Deployment from Gitlab CI

Questions / Help
1

Hey folks.

I have a gitlab pipeline that builds release containers and I’d like to add a step which can do the fly deploy step using the —image argument, however I’m using the flyio/flyctl container and of course it cannot access the image. Any suggestions?

Here’s my deploy step:


deploy application:
  image: docker:latest
  stage: deploy
  only:
    - tags
    - /^v\d+\.\d+\.\d+(-\w+)?$/
  needs:
    - job: push tagged release to gitlab registry
      artifacts: false
  services:
    - docker:dind
  variables:
    DOCKER_HOST: tcp://docker:2375/
    DOCKER_DRIVER: overlay
    DOCKER_TLS_CERTDIR: ""
  before_script:
    - echo ${CI_BUILD_TOKEN} | docker login -u gitlab-ci-token --password-stdin ${CI_REGISTRY}
  script:
    - docker pull ${CONTAINER_REGISTRY}/release:${CI_COMMIT_TAG}
    - docker run --rm -e FLY_APP=${FLY_APP} -e FLY_ACCESS_TOKEN=${FLY_ACCESS_TOKEN} flyio/flyctl:latest deploy --image ${CONTAINER_REGISTRY}/release:${CI_COMMIT_TAG}
  environment:
    name: production
    url: https://tummie.app/
2

The simplest thing to do here is just to install flyctl directly, we have some instructions here: Continuous Deployment with GitLab · Fly

Then you should be able to run fly deploy -i <image> with no issues.

3

Thanks!