GitLab CI Start job manually (deployment)

Question

Is it possible to mark gitlab ci jobs to start manually?

I need it for deploying application but I want to decide if it's going to be deployed

Answer 1

This has changed since the first answer has been posted. Here's the link to the original Gitlab Issue. It is now supported to do something like

production:   stage: deploy   script: run-deployment $OMNIBUS_GITLAB_PACKAGE   environment: production   when: manual 

Note the when: manual attribute. The UI updates itself to provide a way for users to trigger the job.

Answer 2

Manually approved build steps are not supported directly afaik. But it should be possible to achieve similar behaviour by using ci triggers.

build_package:   stage: build   script:   - make build  upload_package:   stage: package   script:   - if [ -n "${UPLOAD_TO_S3}" ]; then make upload; fi 

Then you can trigger rebuild by making POST request and passing configured variable.

curl -X POST \   -F token=TOKEN \   -F ref=master \   -F "variables[UPLOAD_TO_S3]=true" \   https://gitlab.example.com/api/v3/projects/9/trigger/builds 

If you have own instance of gitlab it should be possible to inject javascript button on each merge request which will make curl call.