Cloud Native CI/CD with GitLab

Customizing DAG Pipelines with Conditional Dependencies

This section explains how rules can be combined with needs to dynamically shape the DAG, so a job can depend on different upstream jobs depending on the branch context.

Example:

You want to run a job differently based on the branch name and have it depend on different jobs accordingly:

production-build:
  stage: build
  rules:
    - if: $CI_COMMIT_BRANCH == $CI_DEFAULT_BRANCH
  script: echo "Production branch, executing full build..."

build-on-other-branches:
  stage: build
  rules:
    - if: $CI_COMMIT_BRANCH != $CI_DEFAULT_BRANCH
  script: echo "Non production branch, executing faster build..."

my-job:
  stage