Enhancements on the list the deployments related to a release
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Release notes
Currently the List the deployments related to a release is able to link only if the deployment is released from a Git Tag pipeline.
Also if there are multiple deployments to multiple environments in the same release pipeline (for instance if the same pipeline deploys to Staging and Production environments, or if the pipelines deploy multiple components, for instance in a monorepo setup), all of them are linked to the release, and it is not possible to restrict to show only the relevant deployments (for instance only the production deployments or only specific components deployments).
Problem to solve
As a release manager, I want more flexibility in how to link deployments and releases, so I can tweak the options to see the relevant deployment information from releases.
Intended users
Proposal
GitLab should provide an optional better way to link deployments to releases. Currently deployments are automatically linked based on the pipeline ref. We should have an optional configuration to the .gitlab-ci.yml file in order to be able to override the ref, so that we can link the deployments to related releases in a better way.
environment:
ref: <custom_ref for instance $CUSTOM_TAG>That would provide much more flexibility to link deployments to releases and would cover much more use-cases.
Further details
Typical use cases would be projects running releases from no-TAG pipelines or within complex pipelines with multiple deployments, for instance in monorepo projects. This will enable the current feature for this kind of projects.