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Tutorial: Advanced use case for GitLab Pipeline Execution Policies

Tutorial: Advanced use case for GitLab Pipeline Execution Policies

1/22/2025 · Dan Rabinovitz

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This post details a practical implementation of GitLab's Pipeline Execution Policies to enforce specific CI/CD stages and jobs. It provides a concrete example of using a shell script to query pipeline jobs via the GitLab API and then using injected YAML to define approved stages and jobs. The tutorial demonstrates how to configure a policy to inject this YAML, ensuring that only approved jobs and stages are executed, thereby enforcing security and compliance guardrails.

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