Start Jobs / Pipline After MR has been Merged

GitLab CI/CD
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Hi all,

For a project me & my team are working on we need to implement the following with Gitlab CI:

After a MR has been merged on a release branch a pipeline should trigger a build job and automatically start deploy job that deploys to our dev environment. A manual action is available for deploying to staging.

For production this would be the same case as with the release but then for master.

Currently I have not found a way to start certain jobs or a pipeline directly after a MR has been merged.

Current setup:

build:
  stage: build
  image: docker:stable
  services:
    - docker:dind
  rules:
    - if: '$CI_MERGE_REQUEST_TARGET_BRANCH_NAME == "master" || $CI_MERGE_REQUEST_TARGET_BRANCH_NAME == /^release\/.*$/'
      when: on_success
  <<: [*build_before, *build_script, *build_after]

However this part runs when the MR is created I need this to be created after the MR has been merged.

Anyone idea’s or tips to be able to achieve this would be very helpfull!

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Hi there,

The most simplest way is to use the only keyword and specify the branches as per your requirement

Sample: If you would like to run specific job only on the MR’s then you can specify only: merge_requests
Once the MR is merged - eventually the master or the branch where the merge occurred will be updated - as a result the pipeline will be triggered, you can specify the custom jobs to run post merge using the only: master


build:
  stage: build
  script: ./build
  only:
  - master

test:
  stage: test
  script: ./test
  only:
  - merge_requests

deploy:
  stage: deploy
  script: ./deploy
  only:
  - master

Kindly have a look at the documentation for more information and features here

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Thanks for your feedback! I have finally found a way to accomplish this together with your feedback.