Stages and needs¶

The stages permit to group gitlab CI/CD jobs

Defining the stages¶

The default stages are

They can be redefined in the .gitlab-ci.yml file

stages:
  - mystage1
  - mystage2
  - mystage3

If a stage is defined but no jobs use it, the stage is not visible in the pipeline

We define inside a job the stage belongs to.

myjob:
  stage: mystage1

If no stage is defined, the job uses the test stage by default

If a pipeline contains only jobs in the .pre or .post stages, it does not run. There must be at least one other job in a different stage.
All the jobs in the same stage runs in parallel
When all jobs in an stage succeed, the next stage jobs start.
When all stages succeed, the pipeline is marked as passed
If any job fails, the pipeline is marked as failed and jobs in later stages do not start. Jobs in the current stage are not stopped and continue to run.

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