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Given the following very simple .gitlab-ci.yml pipeline:

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variables:
  KEYCLOAK_VERSION: 20.0.1 # this should be populated from reading a file from the repo...

stages:
  - test

build:
  stage: test
  script:
    - echo "$KEYCLOAK_VERSION"

As you might see, this simply outputs the value of KEYCLOAK_VERSION defined in the variables section.

Now, the Git repository contains a env.properties file with KEYCLOAK_VERSION=20.0.1 as content. How would I read the variable from that file and use it in the GitLab pipeline?

The documentation mentions import but this seems to be using YAML files.

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To read variables from a file you can use the source or . command.

script:
  - source env.properties
  - echo $KEYCLOAK_VERSION

Attention: One reason why you might not want to do it this way is because whatever is in env.properties will be run in your shell, such as rm -rf /, which could be very dangerous.

Maybe you can take a look here for some other solutions.

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