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GitLab

GitLab

Connect Aiden with your GitLab repositories to get intelligent assistance with code management, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD workflows. Once enabled, Aiden becomes your DevOps coding partner, helping you manage configurations, troubleshoot pipelines, and implement best practices through natural conversations.

GitLab is a DevOps platform that combines source control, CI/CD, and project management. By integrating GitLab with Aiden, you can build a knowledge base from your repositories and act on your code and pipelines conversationally.

Integration Capabilities​

With GitLab integration, Aiden can:

  • Automatically build a knowledge base from your repositories.
  • Review and optimize Infrastructure as Code.
  • Generate and update IaC configurations.
  • Create developer self-service workflows.
  • Provide security recommendations for Dockerfiles and Kubernetes manifests.
  • Set up and configure CI/CD pipelines.
  • Debug CI/CD pipeline issues.
  • Create merge requests with suggested improvements.
  • Manage repository configurations.
  • Analyze code dependencies and configurations.

Enable GitLab Integration​

Prerequisites​

Before enabling the integration, ensure:

  • You have an active GitLab account with appropriate permissions.
  • You can create a Personal Access Token or Project Access Token with the api scope.
  • For self-managed GitLab, you know the base URL of your instance.

Generate GitLab Token​

To integrate with Aiden, you will need a GitLab access token:

  1. Log in to your GitLab account.
  2. Create a Personal Access Token (under your user Preferences > Access tokens) or a Project Access Token (under a project's Settings > Access tokens).
  3. Grant the token the api scope.
  4. Copy the generated token.
Security best practices
  • Create a token with the minimum required permissions and scope.
  • Limit project access to only what is necessary.
  • Rotate the token regularly.
  • Consider using required reviews for Aiden-generated merge requests.

Steps to Enable GitLab Integration​

Follow these steps to enable the integration:

  1. From the Aiden home page, click Integrations from the navigation panel to the left.
  2. Hover and click the Activate button on the GitLab Integration card.
  3. Enter the integration configuration parameters:
    • Configuration Name: A descriptive name for this integration configuration (e.g., GitLab, Platform).
    • Configuration Description (optional): Additional details about this configuration.
    • GitLab Token: The Personal or Project Access Token you generated (with api scope).
    • GitLab URL (optional): The base URL of your self-managed GitLab instance (for example, https://gitlab.example.com). Leave blank for GitLab SaaS.
  4. Click Save to enable the integration.

Sample Prompts​

Here are some sample prompts you can use with the GitLab integration:

  • Review the Terraform changes in merge request !245 in the acme/iac project.
  • Improve the security of the cart-service Dockerfile.
  • What is causing the pipeline failure in the auth-service project?
  • Generate a .gitlab-ci.yml for Node.js testing similar to the auth-service.
  • Create a merge request to optimize our Kubernetes resource configs.
  • Help me understand the structure of our Ansible playbooks.

Additional References​

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