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diff --git a/doc/ci/directed_acyclic_graph/index.md b/doc/ci/directed_acyclic_graph/index.md index 04f27c584b7..47cc6f8e677 100644 --- a/doc/ci/directed_acyclic_graph/index.md +++ b/doc/ci/directed_acyclic_graph/index.md @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ be set up. For example, you may have a specific tool or separate website that is built as part of your main project. Using a DAG, you can specify the relationship between -these jobs and GitLab will then execute the jobs as soon as possible instead of waiting +these jobs and GitLab executes the jobs as soon as possible instead of waiting for each stage to complete. Unlike other DAG solutions for CI/CD, GitLab does not require you to choose one or the @@ -44,9 +44,9 @@ It has a pipeline that looks like the following: | build_d | test_d | deploy_d | Using a DAG, you can relate the `_a` jobs to each other separately from the `_b` jobs, -and even if service `a` takes a very long time to build, service `b` will not -wait for it and will finish as quickly as it can. In this very same pipeline, `_c` and -`_d` can be left alone and will run together in staged sequence just like any normal +and even if service `a` takes a very long time to build, service `b` doesn't +wait for it and finishes as quickly as it can. In this very same pipeline, `_c` and +`_d` can be left alone and run together in staged sequence just like any normal GitLab pipeline. ## Use cases @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ but related microservices. Additionally, a DAG can help with general speediness of pipelines and helping to deliver fast feedback. By creating dependency relationships that don't unnecessarily -block each other, your pipelines will run as quickly as possible regardless of +block each other, your pipelines run as quickly as possible regardless of pipeline stages, ensuring output (including errors) is available to developers as quickly as possible. @@ -88,13 +88,13 @@ are certain use cases that you may need to work around. For more information: > - It's enabled on GitLab.com. > - For GitLab self-managed instances, GitLab administrators can opt to [disable it](#enable-or-disable-needs-visualization). -The needs visualization makes it easier to visualize the relationships between dependent jobs in a DAG. This graph will display all the jobs in a pipeline that need or are needed by other jobs. Jobs with no relationships are not displayed in this view. +The needs visualization makes it easier to visualize the relationships between dependent jobs in a DAG. This graph displays all the jobs in a pipeline that need or are needed by other jobs. Jobs with no relationships are not displayed in this view. To see the needs visualization, click on the **Needs** tab when viewing a pipeline that uses the `needs:` keyword.  -Clicking a node will highlight all the job paths it depends on. +Clicking a node highlights all the job paths it depends on.  |