is there any documentation about anchors?
Searching for anchor at https://docs.drone.io/ I get no result
Even though I’m able to use it I was wondering if it is possible to set anchors for all pipelines to avoid repeating the same information over and over again.
We don’t explicitly document anchors since this is a generic Yaml feature as opposed to a Drone feature. Perhaps we should consider providing some examples or a primer, or even linking to external Yaml tutorials … However, in the meantime, any generic tutorial on anchors should be applicable to Drone.
You can also use the following generic yaml tool to test out anchors:
https://yaml-online-parser.appspot.com/
For example, you can enter the below yaml in the above link to see how anchors work:
kind: pipeline
type: docker
name: default
defs:
image: &image golang:1.16
steps:
- name: build
image: *image
commands:
- go build
- name: test
image: *image
commands:
- go test
Thanks for the reply @bradrydzewski
That’s make sense.
What I was trying to achieve is use one anchor on more than one pipeline like so:
kind: pipeline
name: pipe-1
anchors:
- &my-anchor:
when:
branch:
- master
steps:
- name: step-1
<< : *my-anchor
---
kind: pipeline
name: pipe-2
steps:
- name: step-2
<< : *my-anchor
Is this possible in any way?
the yaml specification dictates the each document is completely independent from the rest, which mean anchors cannot be shared across documents.