Multiple Url support for Review Apps

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Release notes

Allow the support of multiple urls in a Review App environment.

Problem to solve

Sometimes we have multiple apps in 1 repository, e.g. a front and backend application, which have different urls. Currently you can only set 1 url per environment and generally these urls are dynamically generated on the hosting platform after a deployment. So currently there is only 1 button displayed in the Merge Request UI which opens the environment url.

Proposal

Allow the environment url property to be either a string or an array of strings like the example below:

deploy_review:
  stage: deploy
  script:
    - sh deploy.sh
    - DYNAMIC_URL_FRONTEND=$(get_url.sh --app=frontend)
    - DYNAMIC_URL_BACKEND=$(get_url.sh --app=backend)
    - echo "DYNAMIC_URL_FRONTEND=$DYNAMIC_URL_FRONTEND" >> deploy.env
    - echo "DYNAMIC_URL_BACKEND=$DYNAMIC_URL_BACKEND" >> deploy.env
  artifacts:
    reports:
      dotenv: deploy.env
  environment:
    name: $CI_COMMIT_BRANCH
    url: 
      - $DYNAMIC_URL_FRONTEND
      - $DYNAMIC_URL_BACKEND
    on_stop: stop_review

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Intended users

• Developers
• DevOps Engineer
• QA Engineer