Commit b782358f authored by Grzegorz Bizon's avatar Grzegorz Bizon

Add some basic docs about blocking manual actions

parent 26e1ec0e
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Manual actions are a special type of job that are not executed automatically;
they need to be explicitly started by a user. Manual actions can be started
from pipeline, build, environment, and deployment views. You can execute the
same manual action multiple times.
from pipeline, build, environment, and deployment views.
An example usage of manual actions is deployment to production.
Read more at the [environments documentation][env-manual].
Manual actions can be either optional or blocking. Blocking manual action will
block execution of the pipeline at stage this action is defined in. It is
possible to resume execution of the pipeline when someone executes a blocking
manual actions by clicking a _play_ button.
When pipeline is blocked it will not be merged if Merge When Pipeline Succeeds
is set. Blocked pipelines also do have a special status, called _manual_.
Manual actions are non-blocking by default. If you want to make manual action
blocking, it is necessary to add `allow_failure: false` to the job's definition
in `.gitlab-ci.yml`.
> Blocking manual actions were introduced in GitLab 9.0
### environment
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