Programmatically create a version/release on JIRA upon creation of a SemVer tag on git

.gitlab-ci.yml

image: node:12

create_jira_version:
  stage: post-deploy
  only: 
    - tags
    - /^(\d+\.)?(\d+\.)?(\*|\d+)$/
  variables:
    VERSION: $CI_BUILD_TAG
    USER: $JIRA_USER:$JIRA_TOKEN
  script: >-
    curl --request POST 
    --url 'https://<yourdomain>.atlassian.net/rest/api/3/version' 
    --user $USER 
    --header 'Accept: application/json' 
    --header 'Content-Type: application/json' 
    --data '{"name": "'"$VERSION"'", "projectId": <your project id>}'