Environments API (FREE ALL)

Support for GitLab CI/CD job token authentication introduced in GitLab 16.2.

List environments

Get all environments for a given project.

GET /projects/:id/environments

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
`id`	integer/string	yes	The ID or URL-encoded path of the project.
`name`	string	no	Return the environment with this name. Mutually exclusive with `search`.
`search`	string	no	Return list of environments matching the search criteria. Mutually exclusive with `name`. Must be at least 3 characters long.
`states`	string	no	List all environments that match a specific state. Accepted values: `available`, `stopping`, or `stopped`. If no state value given, returns all environments.

curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/environments?name=review%2Ffix-foo"

Example response:

[
  {
    "id": 1,
    "name": "review/fix-foo",
    "slug": "review-fix-foo-dfjre3",
    "external_url": "https://review-fix-foo-dfjre3.gitlab.example.com",
    "state": "available",
    "tier": "development",
    "created_at": "2019-05-25T18:55:13.252Z",
    "updated_at": "2019-05-27T18:55:13.252Z",
    "enable_advanced_logs_querying": false,
    "logs_api_path": "/project/-/logs/k8s.json?environment_name=review%2Ffix-foo"
  }
]

Get a specific environment

GET /projects/:id/environments/:environment_id

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
`id`	integer/string	yes	The ID or URL-encoded path of the project.
`environment_id`	integer	yes	The ID of the environment.

curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/environments/1"

Example of response

{
  "id": 1,
  "name": "review/fix-foo",
  "slug": "review-fix-foo-dfjre3",
  "external_url": "https://review-fix-foo-dfjre3.gitlab.example.com",
  "state": "available",
  "tier": "development",
  "created_at": "2019-05-25T18:55:13.252Z",
  "updated_at": "2019-05-27T18:55:13.252Z",
  "enable_advanced_logs_querying": false,
  "logs_api_path": "/project/-/logs/k8s.json?environment_name=review%2Ffix-foo",
  "last_deployment": {
    "id": 100,
    "iid": 34,
    "ref": "fdroid",
    "sha": "416d8ea11849050d3d1f5104cf8cf51053e790ab",
    "created_at": "2019-03-25T18:55:13.252Z",
    "status": "success",
    "user": {
      "id": 1,
      "name": "Administrator",
      "state": "active",
      "username": "root",
      "avatar_url": "http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/e64c7d89f26bd1972efa854d13d7dd61?s=80&d=identicon",
      "web_url": "http://localhost:3000/root"
    },
    "deployable": {
      "id": 710,
      "status": "success",
      "stage": "deploy",
      "name": "staging",
      "ref": "fdroid",
      "tag": false,
      "coverage": null,
      "created_at": "2019-03-25T18:55:13.215Z",
      "started_at": "2019-03-25T12:54:50.082Z",
      "finished_at": "2019-03-25T18:55:13.216Z",
      "duration": 21623.13423,
      "project": {
        "ci_job_token_scope_enabled": false
      },
      "user": {
        "id": 1,
        "name": "Administrator",
        "username": "root",
        "state": "active",
        "avatar_url": "http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/e64c7d89f26bd1972efa854d13d7dd61?s=80&d=identicon",
        "web_url": "http://gitlab.dev/root",
        "created_at": "2015-12-21T13:14:24.077Z",
        "bio": null,
        "location": null,
        "public_email": "",
        "skype": "",
        "linkedin": "",
        "twitter": "",
        "website_url": "",
        "organization": null
      },
      "commit": {
        "id": "416d8ea11849050d3d1f5104cf8cf51053e790ab",
        "short_id": "416d8ea1",
        "created_at": "2016-01-02T15:39:18.000Z",
        "parent_ids": [
          "e9a4449c95c64358840902508fc827f1a2eab7df"
        ],
        "title": "Removed fabric to fix #40",
        "message": "Removed fabric to fix #40\n",
        "author_name": "Administrator",
        "author_email": "admin@example.com",
        "authored_date": "2016-01-02T15:39:18.000Z",
        "committer_name": "Administrator",
        "committer_email": "admin@example.com",
        "committed_date": "2016-01-02T15:39:18.000Z"
      },
      "pipeline": {
        "id": 34,
        "sha": "416d8ea11849050d3d1f5104cf8cf51053e790ab",
        "ref": "fdroid",
        "status": "success",
        "web_url": "http://localhost:3000/Commit451/lab-coat/pipelines/34"
      },
      "web_url": "http://localhost:3000/Commit451/lab-coat/-/jobs/710",
      "artifacts": [
        {
          "file_type": "trace",
          "size": 1305,
          "filename": "job.log",
          "file_format": null
        }
      ],
      "runner": null,
      "artifacts_expire_at": null
    }
  }
}

Create a new environment

Creates a new environment with the given name and external_url.

It returns 201 if the environment was successfully created, 400 for wrong parameters.

POST /projects/:id/environments

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
`id`	integer/string	yes	The ID or URL-encoded path of the project.
`name`	string	yes	The name of the environment.
`external_url`	string	no	Place to link to for this environment.
`tier`	string	no	The tier of the new environment. Allowed values are `production`, `staging`, `testing`, `development`, and `other`.

curl --data "name=deploy&external_url=https://deploy.gitlab.example.com" \
     --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/environments"

Example response:

{
  "id": 1,
  "name": "deploy",
  "slug": "deploy",
  "external_url": "https://deploy.gitlab.example.com",
  "state": "available",
  "tier": "production",
  "created_at": "2019-05-25T18:55:13.252Z",
  "updated_at": "2019-05-27T18:55:13.252Z"
}

Update an existing environment

Parameter name removed in GitLab 16.0.

Updates an existing environment's name and/or external_url.

It returns 200 if the environment was successfully updated. In case of an error, a status code 400 is returned.

PUT /projects/:id/environments/:environments_id

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
`id`	integer/string	yes	The ID or URL-encoded path of the project.
`environment_id`	integer	yes	The ID of the environment.
`external_url`	string	no	The new `external_url`.
`tier`	string	no	The tier of the new environment. Allowed values are `production`, `staging`, `testing`, `development`, and `other`.

curl --request PUT --data "external_url=https://staging.gitlab.example.com" \
     --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/environments/1"

Example response:

{
  "id": 1,
  "name": "staging",
  "slug": "staging",
  "external_url": "https://staging.gitlab.example.com",
  "state": "available",
  "tier": "staging",
  "created_at": "2019-05-25T18:55:13.252Z",
  "updated_at": "2019-05-27T18:55:13.252Z"
}

Delete an environment

It returns 204 if the environment was successfully deleted, and 404 if the environment does not exist. The environment must be stopped first, otherwise the request returns 403.

DELETE /projects/:id/environments/:environment_id

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
`id`	integer/string	yes	The ID or URL-encoded path of the project.
`environment_id`	integer	yes	The ID of the environment.

curl --request DELETE --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/environments/1"

Delete multiple stopped review apps

Introduced in GitLab 14.2.

It schedules for deletion multiple environments that have already been stopped and are in the review app folder. The actual deletion is performed after 1 week from the time of execution. By default, it only deletes environments 30 days or older. You can change this default using the before parameter.

DELETE /projects/:id/environments/review_apps

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
`id`	integer/string	yes	The ID or URL-encoded path of the project.
`before`	datetime	no	The date before which environments can be deleted. Defaults to 30 days ago. Expected in ISO 8601 format (`YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ`).
`limit`	integer	no	Maximum number of environments to delete. Defaults to 100.
`dry_run`	boolean	no	Defaults to `true` for safety reasons. It performs a dry run where no actual deletion is performed. Set to `false` to actually delete the environment.

curl --request DELETE --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/environments/review_apps"

Example response:

{
  "scheduled_entries": [
    {
      "id": 387,
      "name": "review/023f1bce01229c686a73",
      "slug": "review-023f1bce01-3uxznk",
      "external_url": null
    },
    {
      "id": 388,
      "name": "review/85d4c26a388348d3c4c0",
      "slug": "review-85d4c26a38-5giw1c",
      "external_url": null
    }
  ],
  "unprocessable_entries": []
}

Stop an environment

It returns 200 if the environment was successfully stopped, and 404 if the environment does not exist.

POST /projects/:id/environments/:environment_id/stop

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
`id`	integer/string	yes	The ID or URL-encoded path of the project.
`environment_id`	integer	yes	The ID of the environment.
`force`	boolean	no	Force environment to stop without executing `on_stop` actions.

curl --request POST --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/environments/1/stop"

Example response:

{
  "id": 1,
  "name": "deploy",
  "slug": "deploy",
  "external_url": "https://deploy.gitlab.example.com",
  "state": "stopped",
  "created_at": "2019-05-25T18:55:13.252Z",
  "updated_at": "2019-05-27T18:55:13.252Z"
}

Stop stale environments

Issue stop request to all environments that were last modified or deployed to before a specified date. Excludes protected environments. Returns 200 if stop request was successful and 400 if the before date is invalid. For details of exactly when the environment is stopped, see Stop an environment.

POST /projects/:id/environments/stop_stale

Attribute	Type	Required	Description
`id`	integer/string	yes	The ID or URL-encoded path of the project.
`before`	date	yes	Stop environments that have been modified or deployed to before the specified date. Expected in ISO 8601 format (`2019-03-15T08:00:00Z`). Valid inputs are between 10 years ago and 1 week ago

curl --request POST --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/environments/stop_stale?before=10%2F10%2F2021"

Example response:

{
  "message": "Successfully requested stop for all stale environments"
}