Set a postman variable value from the Gitlab CI

Question

There are two variables defined for my test. I want to set these values through the CI.

Below is the code from gitlab-ci.yml
smoketest-test:
  stage: smoketests-test
  dependencies:
  - deploy-test
  image: 
    name: postman/newman:alpine
    # entrypoint: [""]
  script:
    - newman --version.sh
    - npm install -g newman-reporter-html
    - newman runs tests/postmanui-tests.json -e tests/${ENV_VAR}_environment.json "uname" = "abc"
  artifacts:
     when: always
     paths:
      - report.html
  only:
    - master
  except:
    - schedules
  tags:
    - environment_test

How can I pass the variable "uname" value from the CI? Currently it is not being passed through.

Answer 1

Individual variables can be overridden with the --env-var flag.

To hardcode the values:

    - newman run tests/postmanui-tests.json -e tests/${ENV_VAR}_environment.json --env-var uname="abc"

To use Gitlab CI variables:

variables:
  uname: default-value
  abc: default-value

...

    - newman run tests/postmanui-tests.json -e tests/${ENV_VAR}_environment.json --env-var ${uname}=${abc}