Array variable in gitlab CI/CD yml - gitlab

Question

I am writing a CI/CD pipeline for terraform to deploy GCP resources.
In terraform code, I got many functionality and Network is one of them. The folder structure of the Network is
Network
VPC
LoadBalancer
DNS
VPN
So, I want to loop terraform init, plan and apply commands for all the sub-folder of Network folder. The yml file looks like
image:
name: registry.gitlab.com/gitlab-org/terraform-images/stable:latest
variables:
TF_ROOT: ${CI_PROJECT_DIR}
env: 'prod'
network_services: ""
stages:
- init
init:
stage: init
script:
- |
network_services = ['vpc' 'vpn']
for service in $network_services[#]
do
echo The path is var/$env/terraform.tfvars
done
The above gives me the error:
$ network_services = ['vpc' 'vpn'] # collapsed multi-line command
/bin/sh: eval: line 103: network_services: not found
Please suggest a way to declare array variable in gitlab CI/CD yml.

Answer 1

Try changing your job to something like this:
init:
stage: init
script:
- network_services = ('vpc' 'vpn')
- for service in $network_services[#]
do
echo "The path is var/$env/terraform.tfvars
done
I don't believe you can do multi-line commands like that due to the way the the gitlab-runner eval's the entries in the script array, though combining them with ; has worked for me if I want them on one line.