Installation page does not discuss how to set-up a private gitlab repo with SSh key

[benkkei]

[dholbach]

Are you referring to https://fluxcd.io/docs/installation/#gitlab-and-gitlab-enterprise?

[dholbach]

Have you seen https://fluxcd.io/docs/cmd/flux_bootstrap_gitlab/ as well? Maybe we should link to it from that section to cover additional use-cases..?

[benkkei]

Hello Daniel,

Yes indeed i am referring to the section at : https://fluxcd.io/docs/installation/#gitlab-and-gitlab-enterprise.

I haven't seen the CLI reference page but this one doesn't hint me in the correct direction it seems.

I very naively ran flux bootstrap gitlab --ssh-hostname=<gitlab-hostname> --hostname=<gitlab-hostname> --token-auth --owner=<owner group> --repository=flux --branch=master --path=clusters/dev-ocp4

Which created the following yaml manifest in the target repository:

# This manifest was generated by flux. DO NOT EDIT.
---
apiVersion: source.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v1beta1
kind: GitRepository
metadata:
  name: flux-system
  namespace: flux-system
spec:
  interval: 1m0s
  ref:
    branch: master
  secretRef:
    name: flux-system
  url: https://<gitlab-hostname>/<owner-group>/flux.git
---
apiVersion: kustomize.toolkit.fluxcd.io/v1beta2
kind: Kustomization
metadata:
  name: flux-system
  namespace: flux-system
spec:
  interval: 10m0s
  path: ./clusters/dev-ocp4
  prune: true
  sourceRef:
    kind: GitRepository
    name: flux-system

I also found this page https://fluxcd.io/docs/components/source/gitrepositories/#ssh-authentication. I edited the gitrepository object on OCP side to mention a "ssh url" and created the appropriate secrets , but as i am new to flux, I am not sure that this is the correct way to go (and flux is still not reconciliated with the repo anyway )