How do you trigger a pipeline on a merge request?

How do you trigger a pipeline on a merge request?

In the merge request, go to the Pipelines tab and select Run pipeline. Fork merge requests can contain malicious code that tries to steal secrets in the parent project when the pipeline runs, even before merge. As a reviewer, you must carefully check the changes in the merge request before triggering the pipeline.

What’s a merge request?

A merge request (MR) is a request from someone to merge in code from one branch to another. You’ll be asked to select a “From” branch and a “To” branch.

How do I run a CI pipeline locally?

1. Go to your git directory cd my-git-project.
2. Create a .gitlab-ci.yml.
3. Create a docker container with your project dir mounted docker run -d \ –name gitlab-runner \ –restart always \ -v $PWD:$PWD \ -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \ gitlab/gitlab-runner:latest.

What happens when you create a merge request?

Pull/Merge requests are created if you are working in a feature branch and wants to merge your change in main branch(eg. Master branch). The merge requests serves as a code review tool and if your code reveals shortcomings/issues anyone(usually other developers) can commit and push a fix.

What are pipelines for merged results in GitLab?

Pipelines for Merged Results are merge request pipelines that act as though the changes from the source branch have already been merged into the target branch. Merge Trains use pipelines for merged results to queue merges one after the other.

How to make GitLab CI trigger only for merge request?

And using gitlab-ci thats comes built-in. By default, gitlab-ci is triggering build for every push. How can make it trigger only during creation of merge request?

When to run job in CI pipeline only on Merge branch?

First 3 stages (build, test and package) should be run on each push to the git and the last one (post_merge) should be run only when project maintainer is merged merge request into the master branch. On the “package” stage I create a docker-image with my application and push this image into the local docker-registry.

How does a parent child pipeline work in GitLab?

Parent-Child pipelines break down complex pipelines into one parent pipeline that can trigger multiple child sub-pipelines, which all run in the same project and with the same SHA. Pipelines for Merge Requests run for merge requests only (rather than for every commit).