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Environments API

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 owned by the authenticated user
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 
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.example.gitlab.com"
  }
]

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 owned by the authenticated user
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.example.gitlab.com"
  "last_deployment": {
    "id": 100,
    "iid": 34,
    "ref": "fdroid",
    "sha": "416d8ea11849050d3d1f5104cf8cf51053e790ab",
    "created_at": "2019-03-25T18:55:13.252Z",
    "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,
      "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 owned by the authenticated user
name string yes The name of the environment
external_url string no Place to link to for this environment 
curl --data "name=deploy&external_url=https://deploy.example.gitlab.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.example.gitlab.com"
}

Edit an existing environment

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 owned by the authenticated user
environment_id integer yes The ID of the environment
name string no The new name of the environment
external_url string no The new external_url 
curl --request PUT --data "name=staging&external_url=https://staging.example.gitlab.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.example.gitlab.com"
}

Delete an environment

It returns 204 if the environment was successfully deleted, and 404 if the environment does not exist.

DELETE /projects/:id/environments/:environment_id
Attribute Type Required Description
id integer/string yes The ID or URL-encoded path of the project owned by the authenticated user
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"

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 owned by the authenticated user
environment_id integer yes The ID of the environment 
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.example.gitlab.com"
}