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Setting Job Types Based on Conditions

This section focuses on changing how a job is triggered, not just whether it runs, by selecting different job types such as manual or delayed based on pipeline conditions.

Example:

You want to run a job only when the target branch of the merge request is protected. If it's the case, you want to set the job to be triggered manually:

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

When a job is set to manual, it will not run automatically. The pipeline will stop at this job and wait for a user action. To allow the pipeline to continue, we can use the allow_failure: true clause:

build_job:
  stage: build
  script:
    - echo "running build_job"
  rules:
    - if: