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beatrice
beatrice

Reputation: 4401

Gitlab CI forces me to define stages when using multiple include

I have a base file .gitlab-ci.yml:

include:
  - project: 'my-group/my-project'
    file: 'test1.yml'

test1.yml:

stages:
 -test_stage1

test_stage1:
 stage: test_stage1
 script: //some script

it works fine, test_stage1 runs successfully.

Now if I want to include other file as well:

include:
  - project: 'my-group/my-project'
    file: 'test1.yml'
  - project: 'my-group/my-project'
    file: 'test2.yml'

test2.yml:

stages:
 -test_stage2

test_stage2:
 stage: test_stage2
 script: //some script

I get the following error:

This GitLab CI configuration is invalid: test_stage job: stage parameter should be test_stage2

So I have to add explicitly the stages:

    include:
      - project: 'my-group/my-project'
        file: 'test1.yml'
      - project: 'my-group/my-project'
        file: 'test2.yml'
   stages:
      -test_stage1
      -test_stage2

And it works.
Why is that?
Am I able to somehow just include multiple files and go through all of their stages without declaring them?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 5197

Answers (1)

Aleksey Tsalolikhin
Aleksey Tsalolikhin

Reputation: 1668

You need to define your stages so that GitLab CI knows the sequence of stages.

See the documentation.

Am I able to somehow just include multiple files and go through all of their stages without declaring them?

Not if you want to have multiple stages. You need to tell GitLab CI which stage comes first, second etc., so that all the jobs for each stage can be run before going on to the next stage. That gives us a pipeline.

The default stage is test, by the way. If you don't provide the stage attribute for a job, it'll be assigned to the test stage.

Upvotes: 7

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