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Porris
Porris

Reputation: 23

Gitlab CI execution timing for different stages

I bet this is just some stupid thing I am missing, but how should I create my gitlab-ci.yml file and schedules to have several stages to execute every night (nightly testing) and one stage to execute once over weekend (weekly test set)?

Currently I have the setup like: All the stages I want to have executed every night are similar, only names change ofc.

stage1:
  stage: stage1
  only:
  - schedules

  script:
  - my execute script
  
  allow_failure: true
  
  artifacts:
   when: always
   paths:
    - stuff here
   reports:
     junit: filename here

I also have a schedule for the nightly execution which triggers the execution just fine at 18:00 pm.

Then I have the stage I want to execute once per week on saturday at 10 am:

stagex:
  stage: stagex
  only:
  - schedules
    - cron 0 10 * * 6

  script:
  - my execute script
  
  allow_failure: true
  
  artifacts:
   when: always
   paths:
    - stuff here
   reports:
     junit: filename here

This did not fire last saturday. There are no separate schedule on the UI side. Should I have it there? Any pointers on how to get it work?

Also what I would like to have is to able to execute the stage x (the weekly) from a button, so schedule would be required to that. That can be left inactive ofc if gitlab starts it by other means. I tried this with setting variables to the stages and having those in the UI side but I did not get it to work this way.

There is something that I am missing for sure...

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1105

Answers (1)

amBear
amBear

Reputation: 1196

If I understood your goal, you want to

  • execute stage1 only when scheduled (daily)
  • execute stagex only when scheduled (weekly) or when manual pipeline ran.

The following should accomplish such. You will need to have the daily and weekly schedules set. For the weekly schedule you will need to define SCHEDULED_JOB as "stagex"; once the schedule is set you can press play on it so manually run the job.

variables:
  SCHEDULED_JOB: "stage1"

stage1:
  stage: stage1
  rules:
   - if: '$CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE == "schedule" && $SCHEDULED_JOB == $CI_JOB_NAME'

  script:
  - my execute script
  
  allow_failure: true
  
  artifacts:
   when: always
   paths:
    - stuff here
   reports:
     junit: filename here
     
    
stagex:
  stage: stagex
    - if: '$CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE == "schedule" && '$SCHEDULED_JOB == $CI_JOB_NAME'
  script:
  - my execute script
  
  allow_failure: true
  
  artifacts:
   when: always
   paths:
    - stuff here
   reports:
     junit: filename here

Upvotes: 1

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