How to Upload Environment Variables to GitLab CI/CD

To implement CI/CD Gitlab 🦊provides an easy to use interface that you can set and help your project develop faster. Here I share the process I use to add CI/CD variables to a project in Gitlab.

In Gitlab goto left side bar, Settings, CI/CD

Go to variables section, click add variable

From right side bar select select visible and deselect protect variable

In Key write the name of the file that will store all the variables

In value enter the key and values of your variables (values are written without ")

Make sure that your yml script adds the env vars file

.gitlab-ci.yml

test:
  stage: test
  image: node:22
  before_script:
    - cat "$ENV_VARS" | tr -d '\r' > .env

Now you are ready to integrate the variables to your project and make it evolve. Keep coding dev-san 💻

More Info

Gitlab Documentation CI Variables