gitlab_pipeline_examples

trigger downstream project builds

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/#trigger

Job1

variables:
  DOCKER_TAG: 1.0.1-release

stages:
  - test
  - deploy

test:
  stage: test
  script:
    - |
      echo $DOCKER_TAG

deploy:
  stage: deploy
  trigger: awiechert/job2

Job 2

deploy:
  stage: deploy
  script:
    - echo $DOCKER_TAG

Result

trigger with manual click

Job1

variables:
  DOCKER_TAG: 1.0.1-release

stages:
  - test
  - deploy

test:
  stage: test
  script:
    - |
      echo $DOCKER_TAG

deploy:
  stage: deploy
  trigger: awiechert/job2
  when: manual

prefilled variables

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/30101

Job1

variables:
 K8S_CLUSTER_NAME:
   description: "Deploy to which kubernetes cluster? Valid values are -> dev-level-1 dev-level-2 prod01" 
   value: "dev-level-1" 
 DOCKER_TAG: 1.0.1-release

stages:
  - test
  - deploy

test:
  stage: test
  script:
    - |
      echo $DOCKER_TAG
      echo $K8S_CLUSTER_NAME

deploy:
  stage: deploy
  trigger: a1ae440/job2
  when: manual

Job2

deploy:
  stage: deploy
  script:
    - | 
      echo $DOCKER_TAG
      echo $K8S_CLUSTER_NAME

use Tag from gitlab as docker iamge tag

Job1

variables:
 K8S_CLUSTER_NAME:
   description: "Deploy to which kubernetes cluster? Valid values are -> dev-level-1 dev-level-2 prod01" 
   value: "dev-level-1" 
 DOCKER_TAG: $CI_COMMIT_TAG

stages:
  - test
  - deploy

test:
  stage: test
  script:
    - |
      echo $DOCKER_TAG
      echo $K8S_CLUSTER_NAME

deploy:
  stage: deploy
  trigger: a1ae440/job2
  when: manual