I need to run a certain job on master branch after each merge to it. Pipelines that were scheduled or run manually should not contain this job. Is there a way to do that in GitLab CI?
As a side note, I want to say that I don't want to use "merge_request_event" because it triggers an additional pipeline after every commit to a merge request and it's something that doesn't suit me. But it will also run while triggering a pipeline on master manually and I don't need that
You can add this in you .gitlab-ci.yml file.
job_name:
script:
- your_job_part_1
- your_job_part_2
only:
- master
It will run you job_name each time master is updated, hence, each time a merge request is accepted and branch is merged into master.
You can take a look at GitLab CI/CD for more options.
You can use rules keyword:
job_name:
rules:
- if: $CI_COMMIT_BRANCH == 'master' && $CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE == 'merge_request_event'
You can also replace master string by $CI_DEFAULT_BRANCH variable if you master/main branch is the default.