[k8s] How do I recognize the job status to proceed further steps in a plugin application?

Hello folks,

I develop a plugin for internal usage. I need to know if a previous step is failed or the state has been changed. I checked the environment variables which are passed to the container as part of the kubernetes pod, but I can’t find any environment variable which contains information about the failed|changed previous job status.

How can I recognise if the previous job status is failed or changed? Each environment variable contains as status success.

Here is my example pipeline to print all passed environment variables of the
prev-stage-status container on stdout. Some of the values are redicted.

---
kind: pipeline
type: kubernetes
name: notification-test

node_selector:
  kubernetes.io/os: linux
  kubernetes.io/arch: amd64

steps:
- name: exit-code
  commands:
  - exit 1
  image: docker.io/library/alpine:3.16.0
  resources:
    limits:
      cpu: 150
      memory: 150M

- name: prev-stage-status
  commands:
  - apk update
  - apk upgrade
  - apk add bash
  - bash -c "env | sort"
  image: docker.io/library/alpine:3.16.0
  resources:
    limits:
      cpu: 150
      memory: 150M
  when:
    status:
    - changed
    - failure

trigger:
  event:
    exclude:
    - tag

And here the list of passed environment variables to the prev-stage-status:

CI: true
CI_BUILD_CREATED: 1656410394
CI_BUILD_EVENT: push
CI_BUILD_FINISHED: 0
CI_BUILD_LINK: <redicted>
CI_BUILD_NUMBER: 17
CI_BUILD_STARTED: 0
CI_BUILD_STATUS: pending
CI_BUILD_TARGET:
CI_COMMIT_AUTHOR: <redicted>
CI_COMMIT_AUTHOR_AVATAR: <redicted>
CI_COMMIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL: <redicted>
CI_COMMIT_AUTHOR_NAME: <redicted>
CI_COMMIT_BRANCH: master
CI_COMMIT_MESSAGE: Initial Commit
CI_COMMIT_REF: refs/heads/master
CI_COMMIT_SHA: <redicted>
CI_PARENT_BUILD_NUMBER: 0
CI_REMOTE_URL: <redicted>
CI_REPO: <redicted>
CI_REPO_LINK: <redicted>
CI_REPO_NAME: <redicted>
CI_REPO_PRIVATE: false
CI_REPO_REMOTE: <redicted>
DRONE: true
DRONE_BRANCH: master
DRONE_BUILD_ACTION:
DRONE_BUILD_CREATED: 1656410394
DRONE_BUILD_DEBUG: false
DRONE_BUILD_EVENT: push
DRONE_BUILD_FINISHED: 1656410395
DRONE_BUILD_LINK: <redicted>
DRONE_BUILD_NUMBER: 17
DRONE_BUILD_PARENT: 0
DRONE_BUILD_STARTED: 1656410395
DRONE_BUILD_STATUS: success
DRONE_BUILD_TRIGGER: @hook
DRONE_CARD_PATH: /dev/stdout
DRONE_COMMIT: <redicted>
DRONE_COMMIT_AFTER: <redicted>
DRONE_COMMIT_AUTHOR: <redicted>
DRONE_COMMIT_AUTHOR_AVATAR: <redicted>
DRONE_COMMIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL: <redicted>
DRONE_COMMIT_AUTHOR_NAME: <redicted>
DRONE_COMMIT_BEFORE: <redicted>
DRONE_COMMIT_BRANCH: master
DRONE_COMMIT_LINK: <redicted>
DRONE_COMMIT_MESSAGE: Initial Commit
DRONE_COMMIT_REF: refs/heads/master
DRONE_COMMIT_SHA: <redicted>
DRONE_DEPLOY_ID: 0
DRONE_DEPLOY_TO:
DRONE_DOCKER_VOLUME_ID: <redicted>
DRONE_GIT_HTTP_URL: <redicted>
DRONE_GIT_SSH_URL: <redicted>
DRONE_PORT: tcp://10.101.222.178:80
DRONE_PORT_80_TCP: tcp://10.101.222.178:80
DRONE_PORT_80_TCP_ADDR: 10.101.222.178
DRONE_PORT_80_TCP_PORT: 80
DRONE_PORT_80_TCP_PROTO: tcp
DRONE_REMOTE_URL: <redicted>
DRONE_REPO: <redicted>
DRONE_REPO_BRANCH: master
DRONE_REPO_LINK: <redicted>
DRONE_REPO_NAME: drone-email
DRONE_REPO_NAMESPACE: <redicted>
DRONE_REPO_OWNER: <redicted>
DRONE_REPO_PRIVATE: false
DRONE_REPO_SCM:
DRONE_REPO_VISIBILITY: public
DRONE_SERVICE_HOST: 10.101.222.178
DRONE_SERVICE_PORT: 80
DRONE_SERVICE_PORT_HTTP: 80
DRONE_SOURCE_BRANCH: master
DRONE_STAGE_ARCH: amd64
DRONE_STAGE_DEPENDS_ON:
DRONE_STAGE_FINISHED: 1656410395
DRONE_STAGE_KIND: pipeline
DRONE_STAGE_MACHINE: drone-runner-77f474d9cb-zrnwp
DRONE_STAGE_NAME: notification-test
DRONE_STAGE_NUMBER: 1
DRONE_STAGE_OS: linux
DRONE_STAGE_STARTED: 1656410395
DRONE_STAGE_STATUS: success
DRONE_STAGE_TYPE: kubernetes
DRONE_STAGE_VARIANT:
DRONE_STAGE_VERSION: 2
DRONE_STEP_NAME: prev-stage-status
DRONE_SYSTEM_HOST: <redicted>
DRONE_SYSTEM_HOSTNAME: <redicted>
DRONE_SYSTEM_PROTO: https
DRONE_SYSTEM_VERSION: 2.12.0
DRONE_TARGET_BRANCH: master
DRONE_WORKSPACE: /drone/src