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Aditya
Aditya

Reputation: 1261

Running GitLab pipeline from a branch other than main

I've been stuck on trying to run a GitLab pipeline from a branch in my repo and its driving me crazy. I have a sample branch called test-branch, but every time I try to run the pipeline manually GitLab shows an error message saying

Pipeline cannot be run
Failed to build pipeline!

I am the owner of the group hence by inherited permissions, I should be able to run a pipeline on any branch by default. I am able to manually run this same pipeline from the main branch, but for any other branch, it simply won't budge. Here is the .gitlab-ci.yaml file I am using

stages:
 - build_artifacts
workflow:
  rules:
    - if: $CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE == "push"
      when: never
    - if: $CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE == "web"
Run-Pipeline:
  stage: build_artifacts
  script:
 - |
    echo "Somevalue" > file.json # Just an example script
  artifacts:
    paths:
      - file.json

Here are some steps I have takes to try and resolve this

This has to be the worst error message GitLab shows, there is no way for me to debug what is going wrong. What am I missing here?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2624

Answers (2)

Aditya
Aditya

Reputation: 1261

I figured out the problem. Apparently, GitLab has a certain naming convention for the variables. I added a user defined variable in the gitlab-ci config called SAMPLE-VARIABLE. Turns out you cannot use - in the name of the variable. Renaming it to SAMPLE_VARIABLE did the trick.
However, it would be good for GitLab to give clear error messages rather than throwing such a generic message at the end user and expecting them to figure it out. I spent almost a whole entire day trying out different things to figure out what was exactly going wrong here

Upvotes: 1

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1323263

Check first the pipeline through the Lint CI configuration

That will test the validity of your GitLab CI/CD configuration before committing the changes.
An incorrect syntax could explain the runtime error message.

Upvotes: 0

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