Orchestrate pipeline stages, jobs, and steps - Alibaba Cloud DevOps

This topic describes how to orchestrate pipeline stages, jobs, and steps to allow you to tailor and streamline your continuous integration or continuous delivery (CI/CD) workflow.

Alibaba Cloud DevOps Flow provides the process configuration feature to allow you to customize your CI/CD process. This way, you can orchestrate component capabilities such as building, deployment, testing, and control to automate your business processes from development to release.

Flow provides the following orchestration capabilities:

Stage: a collection of jobs to be executed in a pipeline. A stage can be executed manually or automatically. Execution between stages is serial.
Job: the action to be completed during a stage. Multiple jobs can be executed in sequence or in parallel. Typical job types include code scanning, unit testing, building, deployment, merge request, and manual approval.
Step: the core underlying capability in Flow. A pipeline consists of a series of orchestrated steps.

Stage orchestration

On the pipeline configuration page, click + to add a stage. In the Select Job Group panel that appears, select a job template to quickly create jobs for the current stage.
After a job is created, click the job card to configure the job.

Job orchestration

Add a parallel job

On the pipeline editor page, hover over a stage and click the + Parallel Jobs button that appears. In the Select Job Group panel, choose a suitable job group template to add parallel jobs.

The left side of the panel lists job categories, such as static code scan, test, build, and deployment. The right side shows the job templates available in the selected category. For example, the build category includes templates like Java build, Python build, Go build, Node.js build, .NET Core build, GCC build, and PHP build.

Add a serial job

On the pipeline editor page, hover over a job and click the + button that appears before or after it. In the Select Job Group panel, choose a job group template to add a sequential job.

Step orchestration

On the pipeline editor page, click a job to open its configuration panel. Click Add Step to add steps as needed to complete the job.

The following table describes the steps that Flow provides.

Step classification	Step
Static code scan	Android code scan Cpp code scan Golang code scan Java code scan JavaScript code scan Java Coding Guideline-based Scan PHP Metrics static code scan Source code vulnerability detection Python code security scan Python dependency security scan Python code scan SonarQube TypeScript code scan
Test	Android unit test PHP Codeception unit test Golang unit test Gradle unit test Maven unit test Junit report analysis Node.js unit test PHP unit test Python unit test
Build	ASP.NET build Cache build Git version retrieval Custom environment build Build an image and push it to Alibaba Cloud Image Warehouse Build and push the image to Alibaba Cloud Image Warehouse Enterprise Edition Build an image and push it to Alibaba Cloud Image Warehouse Personal Edition .NET Core build Command running Chart upload to a custom repository GCC build Golang build Java build Node.js build PHP build Python build Ruby build Rust build Serverless Devs
Code	Check if behind the specified branch Branch deletion Merge request Git tags
Coverage	Cobertura coverage collection JaCoCo coverage collection Python test coverage collection
Tool	ECS tag value switching environment variables in file replacement OSS deletion Variable definition
Deploy	ECS deployment Helm Release Kubectl apply Kubectl image update ROS deployment
Upload	Report upload OSS upload Build upload to EDAS or SAE Build upload
Download	OSS download
Custom step	Custom organizational steps with Flow-CLI tools