Can it do these things:

[gitlabform]

Can it do these things:

[davidarcher]

@c33s I just opened a PR for subgroup support. Just a one-liner and I have been able to use gitlabform now to apply settings to all my projects that are stored in a subgroup.

[gdubicki]

Hey @andrei-abusan, unfortunately none of these things is possible as of now.

I believe that setting group visibility would be trivial to add and I can do that.

I don't think that we use subgroups so I would prefer to get a PR for this.

As for creating groups and projects: do you have a proposal for how it could be designed? I mean the config syntax and the flow, I would think of the implementation.

Using project name is something I have already been considering along with support for templates in files section, so this may be added pretty soon by us.

[andrei-abusan]

Hi @gdubicki thanks for the quick reply.

WRT creating groups and projects, I think it could actually work with existing syntax. If you specify a set of configuration for a group and said group doesn't exist, create it. If it does exist just update the settings for it. You would end up with blank configuration for all the projects you are creating but that can double as a readymade "overrides" section for said project if ever you want to add any. Possibly have a boolean to say whether to create if not present? So I would expect below to create the group and the project inside it with whatever settings gitlab is set to default to globally.

gitlab:
  url: http://company.gitlab.com
  token: "<token_here>"

group_settings:
   'my_group': # common settings for ALL projects in this project group
project_settings:
  'my_group/my_project':
    'createIfNotPresent': true # flag to toggle feature if you think it's worth having
    project_settings:

Great to hear that you were already considering templating and gathering information, I think that would significantly expand what can be done with the tool!

I'm still not sure if we will be using a hosted GitLab instance yet as we are still weighing pros and cons but if we do, this could be really useful in automating at least parts of our migration as well as leaving us in a better place with configuration as code and an automated system for creating projects. Cheers to you for making this and open-sourcing it!

[gdubicki]

Apart from that that you use camel case instead of underscore separator for the createIfNotPresent key name, I like your design proposal, thanks. :)

However as we don't really need it for our purpose I will more likely work on other features/bugfixes now.

We are open to getting PRs with this though!

[c33s]

subgroups would be really important. happily installed python and gitlabform on my system only to see that subgroups are not supported :(

[c33s]

PR Enable support for subgroups #21

[gdubicki]

So as I was afraid, adding full subgroups support is not so easy. For now I was just going through array of groups and getting their projects. Now I have to switch to going through a tree of groups and their projects. And getting subgroups of a group has only been added in GitLab 10.3,
released yesterday (https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/api/groups.html#list-a-group-s-projects)...

To make your life easier @c33s @davidarcher @andrei-abusan , I have just released v.0.21.2 with a partial, unofficial subgroups support. If you define config for a subgroup and run gitlabform with ALL_DEFINED or this subgroup name your projects in this subgroup will be processed. But they WON'T be processed if you run it with ALL.

I will try to work on getting a full support for subgroups in the next few weeks but PRs for this are still very welcome.

[kumy]

This is a great missing feature. Do you think #51 could be a good approach? For me when using ALL it list quite all our project (~100 are not listed, but there may have problems on our side those are archived projects.)

[gdubicki]

No, @kumy , #51 is not enough.

But I think that it is time to finally add full subgroups support so I have started working on it in https://github.com/egnyte/gitlabform/pull/52/files .

[gdubicki]

1.8.0 with full subgroups support has been released today. Please let me know if it works for you. :)

[gdubicki]

1.9.0 with "set group visibility" (using group settings) has been released today.

[gdubicki]

Note to self: after adding (users,) groups and projects creation feature we need to update https://github.com/egnyte/gitlabform/blob/master/GT_VS_GLF.md#key-differences and the Google Sheet.

[amimas]

Should we close this and open individual issue if anything from this issue is still needed? It's labelled as feature request but original message is referring to multiple things and I'm not sure if all of them are appropriate.

[gdubicki]

Everything except the projects and groups creation is implemented, so sure, we can close this and create a new issue just for that. Thanks @amimas!