The use of && in RULES

GitLab CI/CD
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Using && in rules.

Hello everyone,

I am having issues setting up a very simple pipeline with only 2 jobs:

  • Build Production
  • Deploy Production

In my gitlab-ci I have the following in the rules:

build-image-prod:
  stage: build-prod
  image: docker
  services:
    - docker:dind
  script:
    - echo 'Hello Gitlab'
  rules:
    - if: $CI_COMMIT_BRANCH == "main"
    - if: $CI_COMMIT_TAG

deploy-job-prod:      
  stage: deploy-prod  
  image:
    name: bitnami/kubectl:latest
    entrypoint: ['']
  script:
    - echo 'Hello Gitlab'
  rules:
    - if: $CI_COMMIT_BRANCH == "main" 
    - if: $CI_COMMIT_TAG

I was trying to setup that every time that a TAG is created from main branch will be executed. So I have decided to use with the next code but based on documentation I cannot use only and rules at the same time.

only:
    - main

I though, good, let’s try the following rule:

  rules:
    - if: $CI_COMMIT_BRANCH == "main" 
    - if: $CI_COMMIT_TAG

But it triggers every time there is a merge request or a tag from main branch and the next code triggers nothing

  rules:
    - if: $CI_COMMIT_BRANCH == "main" && $CI_COMMIT_TAG

Is there another way to setup the pipeline that will run only when there is a tag from main?

Thanks a lot! :blush:

2

Per Join variable expressions together with && or ||, any chance you’re running a Gitlab version prior to 12.0 ?