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How to disable jobs in GitLab CI after they are successfully executed

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I'm working with GitLab CI. The pipelines I'm designing contain several jobs that, once executed successfully, there shouldn't be any reason to retry/rerun them. This is an example:

default:
  # Cache set up
  image: docker.io/library/eclipse-temurin:21-jdk-alpine

stages:
  - verification
  - testing
  - assembly
  - deployment

# Global environment variables

assess-code-quality:
  ...
  stage: verification

build-release:
  ...
  stage: assembly

deploy-dev:
  ... # manual job
  stage: deployment

deploy-test:
  needs: deploy-dev
  ... # manual job
  stage: deployment

deploy-prod:
  needs: deploy-test
  ... # manual job
  stage: deployment

test-release:
  ...
  stage: testing

verify-source-code-formatting:
  ...
  stage: verification

I've been searching through the CI/CD YAML syntax reference, but I haven't found anything to accomplish this across the board.

To clarify, I want to make sure that jobs like assess-code-quality, build-release, and others do not allow for reruns if they complete successfully within a given pipeline, not across the pipelines.

Any help or examples would be greatly appreciated!

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Retry/rerun when? (4 comments)

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I don't think there exists a straightforward solution.

Likely you can achieve this with rules but you'll have to define and finetune them on each of the jobs. (template jobs may help a bit here.) I.e. configure some jobs to only run on merges and others only on commits etc.

The last resort would be to query the gitlab API in the job's before_script and just exit if the response indicates that the job has already run. In this case the job does run though, it would just do almost nothing.

There is an issue tracking a potential solution for branch merge duplicate pipelines: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/300146

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