My question in short:
Is there a way to remove needs when overriding an included job?
Explanation
The needs: ["dep-a", "dep-b"] job property is inherited when using the include directive.
When overriding this job, setting the needs to an empty array causes the runner to think this job has no dependencies and can be run immediately. This also causes artifacts to be missing from earlier jobs (since they potentially haven’t been executed yet)
Setting the needs to null will cause the gitlab-ci.yml schema validation to fail. (But it does solve the problem)
An example
The parent pipeline:
stages:
- build
- verify
some-needed-stage:
stage: build
script:
- do_something
sonar:
stage: verify
needs: ["some-needed-stage"]
script:
- mvn sonar:sonar
The pipeline (which includes above file):
stages:
- build
- verify
include:
- project: org/shared-cicid-pipeline
file: above-pipeline.yml
sonar: # note that this has the same job name as in the parent
stage: verify
needs: [] # <-- this is the point, how to get rid of inherited needs?
script:
- run project specific analysis