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Manual Pipeline

We've seen what starting a manual pipeline looks like when covering the same topic for our Terraform CI pipeline. We'll cover the process again here in brief.

Just like our Terraform pipeline it won't trigger unless we're making changes to specific files. In the case of our application that means *.go files. We're not making changes to such files in this case, so the pipeline won't run. That's why we're having to manually run the pipeline again.

Manual Trigger

Once we've written and committed our .gitlab-ci.yml file we can trigger the pipeline in the GitLab CI UI.

  1. Navigate to the http-cats/application/httpcats repository in the GitLab console
  2. Use the menu on the left to go to CI/CD and then Pipelines
  3. Click Run pipeline in the top right of the screen

We can run straight from the master (or main as it's now called by default) branch and we don't need any additional variables.

What we'll see is our two stages that will build an artefact (ZIP files containing the binary and the static files) and then publish the artefact into the GitLab package repository.

At this point in time we know everything there is to explore the pipeline and see the results.

Next

Let's now take a look in the package registry and review the results of the pipeline.