Project access tokens (https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/settings/project_access_tokens.html https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/settings/project_acc.

Project access tokens (https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/settings/project_access_tokens.html https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/settings/project_acc...) is what you need and they have been around for 2+ years