Gitlab-CI for ios application scripts and files

Our detailed BLOG

Technologies

• gitlab - GitLab is a web-based DevOps lifecycle tool that provides a Git-repository manager providing wiki, issue-tracking and CI/CD pipeline[7] features, using an open-source license, developed by GitLab Inc
• fastlane - bunch of tools for handling all tedious tasks, like generating screenshots, dealing with code signing, and releasing your application.

Prerequisites

1. Computer (Macintosh)
2. Mac OS >= Darwin Kernel Version 18.5.0 ( MacOS catalina )
3. ruby >= 3.6.5
4. rbenv
5. fastlane (could be updated to last version by user)
6. XCode
7. Apple ID (for both Developer Portal and iTunes connect)
8. gitlab-runner

Description

Full description is available in our blog

Environment variables

• APPLE_ID - your apple id
• APP_ID - your application id
• FASTLANE_PASSWORD - password for your apple id
• KEYCHAIN_PASSWORD - password for your mac user
• MATCH_PASSWORD - passphrase to decrypt your profiles
• MATCH_URL - git url where your certificates are stored
• TEAM_ID - your team id
• XCODE_PROJ - path to your *.xcodeproj file
• XCWORKSPACE - path to your *.xcworkspace
• APP_NAME - your application name. for example "Staging"
• APP_ID_NAME - your application id name. for example "your.cool.app.com"
• PLIST_PATH - path to plist file.
• GSP_PATH - path to plist file for google.
• CONFIG - release|debug

The roadmap

• [*] Speed up upload to testflight
• [*] Add comments
• Speed up build process