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atmos git

Publish generated configuration and other artifacts to Git as part of your infrastructure workflows. Atmos manages repository operations with shared authentication, signing settings, and safeguards that you can reuse locally and in CI.

Experimental
Configure Git Repositories

Define managed repositories, authentication, commit signing, and local Git hooks under the top-level git section of atmos.yaml.

atmos git --help
 

Managed Repositories​

Publish generated files from the CLI, from kind: git lifecycle hooks such as after.terraform.apply, or from native CI workflows. Managed repositories support initialization, cloning, pulling, inspection, diffs, commits, pushing, and cleanup by logical name.

Define repositories once under git.repositories in atmos.yaml, then refer to them everywhere by logical name:

git:
repositories:
flux-deploy:
uri: https://github.com/acme/flux-deploy.git
auth:
identity: platform-admin

generated-terraform:
uri: https://github.com/acme/generated-terraform.git
atmos git clone flux-deploy
atmos git status flux-deploy
atmos git commit flux-deploy --message="Update manifests" --path=clusters/prod
atmos git push flux-deploy
atmos git clean flux-deploy --dry-run

Repository names (flux-deploy, generated-terraform) are arbitrary, user-defined logical keys — not reserved values. Repository configuration follows standard Atmos deep-merge, so repositories can be defined in imported configuration and overridden per environment.

How It Differs from Plain Git​

Every atmos git command goes through the shared Atmos Git service, which adds:

  • Authentication via Atmos Auth — repository auth.identity brings linked integrations (such as github/sts) along automatically; the ambient credential broker covers the zero-config CI case; your own credential helpers and SSH agent always continue to work.
  • Safety rules — pulls are always fast-forward-only, force push is never performed, rejected pushes retry with a bounded pull --rebase + re-push loop, and path-scoped commits refuse to commit when unrelated dirty files are present.
  • Reconcile semantics — atmos git clone is idempotent: it clones when the workdir is absent and fetches/fast-forwards when it already exists, which makes restored CI caches safe.
  • Automatic workdirs — managed repositories clone into a deterministic location under the Atmos XDG cache root, so the native CI cache captures them across runs for free.
  • Native escape hatch — init, clone, pull, and push pass arguments after -- verbatim to the underlying git invocation (e.g., atmos git clone flux-deploy -- --no-tags), so Atmos safety rules and uncommon git flags compose.

Subcommands​