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Installing Mayil’s GitLab integration

Follow these steps to link GitLab to a deployed Mayil instance

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1. Install Mayil-bot on GitLab

Mayil is installed at the Group level. To learn more, see docs.gitlab.com/integration.

  1. Go to the desired group.
  2. On the left sidebar, select Settings > Applications.
  3. Select Add new application
  4. Enter Mayil-bot under Name.
  5. Under URI, enter <mayil-deployment>/gitlab/auth where <mayil-deployment> is the url in which your mayil deployment can be found (such as mayil.examplecompany.com or companyname.mayil.ai)
  6. Select only the read_repository OAuth 2 scope.
  7. Select Save application. GitLab provides:

    • The OAuth 2 Client ID in the Application ID field.

    • The OAuth 2 Client Secret, accessible by selecting Copy in the Secret field.

    • The Renew secret function

    • The redirect uri you provided Save these details for the next step.

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2. Authenticate Mayil’s backend using OAuth 2.0

We will need to manually authenticate Mayil’s backend to work with our newly installed application. For more details, see docs.gitlab.com/authorization

  1. Construct this link using the details we got from the previous step-

    https://<GITLAB INSTANCE>/oauth/authorize?client_id=<APP_ID>&redirect_uri=<REDIRECT_URI>&response_type=code&state=STATE&scope=read_repository

  2. Open the above constructed link in a browser and follow the authentication steps.

  3. You should be redirected to Mayil’s deployment and see a {"status": "gitlab authenticated"} message.

This completes setting up Mayil’s GitLab integration

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Deleting Mayil’s GitLab integration

  1. On the left sidebar, select Settings > Applications
  2. Open Mayil-bot and select Destroy