.gibil.yml Reference

Full example

name: my-app
image: node:20
server_type: cpx21
location: ash

services:
  - name: db
    image: postgres:16
    port: 5432
    env:
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: devpass
      POSTGRES_DB: myapp
  - name: cache
    image: redis:7
    port: 6379

tasks:
  - name: install
    command: pnpm install --frozen-lockfile
  - name: check
    command: pnpm check
  - name: build
    command: pnpm build
  - name: test
    command: pnpm test

env:
  DATABASE_URL: postgres://postgres:devpass@localhost:5432/myapp
  REDIS_URL: redis://localhost:6379
  NODE_ENV: development

Fields

`name`

Project name. Optional, used for labeling.

`image`

Runtime to install on the VM. Gibil installs the specified runtime and its package manager.

Value	Installs
`node:20`	Node.js 20 + pnpm
`node:22`	Node.js 22 + pnpm
`python:3.12`	Python 3.12 + pip
`go:1.22`	Go 1.22

`server_type`

Hetzner VM size. Default: cpx11.

Type	vCPU	RAM	Cost/hr
`cpx11`	2	4 GB	~€0.011
`cpx21`	4	8 GB	~€0.019
`cpx31`	4	16 GB	~€0.036

`location`

Hetzner datacenter. Default: fsn1.

Code	City
`fsn1`	Falkenstein, Germany
`nbg1`	Nuremberg, Germany
`hel1`	Helsinki, Finland
`ash`	Ashburn, Virginia

`services`

Docker containers to start before tasks. Docker is automatically installed when services are defined.

services:
  - name: db
    image: postgres:16
    port: 5432
    env:
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: devpass

Each service has:

name — identifier for the service
image — Docker image to run
port — port to expose
env — environment variables passed to the container

`tasks`

Commands to run in order after the repo is cloned. If one fails, the rest still run.

tasks:
  - name: install
    command: pnpm install
  - name: test
    command: pnpm test

`env`

Environment variables set on the VM (persisted in /root/.bashrc).

env:
  DATABASE_URL: postgres://localhost/myapp
  NODE_ENV: development

Discovery order

Gibil looks for the config file in this order:

--config ./path/to/config.yml — explicit CLI flag
--repo URL — fetched from the repo's GitHub raw URL
Current working directory — .gibil.yml in $PWD

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