Gitlab CI: Env variable in multiple oder jobs along the pipeline

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Problem to solve

I have three jobs in the same project job_one job_two and job_three

job_three needs job_two and job_two needs job_one. In job_one I’m creating a dotenv variable with multiple env variables inside. My goal is to access these variables in both job_two and job_three.

job_one:
  stage: .pre
  script:
    - echo GIT_USER_NAME=${GIT_USER_NAME:-devops-bot_$GROUP} >> build.env
    - echo DESTINATION=${DESTINATION:-$REGISTRY_URL/$CI_PROJECT_PATH} >> build.env
  artifacts:
    reports:
      dotenv: build.env

job_two:
  stage: push
  script:
    - echo $GIT_USER_NAME
  needs:
  - job: job_one
    artifacts: true

This works as expected. Now I tried to implement job_three in different ways, none of them worked

First Try

job_three:
  stage: deploy
  script:
    - echo $GIT_USER_NAME
  needs:
  - job: job_two
    artifacts: true

Second Try

job_three:
  stage: deploy
  script:
    - echo $GIT_USER_NAME
  needs:
  - job: job_one
    artifacts: true
  - job: job_two

In job_three the output is always an empty string ‘’. Is there a possibility to achieve my goal? I would also not matter if I could do it in another way than artifacts as long as A) the variables can be “generated” through bash and B) the variables can be loaded for every job in the pipeline.

Thank you very much for your help :smiley: