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How-to: Ignore errors on steps

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Overview

Certain steps should only be considered warnings and not failures, or, You want to run later tests no matter if previous ones fail.

Details

Fail Fast is activated by default. You can change this by adding fail_fast: false to your steps. An example follows:

steps:
  skip_fail:
    image: alpine
    fail_fast: false
    commands: exit 1

Notes Steps marked like this will not cause a build to be marked as a failure. To mark the pipeline as a failure later, you will need to add a conditional failing step.

  1. Note all the steps you are disabling fail_fast for.
  2. Add a step at a suitable point in your pipeline to check for these steps.
  3. This step should have fail_fast: true and exit with an error. For example:
  check_for_failures:
    image: alpine
    commands: 
      - exit 1
    when:
        condition:
            any:
                myCondition: steps.step_one.result == 'failure' || steps.step_two.result == 'failure' || etc...

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