基于gitlab CI中的git标签的条件自动部署

Question

I'm setting up a deployment process for my website with gitlab CI. I have a production website and a sub-domain with a staging deployment.

Let's say I have different branches among them : master and release. I have a file .yaml that is configured such that : if I push on master, I have a deployment on production (with a manual option) and if I push on my branch release, I have an automatic deployment on staging .

git push origin master 

deploys to production (with manual validation),

git push origin release 

deploys to staging. And any other branch that are pushed do not deploy.

We are several guys to work and, sometimes, we would like to be able to deploy another branch (eg feature ) on staging when specifying a tag (eg specifictag ) on a git push :

git tag specifictag    
git push origin feature --tags

This would be useful for me because sometimes some developers would like to test their codes before merging to release and we don't want to create a third environment. And of course we don't want to deploy every time we push on any branch.

stages:

  - staging

  - production

test-deployment:

  stage: staging

  script:

    - [...]

  only:

    - release

  tags:

    - extranetserver

prod-deployment:

  stage: production

  script:

    - [...]

  only:

    - master

  tags:

    - extranetserver

  when: manual

Has anyone an idea on how to use tag as a way to force a deployment when a specific tag is pushed ? Thanks!

Answer 1

You can use regex, like

test-deployment:
    only:
        - /^staging-/

And tag your commit, begin with "staging-". When you push, the job should run.