Create projects from project templates with required settings

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Problem to solve

Compliance-minded organizations require the ability to define project templates with all the required project settings necessary for regulated projects. As a Compliance Manager and Systems Administrator we need to set project settings in accordance to the regulation/compliance being adhered to. Project settings such as the following need to be set and enforced (disallowing them from being changed at the project level by any user role).

• Merge Requests
• Merge Request Approvals and Settings
• Badges
• Compliance Framework
• Default description template for issues
• Default branch
• Push rules
• Protected branches
• Protected tags
• CI/CD variables
• Protected environments
• Visibility, project features, permissions settings
• Runners

Setting the project settings on a project template would allow for regulated projects to be quickly created from the template with all the required settings and enforcement needed for the regulation compliance.

Intended users

• Cameron (Compliance Manager)
• Sidney (Systems Administrator)
• Priyanka (Platform Engineer)

Metrics

User experience goal

The compliance manager should be able to set the required project settings in a compliance project template such that new projects can be created from the template with the required settings and enforcements.

Proposal

Accept the import of project templates with the required project settings and enforcements when creating new projects from the project template.

1. Create project in templates folder
2. Set required project settings and enforcements
3. Create project from template
4. New project created from template import

Further details

A similar existing issue Use custom compliance project labels to define standard project settings addresses the setting of project settings when creating the compliance project labels, perhaps this issues is better to implement the need.

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