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GitLab CI Events Proposal 3: Using the .gitlab/ci/events folder

In this proposal we want to create separate files for each group of events. We can define events in the following format: 

# .gitlab/ci/events/package-published.yml

spec:
  events:
    - name: package/published
---
include:
  - local: .gitlab-ci.yml
    with:
      event: $[[ gitlab.event.name ]]

And in the .gitlab-ci.yml file, we can use the input; 

# .gitlab-ci.yml

spec:
  inputs:
    event:
      default: push
---
job1:
  script: echo "Hello World"

job2:
  script: echo "Hello World"

job-for-package-published:
  script: echo "Hello World"
  rules:
    - if: $[[ inputs.event ]] == "package/published"

When an event happens;

  1. We’ll enqueue a new job for the event.
  2. The job will search for the event file in the .gitlab/ci/events folder.
  3. The job will run Ci::CreatePipelineService for the event file.

Problems & Questions

  1. For every defined event run, we need to enqueue a new job.
  2. Every event-job will need to search for files.
  3. This would be only for the project-scope events.
  4. This will not work for GitLab.com scale.