GitLab

How to sync secrets from Infisical to GitLab

Usage

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