community.general.gitlab_label module – Creates/updates/deletes GitLab Labels belonging to project or group.

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 9.4.0).

It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.gitlab_label.

New in community.general 8.3.0

Synopsis

  • When a label does not exist, it will be created.

  • When a label does exist, its value will be updated when the values are different.

  • Labels can be purged.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

api_job_token

string

added in community.general 4.2.0

GitLab CI job token for logging in.

api_oauth_token

string

added in community.general 4.2.0

GitLab OAuth token for logging in.

api_password

string

The password to use for authentication against the API.

api_token

string

GitLab access token with API permissions.

api_url

string

The resolvable endpoint for the API.

api_username

string

The username to use for authentication against the API.

ca_path

string

added in community.general 8.1.0

The CA certificates bundle to use to verify GitLab server certificate.

group

string

The path of the group. Either this or project is required.

labels

list / elements=dictionary

A list of dictionaries that represents gitlab project’s or group’s labels.

Default: []

color

string

The color of the label.

Required when state=present.

description

string

Label’s description.

name

string / required

The name of the label.

new_name

string

Optional field to change label’s name.

priority

integer

Integer value to give priority to the label.

project

string

The path and name of the project. Either this or group is required.

purge

boolean

When set to true, delete all labels which are not mentioned in the task.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

state

string

Create or delete project or group label.

Choices:

  • "present" ← (default)

  • "absent"

validate_certs

boolean

Whether or not to validate SSL certs when supplying a HTTPS endpoint.

Choices:

  • false

  • true ← (default)

Attributes

Attribute

Support

Description

check_mode

Support: full

Can run in check_mode and return changed status prediction without modifying target.

diff_mode

Support: none

Will return details on what has changed (or possibly needs changing in check_mode), when in diff mode.

Examples

# same project's task can be executed for group
- name: Create one Label
  community.general.gitlab_label:
    api_url: https://gitlab.com
    api_token: secret_access_token
    project: "group1/project1"
    labels:
      - name: label_one
        color: "#123456"
    state: present

- name: Create many group labels
  community.general.gitlab_label:
    api_url: https://gitlab.com
    api_token: secret_access_token
    group: "group1"
    labels:
      - name: label_one
        color: "#123456"
        description: this is a label
        priority: 20
      - name: label_two
        color: "#554422"
    state: present

- name: Create many project labels
  community.general.gitlab_label:
    api_url: https://gitlab.com
    api_token: secret_access_token
    project: "group1/project1"
    labels:
      - name: label_one
        color: "#123456"
        description: this is a label
        priority: 20
      - name: label_two
        color: "#554422"
    state: present

- name: Set or update some labels
  community.general.gitlab_label:
    api_url: https://gitlab.com
    api_token: secret_access_token
    project: "group1/project1"
    labels:
      - name: label_one
        color: "#224488"
    state: present

- name: Add label in check mode
  community.general.gitlab_label:
    api_url: https://gitlab.com
    api_token: secret_access_token
    project: "group1/project1"
    labels:
      - name: label_one
        color: "#224488"
    check_mode: true

- name: Delete Label
  community.general.gitlab_label:
    api_url: https://gitlab.com
    api_token: secret_access_token
    project: "group1/project1"
    labels:
      - name: label_one
    state: absent

- name: Change Label name
  community.general.gitlab_label:
    api_url: https://gitlab.com
    api_token: secret_access_token
    project: "group1/project1"
    labels:
      - name: label_one
        new_name: label_two
    state: absent

- name: Purge all labels
  community.general.gitlab_label:
    api_url: https://gitlab.com
    api_token: secret_access_token
    project: "group1/project1"
    purge: true

- name: Delete many labels
  community.general.gitlab_label:
    api_url: https://gitlab.com
    api_token: secret_access_token
    project: "group1/project1"
    state: absent
    labels:
      - name: label-abc123
      - name: label-two

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key

Description

labels

dictionary

Four lists of the labels which were added, updated, removed or exist.

Returned: success

added

list / elements=string

A list of labels which were created.

Returned: always

Sample: ["abcd", "label-one"]

removed

list / elements=string

A list of labels which were deleted.

Returned: always

Sample: ["defg", "new-label"]

untouched

list / elements=string

A list of labels which exist.

Returned: always

Sample: ["defg", "new-label"]

updated

list / elements=string

A list pre-existing labels whose values have been set.

Returned: always

Sample: ["defg", "new-label"]

labels_obj

dictionary

API object.

Returned: success

Authors

  • Gabriele Pongelli (@gpongelli)