Post-Step Operations

Annotating yours builds and pipelines with dynamic metadata

Post-step operations are a set of optional predefined processes that can be configured on any step. These operations will be executed once the step has completed. The post-step operations allow you to annotate your builds, images and pipelines with extra metadata.

Result Aware Post-Step Operations

You may execute post-step operations conditionally, based on the outcome of the step itself.

To execute operations only when the step has completed successfully, use on_success:

step_name:
  ...
  on_success:
    ...

To execute operations only when the step has failed, use on_fail:

step_name:
  ...
  on_fail:
    ...

Result Agnostic Post-Step Operations

You may execute post-step operations regardless of the outcome of the step itself.

To execute operations regardless of the result, use on_finish:

step_name:
  ...
  on_finish:
    ...

Available Post-Step Operations

Example

Marking a Docker image with the results of unit tests:

build_step:
  title: Building My Docker image
  type: build
  image_name: my-app-image
  tag: 1.0.1
  dockerfile: Dockerfile
run_tests:
  title: Running unit tests
  image: ${{build_step}}
  commands:
   - npm install
   - npm run test
  on_success: # Execute only once the step succeeded
    metadata: 
      set: 
        - ${{build_step.imageId}}: 
          - unit_tests: passed

Running other steps

Post operations are only for metadata. If you want to run a step when another step fails or succeeds you need to use conditional execution of steps and the fail_fast property.

run_tests:
  title: Running unit tests
  image: node:11
  fail_fast: false
  commands:
   - npm install
   - npm run test
print_error_message:
  image: alpine:latest
  title: Marking pipeline status
  commands:
  - echo "Unit tests failed"
  when:
    condition:
      all:
        myCondition: run_tests.result == 'failure'

In this example the step print_error_message will only run if step run_tests has failed.