gitlab-ci includes a file from another project that executes a script file

Question

I have two different projects. project1 and project2. Inside project1, I have file_project1 file:

apply:
  stage: apply
  script:
    - bash folder/scripts/automation.sh
  rules:
    - if: $CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE == "push"
      when: always

In project2, I have created the .gitlab-ci.yml and I have included the project1 and the file_project1:

include:
  - project: 'namespace/project1'
    ref: main
    file: 'file_project1'

During the execution, project2 does not recognize the folder/scripts/automation.sh. I got the following error:

bash: folder/scripts/automation.sh: No such file or directory

Please, how can the pipeline inside project2 executes correctly the bash instruction defined in project1 ?

Answer 1

I would clone project1 from the project2 job, then the script would be in project1/folder/scripts/automation.sh. See, GitLab CI/CD job token.

my-job:
  script:
    - git clone https://gitlab-ci-token:${CI_JOB_TOKEN}@gitlab.example.com/<namespace>/<project>

The include keyword is used for importing .yml files into .gitlab-ci.yml. So, it may not be useful, here.