Gitlab To S3 Backup

Sun, 01 Mar 2026 17:46:52 +0000

So I have a need to nightly backup a few things. I thought I would share how I do this using the following:

Digital Ocean Object Storage
Gitlab
Mongo
Python ( For simplicity )

To start, I have a template for connecting up to digital ocean that I use in multiple spots. We’ll call this docker_util.yaml

docker_util.yaml

image: docker:24.0.5
services:
 - docker:24.0.5-dind
before_script:
 - wget https://github.com/digitalocean/doctl/releases/download/v1.105.0/doctl-1.105.0-linux-amd64.tar.gz
 - tar xf doctl-1.105.0-linux-amd64.tar.gz
 - mv doctl /bin
 - doctl auth init -t ${DO_API_TOKEN}
 - doctl registry login

Notice the ${DO_API_TOKEN}, you will need to create a secret for this. Also pending on when you are reading this, you may need to update the doctl version.

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Gitlab To S3 Backup