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Jérome Perrin
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Achilleas Pipinellis
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@@ -31,7 +31,16 @@ In the image above you can see that the `add-new-line` branch was successfully
built and deployed under a dynamic environment and can be previewed with an
also dynamically URL.
---
The details of the Review Apps implementation depend widely on your real
technology stack and on your deployment process. The simplest case it to
deploy a simple static HTML website, but it will not be that straightforward
when your app is using a database for example. To make a branch be deployed
on a temporary instance and booting up this instance with all required software
and services automatically on the fly is not a trivial task. However, it is
doable, especially if you use Docker, or at least a configuration management
tool like Chef, Puppet, Ansible or Salt.
## Prerequisites
To get a better understanding of Review Apps, you must first learn how
environments and deployments work. The following docs will help you grasp that
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## Configuration
For configuration examples see the [dynamic environments] documentation.
The configuration of Review apps depends on your technology stack and your
infrastructure. Read the [dynamic environments] documentation to understand
how to define and create them.
## Creating and destroying Review Apps
The creation and destruction of a Review App is defined in
`.gitlab-ci.yml`
.
The creation and destruction of a Review App is defined in
`.gitlab-ci.yml`
at a job level under the
`environment`
keyword.
Check the [environments] documentation how to do so.
## A simple workflow
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The process of adding Review Apps in your workflow would look like:
1.
Set up the infrastructure to host and deploy the Review Apps.
1.
Install and configure a Runner that does the deployment.
1.
[
Install
][
install-runner
]
and
[
configure
][
conf-runner
]
a Runner that does
the deployment.
1.
Set up a job in
`.gitlab-ci.yml`
that uses the predefined
[
predefined CI environment variable
][
variables
]
`${CI_BUILD_REF_NAME}`
to
create dynamic environments and restrict it to run only on branches.
1.
Optionally set a job that
stops
the Review Apps.
1.
Optionally set a job that
[
manually stops
][
manual-env
]
the Review Apps.
From there on, you would follow the branched Git flow:
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[
merge request
]:
../../user/project/merge_requests.md
[
variables
]:
../variables/README.md
[
yaml-env
]:
../yaml/README.md#environment
[
install-runner
]:
https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/install/
[
conf-runner
]:
https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/commands/
[
manual-env
]:
../environments.md#stopping-an-environment
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