Create Gitlab Access Token and CI/CD variables

Next, we will create a Gitlab personal access token for accessing the registry and for Flux to authenticate to GitLab. Select the icon in the upper left corner to access User Settings, then select Preferences. This icon is unique per user and is located to the right of the + sign near the tanuki icon.

Select Access Tokens. Select Add new token

Give it a name, select the expiration date of a week from now and select the following under Select scopes:

• api
• write_repository
• write_registry

Select the Create personal access token button to create the token. Select the clipboard icon to copy the token.

Save this value to notepad or another editor for later in this workshop

Add a CI/CD variable with the token

Navigate back to YOUR project by hitting the tanuki icon in the upper left and then selecting the link for YOUR project. Do not select workshops/GitOps-Flux

From the Settings menu, select CI/CD.

Select the expand button next to the Variables section. Select Add variable.

Enter ACCESS_TOKEN in the Key field and paste the value of the token into the Value field. Select the Mask variable box, unselect the Protect variable box and select Add variable.