Integration of jenkins with gitlab

March 3, 2021 / Nirav Shah

Jenkins with Gitlab is used to create CI/CD pipelines. So that we can automate the build and deployment process using Jenkins jobs.

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Step-by-Step Guide to Integrate GitLab with Jenkins for CI/CD

Step 1: Login to Jenkins Account and install the required plugin.

• Git plugin
• Git lab
• Git lab API
• Git lab Authentication
• Credentials plugin

Step 2: Now create an access token for the integration of Jenkins to GitLab and save the token at any safe place.

Step 3: Now On jenkins open Manage jenkins -> Manage credentials -> Add credentials

Select Gitlab API token

Step 4: Create Jenkins credentials and add Gitlab token

Step 5: Go to Manage Jenkins -> Configure system

Step 6: Now add Gitlab configuration information.

Step 7: Create Public and private key form the system using

‘ssh-keygen’

Step 8: Create an SSH key in Gitlab account

Step 9: Now add ‘id_rsa.pub’ key to Gitlab account

Step 10: Now Create Credentials and ‘id_rsa’ private key to Jenkins

Step 11: Add your Gitlab credentials in Jenkins for future use.

Step 12: Now create one New project in Gitlab

Step 13: Now install the git on our system

Step 14: Configure the git clone on our system

Git global setup

 git config --global user.name "something"
 git config --global user.email "something@example.com"

Create a new repository

 git clone git@gitlab.com:something/jenkins-git-integration.git
 cd jenkin-git-integration
 Touch test.sh
 git add test.sh
 git commit -m "add testfile"
 git push -u origin master

Step 15: Our file successfully push to the repository in GitLab

Step 16: Run the build now

Step 17: Run the build job and open the console output

This is how you can successfully integrate Jenkins with GitLab.