GitLab CLI, Run To GitLab's Door
glab on EL 10 from the GitLab-hosted release, get_url refuses it unless its SHA-256 is the one in the vendor's checksums file, and the live test re-checks it, then runs auth status to the 401 gitlab.com returns and round-trips a config value offline. Pinned. Original role, live-tested on Rocky Linux 10.
Verification
Live-testedReally deployed to a container sandbox, proven idempotent (a second run changes nothing), verified against the role’s assertions, then torn down.
Conformance
- Static validation (yamllint · ansible-lint)
Provenance
- SHA-256 checksum
- Signature (pending)
Functional
- Live-tested - applied, verified, destroyed
Last verified 2026-09-21 · podman 4.9.3 · ansible 2.21.4 · how we verify
Documentation
glab
GitLab glab on EL 10 from the vendor's release, checked against the
published SHA-256, pinned to a version, installed as root's binary
in /usr/local/bin. Original role for EL 10, live-tested with podman on
Rocky Linux 10.
No package worth the name. EL 10 carries no glab, and a
third-party repository is one more key to trust. This role takes the
release from gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cli, has Ansible's get_url refuse the asset unless
its SHA-256 is the published one, and the live test checks the asset on
disk against the same published value again.
Pinned. glab_version is what gets installed, kept in a directory
of its own so the checksum file and the asset it names stay together. A
newer release is a variable change and a run; the same version is
changed=0.
Proven to run. The live test runs glab auth status and expects
"401" - the binary ran all the way to the point where it
needed something this host does not have.
Run to GitLab's door. With an empty configuration directory glab auth status asks gitlab.com who it is and reports the 401 it gets back,
the point where a token would be needed; the live test expects that.
glab config set/get round-trips a value through the same directory
offline. Authentication is glab auth login with a personal access
token or GITLAB_TOKEN; a self-managed instance is --hostname. The
release is hosted on GitLab, not GitHub: the download URL is the
project's -/releases/v<v>/downloads/ path, and the tarball holds
bin/glab.
License
Commercial - IaC Bazaar EULA. (c) IaC Bazaar.
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