Run rclone in gitlab pipeline

[Daan_Seegers]

Hi Everyone,

I have been running rclone on a digital ocean instance for a very long time to transfer files from one webdav server to another. Now I do more and more in gitlab runners (including syncing mails).

Now I was wondering if it's easy to put a rclone config file in a gitlab repository and actually use the respository runner to pump data back and forth :).

I started with this, but I don't know how to best configure the configuration

image: rclone/rclone

stages:
  - bestanden-over

# ... "compile" and "test" jobs are skipped here for the sake of compactness

dseegers:
  stage: bestanden-over
  script:
  - lsf ":ftp: --ftp-host=speedtest.tele2.net --ftp-user=anonymous --ftp-pass=`rclone obscure dummy`"

[ncw (Nick Craig-Wood)]

I do a similar thing in GitHub actions. What I do is use rclone config encryption but put the rclone config secret into the secret environment as RCLONE_CONFIG_PASS. The config file can then be checked in as it is encrypted.

See: config encryption docs for more info

[Daan_Seegers]

Hi Found out.

I just exported my config into gitlab and it works!
Just wondering, with what kind of algorithm are the passwords encrypted (if I may ask) .

When I know, I can just edit the config really easy

[ncw (Nick Craig-Wood)]

The docs are here

https://rclone.org/docs/#configuration-encryption

But to quote from them

rclone uses nacl secretbox which in turn uses XSalsa20 and Poly1305 to encrypt and authenticate your configuration with secret-key cryptography. The password is SHA-256 hashed, which produces the key for secretbox. The hashed password is not stored.