Automation Gateway Copy File from Gitlab

Table of Contents

• Overview
• Installation Prerequisites
• Requirements
• Features
• How to Install
• How to Run
• Additional Information

Overview

This Pre-Built Automation enables users to copy a file from a Gitlab repository to an IAG server.

Estimated Run Time: 0 min.

Installation Prerequisites

Users must satisfy the following pre-requisites:

Itential Automation Platform

2022.1

Create an authentication token in Gitlab to put into the Gitlab adapter configuration.

Sample Gitlab adapter configuration:

{
    "name": "gitlab",
    "model": "@itentialopensource/adapter-gitlab",
    "type": "Adapter",
    "properties": {
        "id": "gitlab",
        "type": "Gitlab",
        "properties": {
            "host": "gitlab.com",
            "port": 443,
            "base_path": "/api",
            "version": "v4",
            "cache_location": "local",
            "save_metric": true,
            "stub": false,
            "protocol": "https",
            "authentication": {
                "auth_method": "static_token",
                "username": "",
                "password": "",
                "auth_field": "header.headers.Private-Token",
                "auth_field_format": "{token}",
                "token": "************************",
                "invalid_token_error": 401,
                "token_timeout": 0,
                "token_cache": "local"
            },
            "healthcheck": {
                "type": "startup",
                "frequency": 300000
            },
            "request": {
                "number_retries": 3,
                "limit_retry_error": 401,
                "failover_codes": [
                    404,
                    405
                ],
                "attempt_timeout": 5000,
                "global_request": {
                    "payload": {},
                    "uriOptions": {},
                    "addlHeaders": {},
                    "authData": {}
                },
                "healthcheck_on_timeout": false,
                "return_raw": false,
                "archiving": false
            },
            "ssl": {
                "ecdhCurve": "",
                "enabled": false,
                "accept_invalid_cert": false,
                "ca_file": "",
                "secure_protocol": "",
                "ciphers": ""
            },
            "throttle": {
                "throttle_enabled": false,
                "number_pronghorns": 1,
                "sync_async": "sync",
                "max_in_queue": 1000,
                "concurrent_max": 1,
                "expire_timeout": 0,
                "avg_runtime": 200
            },
            "proxy": {
                "enabled": false,
                "host": "localhost",
                "port": 9999,
                "protocol": "http"
            },
            "mongo": {
                "host": "",
                "port": 0,
                "database": "",
                "username": "",
                "password": ""
            }
        },
        "brokers": [],
        "groups": []
    },
    "isEncrypted": false,
    "loggerProps": {
        "description": "Logging",
        "log_max_files": 100,
        "log_max_file_size": 1048576,
        "log_level": "info",
        "log_directory": "./logs",
        "log_filename": "pronghorn.log",
        "console_level": "info"    
        }
}

Copy this helper script to the destination IAG server and customize it for the environment. Name it "import_playbook.pl" and make it executable and make sure it is in a path that is configured as a script path in properties.yml for the IAG server.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use MIME::Base64;

# NOTE: adjust this to a path in the configured playbook paths in properties.yml
my $basePath = "/usr/share/ansible/playbooks/";
my $filename = $ARGV[0];
my $content = $ARGV[1];

my $fullfile = $basePath . $filename;

my $decoded = decode_base64(decode_base64($content));

print "Writing playbook to $fullfile\n";

open(FH, '>', $fullfile) or die	$!;
print FH $content;
close(FH);

print "Done.";

Requirements

This Pre-Built requires the following:

• The Automation Gateway Adapter must be installed
• The Gitlab adapter must be installed

Features

The main benefits and features of the Pre-Built are outlined below.

• This will copy a file from a Gitlab repository to an Itential Automation Gateway server.

How to Install

To install the Pre-Built:

• Verify you are running a supported version of the Itential Automation Platform (IAP) as listed above in the Requirements section in order to install the Pre-Built.
• The Pre-Built can be installed from within App-Admin_Essential. Simply search for the name of your desired Pre-Built and click the install button (as shown below).

How to Run

Use the following to run the Pre-Built:

Run the automation from Operations Manager, fill in the form values and select start.

Hover over the blue tool tips next to each form field for more details. Sample form values have been provided below as an example.

Use the Gitlab repository ID from the project you would like to copy a file from. It is located on the main page for the project under the project name.

Additional Information

Please use your Itential Customer Success account if you need support when using this Pre-Built Transformation.