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Usage of GitLab preview bot

The GitLab integration guide explains how to provide personal access token for Fru.io platform to interact with GitLab. The Fru Preview bot requires the api scope.

You can create new sites on Fru.io from each repository the personal access token grants access to. With the Fru Preview bot, you can also clone existing sites and deploy them with code directly from a merge request as preview site for testing purposes. The commands are triggered as merge request comments- all you have to do is to post the following:

/Fru-live-preview-site

The bot will build your Preview site and return a URL.

There are three pre-conditions for the Fru Preview bot to be able to create preview sites:

  • The Repository has to be within the scope of the personal access token you used to set up credentials.
  • The Command has to be triggered by the merge request author.
  • The Existing origin site on Fru.io references the repository and merge request's base branch. This is used as a reference to copy the database and file assets.

A list of supported commands for the bot is available at https://docs.fru.io/ preview-bot.

Last update: 2021-09-21