Passing Variables to Downstream Pipeline
Problem to Solve
It can be useful in a lot of situations to pass a variable to a downstream (triggered) pipeline. It contain configuration or other important state information that's needed to
We have the syntax that would seem to support this, but when you do it it just passes on the name of the variable. For example, if you create one pipeline and define a variable:
variables:
WHATEVER: 'something'
Trigger another pipeline from the previous one and pass the variable previously created:
pipeline2:
stage: next
variables:
ANYTHING: $WHATEVER
trigger: path/to/another/project
Try to echo the variable ANYTHING in the next pipeline, you'll get '$WHATEVER' instead of 'something'
Proposal
Change the behavior of the above implementation such that when you echo the variable ANYTHING it will show 'something' instead of '$WHATEVER'