Defining parallel sequences of jobs in GitLab CI

Question

In my gitlab-ci.yml file, I have defined 3 stages, and the 2nd and 3rd stages have 3 jobs each, resulting in the following structure:

The 1st and 2nd stage works as I intended, however, for the 3rd stage what I'd actually like to have is something like this (the image is a mockup of course), i.e. "parallel sequences" of jobs if you will:

That is, I want "deploy-b" to start if "build-b" is done, and not waiting for the other build tasks to complete.

Is that possible with GitLab pipelines? (Apart from the obvious solution of defining just 2 stages, the second being "Build-and-Deploy", where I just "merge" the script steps of the current build-* and deploy-* jobs.)

Answer 1

This feature was added in the new GitLab release (v12.2)

Updated link is:

• https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/directed_acyclic_graph/