Select which scripts will run in the pipeline

[Júlio César Fonseca Costa]

Hello,

I would like to know if it is possible when running a pipeline, to choose which scripts will be executed. Ex:

release: &release

- step:

     name:  Release

     trigger: manual

          deployment: production

          artifacts:

               download: false

           script:

               - chmod +x sh/script.sh

               - ./sh/script.sh api1

               - ./sh/script.sh api2

               - ./sh/script.sh api3

would it be possible to open a question asking which api for example I want to include to run the script?

In the way I developed the 3 always run, but I would like to have the possibility of being something dynamic, where sometimes I can run all or just one or two.

[Theodora Boudale · Accepted solution]

Hi @Júlio César Fonseca Costa and welcome to the community!

It is not possible to execute only some commands of a step's script. When a step runs, all the commands in its script will be executed sequentially (unless one of them fails and the step fails, then the rest won't be executed).

If you don't want all of them to be executed, you can create a separate manual step for each API and then run manually the step(s) you want.

Another option would be to use a custom pipeline that can make use of variables, as follows:

pipelines:
  custom:
    my-custom-pipeline-name:  #name of this pipeline
      - variables:            #list variable names under here
        - name: api
          default: "api1"     # optionally provide a default variable value
          allowed-values:     # optionally restrict variable values
            - "api1"
            - "api2"
            - "api3"
      - step: 
          script:
            - chmod +x sh/script.sh
            - ./sh/script.sh $api

In this example, I am using a variable named api, with allowed values api1, api2, and api3. When you try to run manually a custom pipeline like this, you will be asked to choose the value for the variable api. If you want to run more than 1 apis, you will need to run the custom pipeline multiple times, one for each value.

If you have any questions, please feel free to let me know.

Kind regards,
Theodora

[Júlio César Fonseca Costa]

Hello @Theodora Boudale

Thanks for your answer, I'm going to use the option of having custom pipelines anyway.

Thank you very much.

[Theodora Boudale]

You are very welcome @Júlio César Fonseca Costa, please feel free to reach out if you ever need anything else!

Kind regards,
Theodora