How to set release ID for SDK when deployments are done via CI

[grug]

Hi there,

I'd like to set up release health with the Sentry SDK (React, not using create-react-app). As part of that, we need to set release when we init the SDK in our application.

However, we set the release using the Sentry CLI tool in our CI pipelines, i.e.

curl -sL https://sentry.io/get-cli/ | bash
            export SENTRY_RELEASE=$(sentry-cli releases propose-version)
            sentry-cli releases new -p $SENTRY_PROJECT $SENTRY_RELEASE
            sentry-cli releases set-commits $SENTRY_RELEASE --auto
            sentry-cli releases files $SENTRY_RELEASE 
            sentry-cli releases finalize $SENTRY_RELEASE
            sentry-cli releases deploys $SENTRY_RELEASE new -e production

Since we're setting the release in our CI pipelines, there's no way to feed the version back into the project.

Is there a recommended pattern for achieving this?

[AbhiPrasad]

We recommend injecting the variable using your bundler. For example, see how it's done with webpack: https://webpack.js.org/guides/environment-variables/

[grug]

This makes sense. I didn't realise that sentry-cli releases propose-version was deterministic as it uses the most recent commit.