How to trigger Gitlab CI pipeline manually, when in normal conditions, it is triggered by webhook with commit Ids? - gitlab

Question

I have Gitlab CI pipeline which is triggered by bitbucket webhook with current and last commit ids. I also want to re-run pipeline manually whenever the build created Gitlab CI file, triggered by webhook is not working as expected.
I tried RUN-PIPELINE option but shows the error:
The form contains the following error:
No stages/jobs for this pipeline.
Here is the GitLab CI file. Include refers to other project where standard yaml file for the pipeline is kept:
include:
- project: Path/to/project
ref: bb-deployment
file: /bitbucket-deployment.yaml
variables:
TILLER_NAMESPACE: <namespace>
NAMESPACE: testenv
REPO_REF: testenvbranch
LastCommitSHA: <commit sha from webhook>
CurrentCommitSHA: <Current commit she from webhook>
Here is the detailed gitlab-ci file that is provided in other project which has stages:
stages:
- pipeline
- build
variables:
ORG: test
APP_NAME: $CI_PROJECT_NAME
before_script:
- 'which ssh-agent || ( apt-get update -y && apt-get install openssh-client -y )'
- eval $(ssh-agent -s)
- echo "$SSH_PRIIVATE_KEY2" | tr -d '\r' | ssh-add -
- mkdir -p ~/.ssh
- chmod 700 ~/.ssh
- echo "$SSH_KNOWN_HOSTS" > ~/.ssh/known_hosts
- chmod 644 ~/.ssh/known_hosts
Building CI Script:
stage: pipeline
image: python:3.6
only:
refs:
- master
script:
- |
curl https://github.com/org/scripts/branch/install.sh | bash -s latest
source /usr/local/bin/pipeline-variables.sh
git clone git#bitbucket.org:$ORG/$APP_NAME.git
cd $APP_NAME
git checkout $lastCommit
cp -r env old
git checkout $bitbucketCommit
$CMD_DIFF old env
$CMD_BUILD
$CMD_INSTALL updatedReposList.yaml deletedReposList.yaml /tmp/test $NAMESPACE $REPO_REF $ORG $APP_NAME $lastCommit $bitbucketCommit
cat cicd.yaml
mv cicd.yaml ..
artifacts:
paths:
- cicd.yaml
Deplopying Apps:
stage: build
only:
refs:
- master
trigger:
include:
artifact: cicd.yaml
job: Building CI Script
strategy: depend
In the manual trigger, instead of considering the last and current commit she, it should rebuild the application.
Any help will be appreciated.

Answer 1

Thank you for your comment (below), I see you are using the include directive (https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/ci/yaml/#include) in one .gitlab-ci.yml to include a GitLab CI YAML file from another project.
I can duplicate this error (No stages / jobs for this pipeline) by invoking "run pipeline" on project 1 which is configured to include GitLab CI YAML from project 2 when the project 2 GitLab CI YAML is restricted to the master branch but I'm running the project on another branch.
For example, let's say project 1 is called "stackoverflow-test" and its .gitlab-ci.yml is:
include:
- project: atsaloli/test
file: /.gitlab-ci.yml
ref: mybranch
And project 2 is called "test" (in my own namespace, atsaloli) and its .gitlab-ci.yml is:
my_job:
script: echo hello world
image: alpine
only:
refs:
- master
If I select "Run Pipeline" in the GitLab UI in project 1 on a branch other than "master", I then get the error message "No stages / jobs for this pipeline".
That's because there is no job defined for my non-master branch, and then without any job defined, I don't have any stage defined.
I hope that sheds some light on what's going on with your webhook.