Switch between deploying to staging or production
Description
Auto DevOps has jobs defined for automatically deploying to staging and production, but only one is active at a time and a user needs to edit the .gitlab-ci.yml to configure deployments to staging. We should use variables to control this flow instead.
Proposal
- Listen for
AUTO_DEVOPS_STRATEGY - Make staging job
only: expressions: $KUBECONFIG && &KUBE_DOMAIN && $AUTO_DEVOPS_STRATEGY=='staging' - Make a new job for production with
when: manualandonly: expressions: $KUBECONFIG && &KUBE_DOMAIN && $AUTO_DEVOPS_STRATEGY=='staging' - Make existing production job
only: expressions: $KUBECONFIG && &KUBE_DOMAIN && $AUTO_DEVOPS_STRATEGY=='production' - With https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/38547, add UI to set deployment strategy
Alternatively, use AUTO_DEVOPS_CONTINUOUS_DEPLOYMENT true/false to indicate production/staging respectively. This may be necessary as the next iteration of expressions may only support true/false.
Links / references
- Depends on https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/37397
- Part of https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/37290
Documentation blurb
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- Added to features.yml