Hi Team,

I’m facing a issue with using trigger key word for parent child pipelines. I’m using gitlab free EE is that the reason to fail the pipeline with bellow error?

error:

jobs stage config should implement a script: or a trigger: keyword*

code:

trigger_terraform_plan:
stage: trigger_plan
rules:
- if: ( $aws_account != null )
trigger:
include: child_jobs/ymls/terraform_plan_template.yml*

could you please help me to fix it?

Hi @uyanushka

It’s hard to tell what’s happening here, but it would help if you could format your YAML snippet as a code block (use the </> button in the text editor).

I think you want something like this, but you will probably need to play around with this a little further:

trigger_terraform_plan:
    stage: trigger_plan
    rules:
        - if: ${aws_account}
          when: always
        - when: never
    trigger:
        include: child_jobs/ymls/terraform_plan_template.yml

This is based on the child pipeline docs and the rules docs.

Hi @snim2

sorry forgot to format the code before, this is the formatted code. I’m getting error jobs stage config should implement a script: or a trigger: keyword * but in that stage we have trigger key word.

trigger_terraform_plan:
  stage: trigger_plan
  rules:
    - if: ( $aws_account != null )
  trigger:
   include: child_jobs/ymls/terraform_plan_template.yml*

OK, have you tried my version above? or something like it?

yes. I have tested with by removing if condition also, but same error occurred.

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Is that due to free version when I was checking pricing I have noticed that advance pipeline are available on paid version.

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The child pipeline docs say that parent-child pipelines are available in all tiers, so I don’t think the issue is that you are using the free plan. Also, that snippet passes the lint for me.

Is it possible to post your full .gitlab-ci.yml file?

difficult to provide entire code here since this is big project. give me some time I’ll try to regenerate it with some simple pipeline.

Hi @snim2

apologize on delay reply, could be able to regenerate the issue with 2 simple files.

.gitlab-ci.yml

stages:
  - stage1
  - trigger

.base:
  image:
    name: ${BASE_CICD_IMAGE}
    entrypoint: [""]
  tags:     
    - "docker-in-docker"

stage_1:
  stage: stage1
  extends: .base
  script:
    - echo stage1

trigger:
  stage: trigger
  trigger:
    include:  child_jobs/ymls/terraform_plan_template.yml

child_jobs/ymls/terraform_plan_template.yml

stage:
  - plan

.base:
  image:
    name: ${BASE_CICD_IMAGE}
    entrypoint: [""]
  tags:     
    - "docker-in-docker"

terraform_plan:
  stage: plan
  extends: .base
  script: 
    - echo test

Hi @uyanushka

I’ve been facing a similar issue having this message:

* jobs artifacts config should implement a script: or a trigger: keyword

From that, I’ve realized a bad indentation for the “artifacts” item in a job - very complicated to find this kind of errors, I think Gitlab message should explicit the line number - then it would be easier to find it.

So, in your case,

** jobs stage config should implement a script: or a trigger: keyword

means that your job called “stage” is wrong. In your terraform_plan_template.yml, you’ve mistyped “stages” by writing “stage” - Gitlab thinks it is a job, and that’s why you are having the issue.

Again, I still think the error message is very misleading, it should either print the line number OR at least put the ‘stage’ word inside quotes.

Hope that helps.

BR,
Lucas

thanks, It solved my issue.

In my case i have missed a script section after before_script: then added it’s resolved my issue.

Thanks
Viswanath

full solution about it ?

how-to share yml with a component gitlab-ci-release.yml ?

• component: $CI_SERVER_FQDN/$CI_PROJECT_PATH/gitlab-ci-release@$CI_COMMIT_SHA
  inputs:
  stage: release