[GIT] Tags for versioning and GitLab CI

In one of my current projects, i decided to use versions for my stage environment. I found that way quite useful and therefore i would like to share it with you.

So in the current setup we have 3 environments:

• development (for front-end developers and testing)
• stage (for proper QA and demos)
• production (for actual usage)

Development and production environments are automatically updated from the corresponding branches (dev and master).

deploy:dev:
  stage: deploy
  only:
    - dev

But for staging — there are version tags. Commonly those tags are created from the dev branch and are automatically updated using GitLab CI. It supports regular expressions and I created a simple one for versions in format v(float) e.g. v1.3

deploy:stage:
  stage: deploy
  only:
    - /^v[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$/

https://regex101.com/r/O08jjy/3 — here you can check examples and explanations of used regular expression.

Thanks for reading! Hope you’ll find it helpful.

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