GitLab CI – allowing later stages to run if manual job in previous stage is not run

By default, later stages will not run if a previous stage in your GitLab pipeline fails. If you have a manual job in a previous stage, not running that job will also block later stages from running automatically.

To allow a later stage to run, mark any optional/manual jobs with ‘allow_failure: true’

For example:

stages:
- build
- setup
- deploy

build:
  stage: build
  script:
    - doTaskA

optional-setup:
  stage: setup
  script:
    - doOptionalSetup
  allow_failure: true
  when: manual

deploy:
  stage: deploy
  script:
    - doTaskC
  when: manual