Custom 'when' or events

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this is not possible, but if you want to manually trigger builds you can use drone deploy. You pick and existing build number, and you promote it. Example command signature:

drone deploy <repo> <build number> <environment>

Example command with dummy data

drone deploy octocat/hello-world 22 prod

Then in your yaml you can specify that certain steps should only execute for deployment events and for certain environments. For example:

pipeline:
  ...
  docker_stage:
    image: plugins/docker
    when:
      event: deployment
      environment: staging
  docker_prod:
    image: plugins/docker
    when:
      event: deployment
      environment: production

Note that you will need to enable deployment events for your repository for this to work. You can enable deployment events by going to your repository settings in Drone.

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