Conditionally execute some steps in pipeline

[Raul Guiu]

I am using semantic release in my pipeline.

if semantic release creates a new version:

1. create a new docker image

2. deploy to QA environment

My problem is that I dont know how to stop step 2 from happening. I can avoid the deployment if in the script adding a check, but the step will have been executed and it will look in the deployment section that a new deployment has been perform.

I tried with a "condition", but it is not good, because my rules to deploy can not be defined with a simple changeset.

My only current idea is to use tags to handle the deploys.

Any other suggestions.

[Theodora Boudale · Accepted solution]

Hi Raul and welcome to the community!

I'm afraid that it is not possible to condition the execution of a step on anything other than a changeset at the moment. We have a feature request for what you are asking:

• https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BCLOUD-19512

Since you'd be interested in that, I would suggest adding a comment and your vote to that feature request to further express your interest. You can also add yourself as a watcher if you'd like to get notified via email on updates.

In the meantime, apart from the ideas you already had, another suggestion I can make is to make this step manual by adding trigger: manual to the step. You can then manually trigger the second step if your condition is met. Please keep in mind though that if there is a third step after the second one, then the second one must complete in order for the third one to run.

Kind regards,
Theodora