Gitlab CI: Cannot find output of build stage
For each test gitlab-ci clean the build folder, therefore the output files of the build stage are not available in the deploy stage.
You need to rebuild your project also in the deploy stage.
The "stages" are only useful to order your tests, i.e. avoid to try to do a deploy test if a build test failed.
EDIT: Since Gitlab 8.6, it is possible using dependencies feature
I was surprised to see the same behaviour (on GitLab 8.4).
I use cmake
to create makefiles, then make
to build, and then make test
to run the test. I run all these in a build/
directory.
I don't want to repeat myself and identify easily which steps are failing. As such, I've created different gitlab-ci stages: cmake
, make
, test
, etc. I then tell gitlab-ci to keep the build
directory using the cache
option:
cache:
key: "$CI_BUILD_REF_NAME"
untracked: true
paths:
- build/
I think that the key
option will keep the same build directory for all stages acting on the same branch. See the gitlab-ci doc here: http://doc.gitlab.com/ce/ci/yaml/README.html#cache
EDIT: Don't use the cache
for this! GitLab implemented reusable artifacts between stages in 8.4: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/3423
The CI runners will have to be adapted to support this. See: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ci-multi-runner/issues/336