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Pipelines 🛫

Description​

Pipelines are the history of the execution of your workflow.

These pipelines contain both your triggered workflows and any action performed in one action tab.

Pipeline overview

Pipeline information​

Pipeline info

Status​

There are 7 status of any given pipeline:

  1. Scheduled: the pipeline is accepted by Brainboard for execution and put in the pool to be picked by a runner.
    • By default: all jobs are accepted.
  2. Pending: the pipeline is pending to be picked by a runner to execute it.
  3. Running: the pipeline has been picked by a runner that is currently executing its tasks.
  4. Succeeded: the execution of the pipeline ended and all tasks were successful.
  5. Failed: the execution of the pipeline ended and some of the tasks failed.
    • The pipeline is considered failed, when at least one task fails.
    • When you ignore errors in tasks to not stop the pipeline, if they fail, the pipeline is considered failed even if the execution of the last task is successful.
  6. Terminated: the pipeline has been stopped by a user.
  7. Manual: the pipeline requires approval. It means that at least one task of the pipeline is pending approval.

Pipeline status

Unique identifier​

Every pipeline has a unique identifier. It is used to store and retrieve its output.

The id displayed in this column is the last 12 characters of the UUID of the pipeline.

UUID

The complete UUID is visible in the URL of the browser. You use usually need it when you open a support ticket.

Visual stages and tasks​

This is a minified graph of the pipeline.

It contains all tasks, and you can see the name and status of every task when you hover it.

Initiator​

The avatar of the person that triggered the pipeline.

Hover this avatar to see the complete name of the person.

Date​

Time of when the pipeline has been triggered.

Stop button​

This button allows you terminate/stop a running pipeline. It is only active when the pipeline is running.

Run pipeline​

To run the pipeline, go to the CI/CD designer and click on the button Run pipeline.

Refer to the CI/CD page for more details.

Stop pipeline​

To stop the pipeline, click on the button Stop pipeline located at the right of the pipeline. This button is only active when the pipeline is running.

Output​

To open the output of any pipeline, click on it in the table of pipelines.

Pipeline output

Tasks status​

Tasks has the same status as the pipeline.