Cloud Native CI/CD with GitLab

Key Takeaways

Conditional execution is the foundation of flexible pipelines. Jobs no longer have to run unconditionally or be duplicated across branches. Here are the key concepts to highlight:

• rules: if expresses when a job should exist in a pipeline. Multiple rules act as logical OR, while complex logic can be expressed inside a single condition.

• Predefined variables like CI_COMMIT_BRANCH, CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE, and CI_COMMIT_MESSAGE give you precise control over pipeline intent and context.

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