Question

How to run doctl from Gitlab CI?

Posted on January 21, 2023
DigitalOcean API and CLI (doctl)DigitalOcean App Platform CI/CD Git
Asked by FloatingAquaMorel

Im trying to deploy my app from Gitlab CI, here is my gitlab-ci.yml

"Deploy to DigitalOcean":
  image: digitalocean/doctl:latest
  stage: deploy
  needs:
    - job: "Test Docker build"
  script:
    - doctl auth init
    - /app/doctl apps create-deployment XXX
  only:
    - master

Also I added the DIGITALOCEAN_ACCESS_TOKEN variable with my personal token. But I got an error

``Successfully extracted cache  ``Executing "step_script" stage of the job script 00:00 
``Using docker image sha256:16287ffaf3b998b10c7348803f2372d99b9daadc1f5ded9aab957f6b2b34a7e3 for digitalocean/doctl:latest with digest digitalocean/doctl@sha256:d612c781afeb2720393e32312ef19af545b5c69b933a02bcd83e3e2bda874802 ... 
``Error: unknown command "sh" for "doctl"
``Run 'doctl --help' for usage.
``Cleaning up project directory and file based variables 00:01
``ERROR: Job failed: exit code 255

How can I trigger DigitalOcean from my CI pipeline? I don’t want to use deploy_on_push feature, because it ignores my pipelines and deploy app even when my CI/CD is red.

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FloatingAquaMorel • January 21, 2023

Accepted Answer

I had to mix the @Bobby Iliev answer and hint from this SO answer.

Here is the final gitlab-ci.yml job:

"Deploy to DigitalOcean":
  image:
    name: digitalocean/doctl:latest
    entrypoint: [""]
  stage: deploy
  needs:
    - job: "Test Docker image"
  script:
    - /app/doctl auth init
    - /app/doctl apps create-deployment $DIGITALOCEAN_STUDENT_BACKEND_ID
  only:
    - master

Bobby Iliev

Site Moderator

• January 21, 2023

Hi there,

As you are getting Error: unknown command "sh" for "doctl", I think that you need to update the first doctl line from:

  script:
    - doctl auth init
    - /app/doctl apps create-deployment XXX

To:

  script:
    - /app/doctl auth init
    - /app/doctl apps create-deployment XXX

Let me know how it goes!

Best,

Bobby

amostsai • August 4, 2023

deploy: stage: deploy image: name: digitalocean/doctl:1.97.1 entrypoint: [“”] script: - /app/doctl auth init - /app/doctl compute droplet create my-app --image docker-18-04 --size s-1vcpu-1gb --region nyc1 only: - main