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Register your MettleCI Workbench public SSH key with GitLab
Ensure your the public SSH key from the DataStage Engine running MettleCI Workbench has been registered with your GitLab instance. You can do this by following the instructions here.
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Register MettleCI Workbench as an GitLab Application
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Note that there’s a confusing configuration dependency here:
MettleCI Workbench requires a GitLab Application ID in order to provide a Callback URL BUT a Callback URL is required by GitLab in order to provide you with an Application ID!
So, we address this by entering a provisional Callback URL and returning later to edit it with the actual Callback URL provided by the MettleCI Workbench.
Got to From the menu icon on the top banner and select Admin → Applications → New application
Name your application logically so GitLab administrators understand its function. Something like MettleCI Workbench {EngineName} might be a good example.
For your Redirect URI start by enter a provisional URL following the example given below (substituting your DataStage Engine URI to appropriate values)
http://your-engine.your-org.com:PORT/api/auth/delegated/2e.g
http://demo115-engn.dm-demo-datastage.datamigrators.io:8080/api/auth/delegated/2
Ensure the following checkboxes are selected:
Trusted
Confidential
Expire access tokens
Scopes
API
openid
For example…
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Click Save application and you’ll be presented with information about your registered application such as the Application
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ID, Secret, Callback URL, etc.
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From the Profile icon in the top-right of the MettleCI Workbench window select the menu item Issue Management.
On the resulting page click the [+] icon, in the top-right, to add a new issue management system.
Select GitLab as your Issue Management Type, then Next.
On the next page enter
A Name that will help you uniquely identify your GitLab instance,
The URL of your GitLab instance
The Application ID and Secret values you were presented by GitLab in the previous configuration step
Once complete, click Next. You’ll be presented with your list of registered Issue Management Systems including your newly-defined GitLab instance
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Select Manage Projects from the Profile icon in the top-right of the Workbench window.
Select the pencil icon alongside the DataStage project with which you wish to use GitLab issue lookup
At the bottom of the project configuration page select your newly - defined GitLab Issue management Service then click Update Project.
Test your GitLab Issue Lookup is working by Workbench
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Navigate to the Commit/Check-in page of the MettleCI Workbench
Type some text (minimum 3 characters) that matches title of one or more GitLab issues in your integrated GitLab instance. Matching issues will be presented as options in a drop-down menu.
Select the issue(s) you wish to associate with your commit and they’ll be added to the Work item(s) field
Click Check in to commit your asset to GitLab
Navigate to GitLab → Repository → Commits. Select your commit and verify that the specified Issue has been associated with it. e.g.
Click the Issue reference to verify that your Commit is referenced directly from the Issue. e.g.
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