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# Environments API **(FREE)**
## List environments
Get all environments for a given project.
```plaintext
GET /projects/:id/environments
```
| Attribute | Type | Required | Description |
| --------- | ------- | -------- |-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| `id` | integer/string | yes | The ID or [URL-encoded path of the project](index.md#namespaced-path-encoding) 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` |
| `states` | string | no | List all environments that match a specific state. Accepted values: `available`, `stopping`, or `stopped`. If no state value given, returns all environments. |
```shell
curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/environments?name=review%2Ffix-foo"
```
Example response:
```json
[
{
"id": 1,
"name": "review/fix-foo",
"slug": "review-fix-foo-dfjre3",
"external_url": "https://review-fix-foo-dfjre3.gitlab.example.com",
"state": "available",
"tier": "development",
"created_at": "2019-05-25T18:55:13.252Z",
"updated_at": "2019-05-27T18:55:13.252Z",
"enable_advanced_logs_querying": false,
"logs_api_path": "/project/-/logs/k8s.json?environment_name=review%2Ffix-foo",
"last_deployment": {
"id": 100,
"iid": 34,
"ref": "fdroid",
"sha": "416d8ea11849050d3d1f5104cf8cf51053e790ab",
"created_at": "2019-03-25T18:55:13.252Z",
"status": "success",
"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,
"project": {
"ci_job_token_scope_enabled": false
},
"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
}
}
]
```
## Get a specific environment
```plaintext
GET /projects/:id/environments/:environment_id
```
| Attribute | Type | Required | Description |
|-----------|---------|----------|---------------------|
| `id` | integer/string | yes | The ID or [URL-encoded path of the project](index.md#namespaced-path-encoding) owned by the authenticated user |
| `environment_id` | integer | yes | The ID of the environment |
```shell
curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/environments/1"
```
Example of response
```json
{
"id": 1,
"name": "review/fix-foo",
"slug": "review-fix-foo-dfjre3",
"external_url": "https://review-fix-foo-dfjre3.gitlab.example.com",
"state": "available",
"tier": "development",
"created_at": "2019-05-25T18:55:13.252Z",
"updated_at": "2019-05-27T18:55:13.252Z",
"enable_advanced_logs_querying": false,
"logs_api_path": "/project/-/logs/k8s.json?environment_name=review%2Ffix-foo",
"last_deployment": {
"id": 100,
"iid": 34,
"ref": "fdroid",
"sha": "416d8ea11849050d3d1f5104cf8cf51053e790ab",
"created_at": "2019-03-25T18:55:13.252Z",
"status": "success",
"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,
"project": {
"ci_job_token_scope_enabled": false
},
"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.
```plaintext
POST /projects/:id/environments
```
| Attribute | Type | Required | Description |
| ------------- | ------- | -------- | ---------------------------- |
| `id` | integer/string | yes | The ID or [URL-encoded path of the project](index.md#namespaced-path-encoding) owned by the authenticated user |
| `name` | string | yes | The name of the environment |
| `external_url` | string | no | Place to link to for this environment |
| `tier` | string | no | The tier of the new environment. Allowed values are `production`, `staging`, `testing`, `development`, and `other` |
```shell
curl --data "name=deploy&external_url=https://deploy.gitlab.example.com" \
--header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/environments"
```
Example response:
```json
{
"id": 1,
"name": "deploy",
"slug": "deploy",
"external_url": "https://deploy.gitlab.example.com",
"state": "available",
"tier": "production",
"created_at": "2019-05-25T18:55:13.252Z",
"updated_at": "2019-05-27T18:55:13.252Z"
}
```
## Update 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.
```plaintext
PUT /projects/:id/environments/:environments_id
```
| Attribute | Type | Required | Description |
| --------------- | ------- | --------------------------------- | ------------------------------- |
| `id` | integer/string | yes | The ID or [URL-encoded path of the project](index.md#namespaced-path-encoding) owned by the authenticated user |
| `environment_id` | integer | yes | The ID of the environment |
| `name` | string | no | [Deprecated and will be removed in GitLab 15.0](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/338897) |
| `external_url` | string | no | The new `external_url` |
| `tier` | string | no | The tier of the new environment. Allowed values are `production`, `staging`, `testing`, `development`, and `other` |
```shell
curl --request PUT --data "name=staging&external_url=https://staging.gitlab.example.com" \
--header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/environments/1"
```
Example response:
```json
{
"id": 1,
"name": "staging",
"slug": "staging",
"external_url": "https://staging.gitlab.example.com",
"state": "available",
"tier": "staging",
"created_at": "2019-05-25T18:55:13.252Z",
"updated_at": "2019-05-27T18:55:13.252Z"
}
```
## Delete an environment
It returns `204` if the environment was successfully deleted, and `404` if the environment does not exist.
```plaintext
DELETE /projects/:id/environments/:environment_id
```
| Attribute | Type | Required | Description |
| --------- | ------- | -------- | --------------------- |
| `id` | integer/string | yes | The ID or [URL-encoded path of the project](index.md#namespaced-path-encoding) owned by the authenticated user |
| `environment_id` | integer | yes | The ID of the environment |
```shell
curl --request DELETE --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/environments/1"
```
## Delete multiple stopped review apps
> [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/296625) in GitLab 14.2.
It schedules for deletion multiple environments that have already been
[stopped](../ci/environments/index.md#stop-an-environment) and
are [in the review app folder](../ci/review_apps/index.md).
The actual deletion is performed after 1 week from the time of execution.
By default, it only deletes environments 30 days or older. You can change this default using the `before` parameter.
```plaintext
DELETE /projects/:id/environments/review_apps
```
| Attribute | Type | Required | Description |
| --------- | ------- | -------- | --------------------- |
| `id` | integer/string | yes | The ID or [URL-encoded path of the project](index.md#namespaced-path-encoding) owned by the authenticated user. |
| `before` | datetime | no | The date before which environments can be deleted. Defaults to 30 days ago. Expected in ISO 8601 format (`YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ`). |
| `limit` | integer | no | Maximum number of environments to delete. Defaults to 100. |
| `dry_run` | boolean | no | Defaults to `true` for safety reasons. It performs a dry run where no actual deletion will be performed. Set to `false` to actually delete the environment. |
```shell
curl --request DELETE --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/environments/review_apps"
```
Example response:
```json
{
"scheduled_entries": [
{
"id": 387,
"name": "review/023f1bce01229c686a73",
"slug": "review-023f1bce01-3uxznk",
"external_url": null
},
{
"id": 388,
"name": "review/85d4c26a388348d3c4c0",
"slug": "review-85d4c26a38-5giw1c",
"external_url": null
}
],
"unprocessable_entries": []
}
```
## Stop an environment
It returns `200` if the environment was successfully stopped, and `404` if the environment does not exist.
```plaintext
POST /projects/:id/environments/:environment_id/stop
```
| Attribute | Type | Required | Description |
|------------------|----------------|----------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| `id` | integer/string | yes | The ID or [URL-encoded path of the project](index.md#namespaced-path-encoding) owned by the authenticated user |
| `environment_id` | integer | yes | The ID of the environment |
| `force` | boolean | no | Force environment to stop without executing `on_stop` actions |
```shell
curl --request POST --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/environments/1/stop"
```
Example response:
```json
{
"id": 1,
"name": "deploy",
"slug": "deploy",
"external_url": "https://deploy.gitlab.example.com",
"state": "stopped",
"created_at": "2019-05-25T18:55:13.252Z",
"updated_at": "2019-05-27T18:55:13.252Z"
}
```