Cloud Native CI/CD with GitLab

Controlling Based on Job Status

Here, the goal is to show how a job's execution can be gated not just on conditions, but also on the status of earlier jobs and the context of the pipeline, using when in combination with rules.

Example:

You want to run a job only when the target branch of the merge request is protected and no previous jobs have failed:

build_job:
  stage: build
  script:
    - echo "running build_job"
  rules:
    - if: '$CI_MERGE_REQUEST_TARGET_BRANCH_PROTECTED == "true"'
      when: on_success

However, for this special case, since the default when is always on_success, you can omit it and we'll have the same behavior:

build_job:
  stage: build
  script:
    - echo "running build_job"
  rules:
    - if: '$CI_MERGE_REQUEST_TARGET_BRANCH_PROTECTED == "true"'

Example:

You want to run a job only when the user who triggered the pipeline has an email that ends with @company.local and at least one of the previous jobs has failed:

build_job:
  stage: build
  script:
    -