Redis®*: 5. GitLab CI

This documentation is part of the GitHub Actions & GitLab CI guide. You can view the complete guide here: Launch a real Redis service from your GitHub Actions or GitLab CI pipeline, run your tests against it, and automatically tear it down.

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You can save this configuration as .gitlab-ci.yml. With this setup, each pipeline run creates a new Redis instance for your tests.

test:
  image: ubuntu:24.04
  variables:
    STACK_NAME: "ci-redis-$CI_PIPELINE_ID-$CI_JOB_ID"
    INSTANCE: "1G"   # Change this as needed (see step 3)
    REGION: "europe"
    SERVICE_STORE: "redis"
  # STACKHERO_TOKEN comes from the CI/CD variable you created in step 1.
  script:
    - set -euo pipefail
    - curl -fsSL https://www.stackhero.io/install.sh | sh
    - apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends jq curl redis-tools
    - STACK_ID=$(stackhero --format=script stack-create --name="$STACK_NAME")
    - echo "STACK_ID=$STACK_ID" >> deploy.env
    - SERVICE_ID=$(stackhero --format=script service-add --stack="$STACK_ID" --service-store="$SERVICE_STORE" --instance="$INSTANCE" --region="$REGION")
    - echo "SERVICE_ID=$SERVICE_ID" >> deploy.env
    - stackhero service-wait-for --service="$SERVICE_ID"
    - config=$(stackhero service-configuration-get --service="$SERVICE_ID" --format=json)
    - host=$(echo "$config" | jq -r '.configuration.domain')
password=$(echo "$config" | jq -r '.configuration.credentials.password')
    # Send a PING and expect a PONG.
    - redis-cli -h "$host" -p 6380 -a "$password" --tls --no-auth-warning PING | grep -q PONG
    - echo "✅ Redis is reachable from CI."
    # You can run your own test suite here using the credentials above ...
  after_script:
    - test -f deploy.env && . ./deploy.env || true
    - >
      if [ -n "${SERVICE_ID:-}" ]; then
        stackhero service-delete --service="$SERVICE_ID" --confirm
        stackhero service-wait-for --service="$SERVICE_ID"
      fi
    - >
      if [ -n "${STACK_ID:-}" ]; then
        stackhero stack-delete --stack="$STACK_ID" --confirm
      fi

On GitLab, cleanup is performed in after_script. This section is always executed, even if the job fails, ensuring your Redis resources are deleted and you are not charged for unused resources.

In GitLab, after_script runs in a fresh shell. To handle this, the script writes the service and stack IDs to deploy.env during the job and reloads them before cleanup. This ensures that even if something fails mid-job, your resources are still deleted.

That is the complete CI lifecycle for Redis: create a stack, add the service, wait, retrieve credentials, smoke-test, and always tear down. Each pipeline run gets a real, isolated service, with nothing left running once you are finished. For more information about available commands and non-interactive STACKHERO_TOKEN authentication, you can refer to the full CLI documentation.

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