Parallelism

Pipeline steps are executed sequentially by default. You can optionally describe your build steps as a directed acyclic graph. In the below example we fan-out to execute the first two steps in parallel, and then once complete, we fan-in to execute the final step:

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kind: pipeline
type: vm
name: default

pool:
  use: ubuntu

steps:
- name: backend
  image: golang
  commands:
  - go build
  - go test

- name: frontend
  image: node
  commands:
  - npm install
  - npm test

- name: notify
  image: plugins/slack
  settings:
    webhook:
      from_secret: webhook
  depends_on:
  - frontend
  - backend

The above example is quite simple, however, you can use this syntax to create very complex execution flows.

Note that when you define the dependency graph you must configure dependencies for all pipeline steps.
Note that you can use conditional steps in your dependency graph. The scheduler automatically corrects the dependency graph for skipped steps.