I currently have these gitlab stages outlined below in my .gitlab-ci.yml

I created it this way to visualize in gitlab each maven stage in the pipeline. however, because maven automatically executes preceding stages in the build life cycle it means i’m wasting a lot of time and cpu in the test and deploy gitlab stages because these re-execute their preceding maven stages.

Is it possible for gitlab and maven to play nicely so I can visualize each maven stage visually in gitlab without maven re-executing previous stages in the build lifecycle and instead use the artifacts from the previous job in the pipeline?

Or, do I need to just consolidate the three stages into a single, ‘mvn clean deploy -U’ stage?

stages:

• build
• test
• deploy

build:
tags:

• core
  variables:
  GIT_STRATEGY: fetch
  stage: build
  script:
• echo ‘Building’
• mvn $MAVEN_CLI_OPTS -T 4 clean install -U

test:
tags:

• core
  stage: test
  script:
• echo ‘Testing’
• mvn $MAVEN_CLI_OPTS test

deploy:
tags:

• core
  artifacts:
  expire_in: 1 week
  when: always
  paths:
  • target/*
    variables:
    GIT_STRATEGY: none
    stage: deploy
    script:
• echo ‘Deploying to Nexus’
• ‘mvn $MAVEN_CLI_OPTS deploy -U’