How to set the deployment variable and import pipeline config ?

ronwaldo.querol

How do I set the deployment variable and import the pipeline configuration?

 

definitions: 
  steps: 
    - step: &test-deployment-variable
        name: Set Test Deployment Variable
        deployment: Test
        script:
          - echo 'Test'
    - step: &staging-deployment-variable
        name: Set Staging Deployment Variable
        deployment: Stage
        script:
         - echo 'Stage'
    - step: &production-deployment-variable
        name: Set Production Deployment Variable
        deployment: Production
        script:
          - echo 'Production'

pipelines:
    branches:
        develop:
          - step: *production-deployment-variable
          import: application-pipeline:master:shared-pipeline

 

Theodora Boudale

Hi @ronwaldo.querol,

In the importing repository, I'm afraid that it is not possible to combine an imported pipeline with a separate step, as you are currently doing:

pipelines:
  branches:
    develop:
      - step: *production-deployment-variable
      import: application-pipeline:master:shared-pipeline

You can only use a shared pipeline as follows:

pipelines:
  branches:
    develop:
      import: application-pipeline:master:shared-pipeline

We do have a feature request for sharing individual steps and combining an imported pipeline with another step: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BCLOUD-22855

The importing pipeline will use the deployment environment that is defined in application-pipeline:master:shared-pipeline. For example, if that shared pipeline looks like this in the exporting repo

definitions: 
  pipelines:
    shared-pipeline:
      - step:
          deployment: Test
          script:
            - echo $myVar

and you have defined a deployment variable named myVar in the importing repo for the Test environment, this is what the importing pipeline will use.

If you want to use the same in a different pipeline of the importing repo with a different deployment environment, you will need to configure additional shared pipelines in the exporting repo with a different deployment environment and also define the variable myVar in the importing repo in the respective environments.

Please feel free to let me know if you have any questions.

Kind regards,
Theodora