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Resource group API (FREE)

You can read more about controlling the job concurrency with resource groups.

Get all resource groups for a project

GET /projects/:id/resource_groups
Attribute Type Required Description
id integer/string yes The ID or URL-encoded path of the project owned by the authenticated user 
curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/resource_groups"

Example of response

[
  {
    "id": 3,
    "key": "production",
    "process_mode": "unordered",
    "created_at": "2021-09-01T08:04:59.650Z",
    "updated_at": "2021-09-01T08:04:59.650Z"
  }
]

Get a specific resource group

GET /projects/:id/resource_groups/:key
Attribute Type Required Description
id integer/string yes The ID or URL-encoded path of the project owned by the authenticated user
key string yes The key of the resource group 
curl --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/resource_groups/production"

Example of response

{
  "id": 3,
  "key": "production",
  "process_mode": "unordered",
  "created_at": "2021-09-01T08:04:59.650Z",
  "updated_at": "2021-09-01T08:04:59.650Z"
}

Edit an existing resource group

Updates an existing resource group's properties.

It returns 200 if the resource group was successfully updated. In case of an error, a status code 400 is returned.

PUT /projects/:id/resource_groups/:key
Attribute Type Required Description
id integer/string yes The ID or URL-encoded path of the project owned by the authenticated user
key string yes The key of the resource group
process_mode string no The process mode of the resource group. One of unordered, oldest_first or newest_first. Read process modes for more information. 
curl --request PUT --data "process_mode=oldest_first" \
     --header "PRIVATE-TOKEN: <your_access_token>" "https://gitlab.example.com/api/v4/projects/1/resource_groups/production"

Example response:

{
  "id": 3,
  "key": "production",
  "process_mode": "oldest_first",
  "created_at": "2021-09-01T08:04:59.650Z",
  "updated_at": "2021-09-01T08:13:38.679Z"
}