GitLab Setup

GitLab is our source control platform and CI/CD system.

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GitLab access is required. If you do not have access yet, request it here.

Install GitLab CLI

mise

mise use -g glab@latest

Or add to your .mise.toml:

[tools]
"ubi:gitlab-org/cli" = { version = "latest", exe = "glab", provider = "gitlab" }

Homebrew

brew install glab

Login to GitLab

Web Authentication

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You may need to re-login from time to time as your session expires.

Run the authentication command:

glab auth login

Follow the prompts and authenticate through your browser.

Personal Access Token

1. Login to GitLab via Okta
2. Go to GitLab → Preferences → Access Tokens
3. Create a token with api, read_repository, and write_repository scopes
4. Copy the token
5. Run the following command with your personal access token:

glab auth login --hostname gitlab.com -p https -g https --use-keyring --token glpat-xxx

Replace glpat-xxx with your actual token.

Verify Authentication

glab auth status

You should see: "✓ Logged in to gitlab.com as @username"

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