Parallelism

Updated 2 years ago by Admin

Pipeline steps are executed sequentially by default. You can optionally describe your build steps as a directed acyclic graph. In the below example we fan-out to execute the first two steps in parallel, and then once complete, we fan-in to execute the final step:

   1  kind: pipeline
2 type: kubernetes
3 name: default
4
5 steps:
6 - name: backend
7 image: golang
8 commands:
9 - go build
10 - go test
11
12 - name: frontend
13 image: node
14 commands:
15 - npm install
16 - npm test
17
18 - name: notify
19 image: plugins/slack
20 settings:
21 webhook:
22 from_secret: webhook
23 depends_on:
24 - frontend
25 - backend

The above example is quite simple, however, you can use this syntax to create very complex execution flows.

Note that when you define the dependency graph you must configure dependencies for all pipeline steps.
Note that you can use conditional steps in your dependency graph. The scheduler automatically corrects the dependency graph for skipped steps.


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