2025-02-27: Some manual jobs error when triggered

Customer Impact

Some customers may see an error when trying to run manual jobs in CI/CD pipelines:

An error occurred while making the request when they try to click the deploy button

Current Status

  • We found the problem and are reverting the change in gitlab-org/gitlab!182861 (merged)
  • We will roll back to a previous release to expedite getting a fix out
    • release diff: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/security/gitlab/-/compare/230f34f6cf45818cfd322447213e4b4149ad054e...9b280802c76a7b5cb576c580a778ad5960f0f04b

📝 Summary for CMOC notice / Exec summary:

  1. Customer Impact: Some pipeline stages, when manually triggered, fail to start
  2. Service Impact: ServiceWeb
  3. Impact Duration: 08:33 UTC - 14:20 UTC (347 minutes)
  4. Root cause: A code change made to application pipeline logic that was rolled out yesterday

📚 References and helpful links

Recent Events (available internally only):

  • Feature Flag Log - Chatops to toggle Feature Flags Documentation
  • Infrastructure Configurations
  • GCP Events (e.g. host failure)

Deployment Guidance

  • Deployments Log | Gitlab.com Latest Updates
  • Reach out to Release Managers for S1/S2 incidents to discuss Rollbacks, Hot Patching or speeding up deployments. | Rollback Runbook | Hot Patch Runbook

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Edited Feb 28, 2025 by Matthias Käppler
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