Promotion without running previous steps

Drone Support
1

Hello,

I’m migrating from Gitlab CI to Drone CI (because Gitlab is too slow and overkill for me).
I try to migrate my CI/CD deployment worklow (so .gitlab-ci.yml) to Drone CI.

I have a pipeline with 1 test step, and 2 promotion steps. Something like that:

kind: pipeline
type: docker
name: default

steps:
  - name: test
    .......

  - name: deploy_app_1
    when:
      event:
        - promote
      target:
        - prod_app_1
    .......

  - name: deploy_app_2
    when:
      event:
        - promote
      target:
        - prod_app_2
    .......

My builds are running all tests when pushing new code, that’s good. But when I want to promote an app (for deployment in production), i trigger a promotion of prod_app_1 for example, then the test step is running again before the prod_app_1 step. So I lost time on running the test step again.

I don’t want to. I just want to run the promotion step (deployment), like in Gitlab CI with its manual job trigger. I’ve read the documentation, but I didn’t find any solution to do it ? I saw the topic How to promote a build to production without running all steps, but the response doesn’t seem to handle my case (i already have some targets and just want to ignore a previous step when promoting).

Regards

2

if you don’t want a step to run for promotion events you can use the exclude syntax:

when:
  event:
    exclude:
    - promote

see https://docs.drone.io/pipeline/conditions/#by-event for more examples

3

Oh sorry i’ve missed that !

Thank you!