Re: GitLab CI/CD / GitLabRunner Pipelines: Stages versus Maven Lifecycle (GitLab issue #243078)

Timothy Stone <[email protected]> Fri, 27 Jun 2025 12:51:13 -0400

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On 6/26/25 09:01, Andreas A Loew -Extern wrote:
> Hello Maven experts,
> 
> having started to make a big legacy enterprise Java project (which 
> previously used Jenkins) ready to build through GitLab CI/CD, I ran into 
> the exact same problems as described here with regards to an obvious 
> misfit between the concepts of GitLab Runner CI/CD and Maven:
> 
> https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/234078 <https:// 
> gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/234078>

Well, I can't address the core issue with GitLab (yet, it is an open 
source project and I might take a look to see if there is something to 
contribute to address the issue).

...snip...

> Is there any established strategy in the Maven community on how to set 
> up continuous builds/deployments using GitLab CI/CD? Or are we still – 5 
> years after the above issue has been opened with GitLab – lacking a 
> “standard” solution here?

Take a look at the To Be Continuous Maven Pipeline templates.

https://gitlab.com/to-be-continuous/maven

As a contributor to the templates I can speak to their success in our 
enterprise. There are a number of strategies that the templates employ 
to reduce builds and more via the jobs in a set of unified stages that 
align to GitLab practices and dynamic pipelines.

See the contribution guide for hints "to borrow"

https://to-be-continuous.gitlab.io/doc/dev/workflow/

And the Understanding and Usage guides may also be of help in your work

https://to-be-continuous.gitlab.io/doc/understand/

https://to-be-continuous.gitlab.io/doc/usage/

> 
> Many thanks in advance for your kind help & best regards
> Andreas

HTH. Tim

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