get update && apt-get install -y infisical
    - infisical run -- npm run build

Using the GitLab integration on a self-hosted instance of Infisical requires configuring an application in GitLab and registering your instance with it.

1

Create an OAuth application in GitLab

Navigate to your user Settings > Applications to create a new GitLab application.

Create the application. As part of the form, set the Redirect URI to https://your-domain.com/integrations/gitlab/oauth2/callback.

If you have a GitLab group, you can create an OAuth application under it in your group Settings > Applications.

2

Add your OAuth application credentials to Infisical

Obtain the Application ID and Secret for your GitLab application.

Back in your Infisical instance, add two new environment variables for the credentials of your GitLab application:

• CLIENT_ID_GITLAB: The Client ID of your GitLab application.
• CLIENT_SECRET_GITLAB: The Secret of your GitLab application.

Once added, restart your Infisical instance and use the GitLab integration.