- List environments
- Get a specific environment
- Create a new environment
- Update an existing environment
- Delete an environment
- Delete multiple stopped review apps
- Stop an environment
- Stop stale environments
Environments API
Support for GitLab CI/CD job token authentication introduced in GitLab 16.2.
List environments
Get all environments for a given project.
GET /projects/:id/environments
Attribute | Type | Required | Description |
---|---|---|---|
id | integer/string | yes | The ID or URL-encoded path of the project. |
name | string | no | Return the environment with this name. Mutually exclusive with search . |
search | string | no | Return list of environments matching the search criteria. Mutually exclusive with name . Must be at least 3 characters long. |
states | string | no | List all environments that match a specific state. Accepted values: available , stopping , or stopped . If no state value given, returns all environments. |
curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/environments?name=review%2Ffix-foo"
Example response:
[
{
"id": 1,
"name": "review/fix-foo",
"slug": "review-fix-foo-dfjre3",
"external_url": "https://review-fix-foo-dfjre3.gitlab.example.com",
"state": "available",
"tier": "development",
"created_at": "2019-05-25T18:55:13.252Z",
"updated_at": "2019-05-27T18:55:13.252Z",
"enable_advanced_logs_querying": false,
"logs_api_path": "/project/-/logs/k8s.json?environment_name=review%2Ffix-foo"
}
]
Get a specific environment
GET /projects/:id/environments/:environment_id
Attribute | Type | Required | Description |
---|---|---|---|
id | integer/string | yes | The ID or URL-encoded path of the project. |
environment_id | integer | yes | The ID of the environment. |
curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/environments/1"
Example of response
{
"id": 1,
"name": "review/fix-foo",
"slug": "review-fix-foo-dfjre3",
"external_url": "https://review-fix-foo-dfjre3.gitlab.example.com",
"state": "available",
"tier": "development",
"created_at": "2019-05-25T18:55:13.252Z",
"updated_at": "2019-05-27T18:55:13.252Z",
"enable_advanced_logs_querying": false,
"logs_api_path": "/project/-/logs/k8s.json?environment_name=review%2Ffix-foo",
"last_deployment": {
"id": 100,
"iid": 34,
"ref": "fdroid",
"sha": "416d8ea11849050d3d1f5104cf8cf51053e790ab",
"created_at": "2019-03-25T18:55:13.252Z",
"status": "success",
"user": {
"id": 1,
"name": "Administrator",
"state": "active",
"username": "root",
"avatar_url": "http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/e64c7d89f26bd1972efa854d13d7dd61?s=80&d=identicon",
"web_url": "http://localhost:3000/root"
},
"deployable": {
"id": 710,
"status": "success",
"stage": "deploy",
"name": "staging",
"ref": "fdroid",
"tag": false,
"coverage": null,
"created_at": "2019-03-25T18:55:13.215Z",
"started_at": "2019-03-25T12:54:50.082Z",
"finished_at": "2019-03-25T18:55:13.216Z",
"duration": 21623.13423,
"project": {
"ci_job_token_scope_enabled": false
},
"user": {
"id": 1,
"name": "Administrator",
"username": "root",
"state": "active",
"avatar_url": "http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/e64c7d89f26bd1972efa854d13d7dd61?s=80&d=identicon",
"web_url": "http://gitlab.dev/root",
"created_at": "2015-12-21T13:14:24.077Z",
"bio": null,
"location": null,
"public_email": "",
"skype": "",
"linkedin": "",
"twitter": "",
"website_url": "",
"organization": null
},
"commit": {
"id": "416d8ea11849050d3d1f5104cf8cf51053e790ab",
"short_id": "416d8ea1",
"created_at": "2016-01-02T15:39:18.000Z",
"parent_ids": [
"e9a4449c95c64358840902508fc827f1a2eab7df"
],
"title": "Removed fabric to fix #40",
"message": "Removed fabric to fix #40\n",
"author_name": "Administrator",
"author_email": "admin@example.com",
"authored_date": "2016-01-02T15:39:18.000Z",
"committer_name": "Administrator",
"committer_email": "admin@example.com",
"committed_date": "2016-01-02T15:39:18.000Z"
},
"pipeline": {
"id": 34,
"sha": "416d8ea11849050d3d1f5104cf8cf51053e790ab",
"ref": "fdroid",
"status": "success",
"web_url": "http://localhost:3000/Commit451/lab-coat/pipelines/34"
},
"web_url": "http://localhost:3000/Commit451/lab-coat/-/jobs/710",
"artifacts": [
{
"file_type": "trace",
"size": 1305,
"filename": "job.log",
"file_format": null
}
],
"runner": null,
"artifacts_expire_at": null
}
}
}
Create a new environment
Creates a new environment with the given name and external_url
.
It returns 201
if the environment was successfully created, 400
for wrong parameters.
POST /projects/:id/environments
Attribute | Type | Required | Description |
---|---|---|---|
id | integer/string | yes | The ID or URL-encoded path of the project. |
name | string | yes | The name of the environment. |
external_url | string | no | Place to link to for this environment. |
tier | string | no | The tier of the new environment. Allowed values are production , staging , testing , development , and other . |
curl --data "name=deploy&external_url=https://deploy.gitlab.example.com" \
--header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/environments"
Example response:
{
"id": 1,
"name": "deploy",
"slug": "deploy",
"external_url": "https://deploy.gitlab.example.com",
"state": "available",
"tier": "production",
"created_at": "2019-05-25T18:55:13.252Z",
"updated_at": "2019-05-27T18:55:13.252Z"
}
Update an existing environment
Parameter name
removed in GitLab 16.0.
Updates an existing environment’s name and/or external_url
.
It returns 200
if the environment was successfully updated. In case of an error, a status code 400
is returned.
PUT /projects/:id/environments/:environments_id
Attribute | Type | Required | Description |
---|---|---|---|
id | integer/string | yes | The ID or URL-encoded path of the project. |
environment_id | integer | yes | The ID of the environment. |
external_url | string | no | The new external_url . |
tier | string | no | The tier of the new environment. Allowed values are production , staging , testing , development , and other . |
curl --request PUT --data "external_url=https://staging.gitlab.example.com" \
--header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/environments/1"
Example response:
{
"id": 1,
"name": "staging",
"slug": "staging",
"external_url": "https://staging.gitlab.example.com",
"state": "available",
"tier": "staging",
"created_at": "2019-05-25T18:55:13.252Z",
"updated_at": "2019-05-27T18:55:13.252Z"
}
Delete an environment
It returns 204
if the environment was successfully deleted, and 404
if the environment does not exist. The environment must be stopped first, otherwise the request returns 403
.
DELETE /projects/:id/environments/:environment_id
Attribute | Type | Required | Description |
---|---|---|---|
id | integer/string | yes | The ID or URL-encoded path of the project. |
environment_id | integer | yes | The ID of the environment. |
curl --request DELETE --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/environments/1"
Delete multiple stopped review apps
Introduced in GitLab 14.2.
It schedules for deletion multiple environments that have already been
stopped and
are in the review app folder.
The actual deletion is performed after 1 week from the time of execution.
By default, it only deletes environments 30 days or older. You can change this default using the before
parameter.
DELETE /projects/:id/environments/review_apps
Attribute | Type | Required | Description |
---|---|---|---|
id | integer/string | yes | The ID or URL-encoded path of the project. |
before | datetime | no | The date before which environments can be deleted. Defaults to 30 days ago. Expected in ISO 8601 format (YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ ). |
limit | integer | no | Maximum number of environments to delete. Defaults to 100. |
dry_run | boolean | no | Defaults to true for safety reasons. It performs a dry run where no actual deletion is performed. Set to false to actually delete the environment. |
curl --request DELETE --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/environments/review_apps"
Example response:
{
"scheduled_entries": [
{
"id": 387,
"name": "review/023f1bce01229c686a73",
"slug": "review-023f1bce01-3uxznk",
"external_url": null
},
{
"id": 388,
"name": "review/85d4c26a388348d3c4c0",
"slug": "review-85d4c26a38-5giw1c",
"external_url": null
}
],
"unprocessable_entries": []
}
Stop an environment
It returns 200
if the environment was successfully stopped, and 404
if the environment does not exist.
POST /projects/:id/environments/:environment_id/stop
Attribute | Type | Required | Description |
---|---|---|---|
id | integer/string | yes | The ID or URL-encoded path of the project. |
environment_id | integer | yes | The ID of the environment. |
force | boolean | no | Force environment to stop without executing on_stop actions. |
curl --request POST --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/environments/1/stop"
Example response:
{
"id": 1,
"name": "deploy",
"slug": "deploy",
"external_url": "https://deploy.gitlab.example.com",
"state": "stopped",
"created_at": "2019-05-25T18:55:13.252Z",
"updated_at": "2019-05-27T18:55:13.252Z"
}
Stop stale environments
Issue stop request to all environments that were last modified or deployed to before a specified date. Excludes protected environments. Returns 200
if stop request was successful and 400
if the before date is invalid. For details of exactly when the environment is stopped, see Stop an environment.
POST /projects/:id/environments/stop_stale
Attribute | Type | Required | Description |
---|---|---|---|
id | integer/string | yes | The ID or URL-encoded path of the project. |
before | date | yes | Stop environments that have been modified or deployed to before the specified date. Expected in ISO 8601 format (2019-03-15T08:00:00Z ). Valid inputs are between 10 years ago and 1 week ago |
curl --request POST --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/environments/stop_stale?before=10%2F10%2F2021"
Example response:
{
"message": "Successfully requested stop for all stale environments"
}