kosli report approval

Report an approval of deploying an artifact to an environment to Kosli.

This command is deprecated. Deprecated commands will be removed in a future release.

Synopsis

kosli report approval [IMAGE-NAME | FILE-PATH | DIR-PATH] [flags]

Report an approval of deploying an artifact to an environment to Kosli.

The artifact fingerprint can be provided directly with the --fingerprint flag, or calculated based on --artifact-type flag.

Artifact type can be one of: “file” for files, “dir” for directories, “oci” for container images in registries or “docker” for local docker images.

Note: --artifact-type=docker reads the image’s repo digest via the local Docker daemon. The image must have been pushed to or pulled from a registry for a repo digest to exist; a freshly built image (just docker build) will not have one. If the image is already in a registry, prefer --artifact-type=oci, which fetches the digest directly from the registry without needing a local Docker daemon.

For --artifact-type=oci (and for --artifact-type=docker when --registry-username is set), registry credentials are resolved as follows:

1. If --registry-username (and optionally --registry-password) is set, it is used directly.
2. Otherwise, credentials are discovered automatically from:
   • the Docker config file (~/.docker/config.json, populated by docker login)
   • the Podman/containers auth file (~/.config/containers/auth.json, or $REGISTRY_AUTH_FILE)
   • any Docker credential helper configured in that config (e.g. docker-credential-ecr-login for AWS ECR, docker-credential-gcloud for GCR/Artifact Registry, an ACR helper for Azure, or a local keychain helper), invoked as an external binary on $PATH
   • if none of the above yield credentials, the registry is accessed anonymously, which works for public images --registry-provider is deprecated and no longer used.

Flags

Flag	Description
--approver string	[optional] The user approving an approval.
-t, --artifact-type string	The type of the artifact to calculate its SHA256 fingerprint. One of: [oci, docker, file, dir]. Only required if you want Kosli to calculate the fingerprint for you (i.e. when you don’t specify ‘--fingerprint’ on commands that allow it).
-d, --description string	[optional] The approval description.
-D, --dry-run	[optional] Run in dry-run mode. When enabled, no data is sent to Kosli and the CLI exits with 0 exit code regardless of any errors.
-e, --environment string	[defaulted] The environment the artifact is approved for. (defaults to all environments)
-x, --exclude strings	[optional] The comma separated list of directories and files to exclude from fingerprinting. Can take glob patterns. Only applicable for --artifact-type dir.
-F, --fingerprint string	[conditional] The SHA256 fingerprint of the artifact. Only required if you don’t specify ‘--artifact-type’.
-f, --flow string	The Kosli flow name.
-h, --help	help for approval
--newest-commit string	[defaulted] The source commit sha for the newest change in the deployment. Can be any commit-ish. (default “HEAD”)
--oldest-commit string	[conditional] The source commit sha for the oldest change in the deployment. Can be any commit-ish. Only required if you don’t specify ‘--environment’.
--registry-password string	[conditional] The container registry password or access token. Only required if you want to read container image SHA256 digest from a remote container registry and it is not already accessible via Docker/Podman auth files or a credential helper.
--registry-username string	[conditional] The container registry username. Only required if you want to read container image SHA256 digest from a remote container registry and it is not already accessible via Docker/Podman auth files or a credential helper.
--repo-root string	[defaulted] The directory where the source git repository is available. (default ”.”)
-u, --user-data string	[optional] The path to a JSON file containing additional data you would like to attach to the approval.

Flags inherited from parent commands

Flag	Description
-a, --api-token string	The Kosli API token.
-c, --config-file string	[optional] The Kosli config file path. (default “kosli”)
--debug	[optional] Print debug logs to stdout.
-H, --host string	[defaulted] The Kosli endpoint. (default “https://app.kosli.com”)
--http-proxy string	[optional] The HTTP proxy URL including protocol and port number. e.g. http://proxy-server-ip:proxy-port
-r, --max-api-retries int	[defaulted] How many times should API calls be retried when the API host is not reachable. (default 3)
--org string	The Kosli organization.
-q, --quiet	[optional] Suppress non-critical warning messages. Errors and normal output are not affected. If both --quiet and --debug are set, --debug wins.

Live Examples in different CI systems

GitHub

View an example of the kosli report approval command in GitHub.

In this YAML file

GitLab

View an example of the kosli report approval command in GitLab.

In this YAML file

Examples Use Cases

These examples all assume that the flags --api-token, --org, --host, (and --flow, --trail when required), are set/provided.

# Report that an artifact with a provided fingerprint (sha256) has been approved for 
# deployment to environment <yourEnvironmentName>.
# The approval is for all git commits since the last approval to this environment.
kosli report approval \
	--api-token yourAPIToken \
	--description "An optional description for the approval" \
	--environment yourEnvironmentName \
	--approver username \
	--org yourOrgName \
	--flow yourFlowName \
	--fingerprint yourArtifactFingerprint

# Report that a file type artifact has been approved for deployment to environment <yourEnvironmentName>.
# The approval is for all git commits since the last approval to this environment.
kosli report approval FILE.tgz \
	--api-token yourAPIToken \
	--artifact-type file \
	--description "An optional description for the approval" \
	--environment yourEnvironmentName \
	--newest-commit HEAD \
	--approver username \
	--org yourOrgName \
	--flow yourFlowName 

# Report that an artifact with a provided fingerprint (sha256) has been approved for deployment.
# The approval is for all environments.
# The approval is for all commits since the git commit of origin/production branch.
kosli report approval \
	--api-token yourAPIToken \
	--description "An optional description for the approval" \
	--newest-commit HEAD \
	--oldest-commit origin/production \
	--approver username \
	--org yourOrgName \
	--flow yourFlowName \
	--fingerprint yourArtifactFingerprint