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diff --git a/doc/ci/yaml/README.md b/doc/ci/yaml/README.md index 5f77888f631..31b4fd2669e 100644 --- a/doc/ci/yaml/README.md +++ b/doc/ci/yaml/README.md @@ -485,6 +485,7 @@ failure. 1. `on_failure` - execute build only when at least one build from prior stages fails. 1. `always` - execute build regardless of the status of builds from prior stages. +1. `manual` - execute build manually. For example: @@ -516,6 +517,7 @@ deploy_job: stage: deploy script: - make deploy + when: manual cleanup_job: stage: cleanup @@ -527,7 +529,20 @@ cleanup_job: The above script will: 1. Execute `cleanup_build_job` only when `build_job` fails -2. Always execute `cleanup_job` as the last step in pipeline. +2. Always execute `cleanup_job` as the last step in pipeline +3. Allow you to manually execute `deploy_job` from GitLab + +#### Manual actions + +>**Note:** +Introduced in GitLab 8.10. + +Manual actions are special type of jobs that are not executed automatically in pipeline. +They need to be explicitly started by the user. +Manual actions can be started from pipelines, builds, environments and deployments views. +You can execute the same manual action multiple times. + +Example usage of manual actions is deployment, ex. promote a staging environment to production. ### environment |