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How to run a job on the basis of pipeline variables in Gitlab?

I am trying to execute a job on some pipeline variables. I have used 'rules' in my .gitlab-ci.yml file but getting the error "key may not be used with 'rules': only". How can I do this?

build-dev:
  stage: build
  only:
    - master
    - branches
  rules:
    - if: '$CI_COMMIT_BRANCH=="my-featured-branch"'
      when : never
Solution

  • The error you're receiving is literally what it says: you shouldn't use only with rules together in the same job.

    Basically the reason is that this could lead into problems due to mixed behavior.

    From the documentation:

    rules replaces only/except and they can’t be used together in the same job. If you configure one job to use both keywords, the GitLab returns a key may not be used with rules error.