community.general.gitlab_hook module – Manages GitLab project hooks

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 10.1.0).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.gitlab_hook.

Synopsis

  • Adds, updates and removes project hook

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

api_job_token

string

added in community.general 4.2.0

GitLab CI job token for logging in.

api_oauth_token

string

added in community.general 4.2.0

GitLab OAuth token for logging in.

api_password

string

The password to use for authentication against the API.

api_token

string

GitLab access token with API permissions.

api_url

string

The resolvable endpoint for the API.

api_username

string

The username to use for authentication against the API.

ca_path

string

added in community.general 8.1.0

The CA certificates bundle to use to verify GitLab server certificate.

hook_url

string / required

The url that you want GitLab to post to, this is used as the primary key for updates and deletion.

hook_validate_certs

aliases: enable_ssl_verification

boolean

Whether GitLab will do SSL verification when triggering the hook.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

issues_events

boolean

Trigger hook on issues events.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

job_events

boolean

Trigger hook on job events.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

merge_requests_events

boolean

Trigger hook on merge requests events.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

note_events

boolean

Trigger hook on note events or when someone adds a comment.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

pipeline_events

boolean

Trigger hook on pipeline events.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

project

string / required

Id or Full path of the project in the form of group/name.

push_events

boolean

Trigger hook on push events.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

push_events_branch_filter

string

added in community.general 0.2.0

Branch name of wildcard to trigger hook on push events

Default: ""

releases_events

boolean

added in community.general 8.4.0

Trigger hook on release events.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

state

string

When present the hook will be updated to match the input or created if it doesn’t exist.

When absent hook will be deleted if it exists.

Choices:

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "absent"

tag_push_events

boolean

Trigger hook on tag push events.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

token

string

Secret token to validate hook messages at the receiver.

If this is present it will always result in a change as it cannot be retrieved from GitLab.

Will show up in the X-GitLab-Token HTTP request header.

validate_certs

boolean

Whether or not to validate SSL certs when supplying a HTTPS endpoint.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

wiki_page_events

boolean

Trigger hook on wiki events.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

check_mode

Support: full

Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction without modifying target.

diff_mode

Support: none

Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in check_mode), when in diff mode.

Examples

- name: "Adding a project hook"
  community.general.gitlab_hook:
    api_url: https://gitlab.example.com/
    api_token: "{{ access_token }}"
    project: "my_group/my_project"
    hook_url: "https://my-ci-server.example.com/gitlab-hook"
    state: present
    push_events: true
    tag_push_events: true
    token: "my-super-secret-token-that-my-ci-server-will-check"

- name: "Delete the previous hook"
  community.general.gitlab_hook:
    api_url: https://gitlab.example.com/
    api_token: "{{ access_token }}"
    project: "my_group/my_project"
    hook_url: "https://my-ci-server.example.com/gitlab-hook"
    state: absent

- name: "Delete a hook by numeric project id"
  community.general.gitlab_hook:
    api_url: https://gitlab.example.com/
    api_token: "{{ access_token }}"
    project: 10
    hook_url: "https://my-ci-server.example.com/gitlab-hook"
    state: absent

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key

Description

error

string

the error message returned by the GitLab API

Returned: failed

Sample: "400: path is already in use"

hook

dictionary

API object

Returned: always

msg

string

Success or failure message

Returned: always

Sample: "Success"

result

dictionary

json parsed response from the server

Returned: always

Authors

  • Marcus Watkins (@marwatk)

  • Guillaume Martinez (@Lunik)