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Deploy to Rill Cloud from Gitlab

While Rill Cloud natively integrates with Github, you can also deploy your Rill project from Gitlab using direct uploads from a Gitlab CI/CD pipeline.

Follow these steps to setup continuous deployment from Gitlab to Rill Cloud:

  1. Create a new Gitlab repository and push your Rill project to it.

  2. On your local, authenticate with Rill Cloud and create an organization (replace my-org-name with your desired name):

rill login
rill org create my-org-name
  1. Provision a Rill Cloud service account called gitlab-ci and copy its access token:
rill service create gitlab-ci

  1. Set the service token as a CI/CD variable called RILL_SERVICE_TOKEN in Gitlab (from the repository page, it's under Settings > CI/CD > Variables).

  2. Create a file named .gitlab-ci.yml at the root of the repository containing your Rill project. Paste the following contents into it (replace my-org-name and my-project-name with your desired names):

deploy-rill-cloud:
  stage: deploy
  script:
    - curl -L -o $HOME/rill.zip https://cdn.rilldata.com/rill/latest/rill_linux_amd64.zip 
    - unzip -d $HOME $HOME/rill.zip 
    - $HOME/rill project upload --org my-org-name --name my-project-name --interactive=false --api-token $RILL_SERVICE_TOKEN

Your Rill project should now automatically deploy to ui.rilldata.com/my-org-name/my-project-name each time changes are pushed to Gitlab!