Let's say I have these stages defined in .gitlab-ci.yml:
stages:
- build
- analysis
- tests
- deploy
- post-deploy
Since analysis takes a lot of time and I don't really care about the result (I also have allow_failure: true set) - is it possible to somehow define to start analysis and then immediately launch the next stage tests?
I didn't find any reference to similar topic on official docs.
EDIT:
The main idea is that all other stages can be run as if the analysis didn't even exist. If i put analysis to same stage as tests, then both analysis and tests will run at the same time, however deploy won't be launched until both of them finish. This is no good. I want tests to finish and then launch deploy, after deploy finishes I want to launch post-deploy. I really don't care about analysis result, I simply want to trigger it and continue with the deployment.
Stages are per definition serial. One stage will be executed after another.
If you want to process analysis and tests parallelly, you have to define them on the same stage.
stages:
- build
- processing
- deploy
- ...
analysis:
stage: processing
...
tests:
stage: processing
...