Variable precedence

Variable precedence

Variables con be defined on many different levels

GitLab has documented the precedence of variables

The order from lowest to highest precedence is:

• Predefined variables
• Deployment variables
• Global variables in .gitlab-ci.yml (including workflow rules)
• Job variables in .gitlab-ci.yml (after template and rule resolution)
• Variables from dotenv reports
• Instance variables
• Group variables
• Project variables
• Pipeline variables (more on next slide)
• Scan execution policy variables
• Pipeline execution policy variables

More about pipeline variables

Variables that are passed when starting a pipeline

They have the same precedence:

• Manual job variables
• Creating a pipeline trough the API
• Manual pipeline run
• Scheduled pipeline variables
• Trigger variables
• Variables passed downstream

Only one is possible at a time