gitLab CI: needs:

needs: introduced in Aug 2019 (GitLab 12.2) to create relations between jobs and execute jobs out-of-order.

• https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/#needs
• https://about.gitlab.com/2019/08/22/gitlab-12-2-released/index.html#directed-acyclic-graphs-dag-for-gitlab-pipelines

Related

• GitHub actions: needs:

See also

• gitlab-ci.yml, job: | stage: | stages: | artifacts: | include: | script: | when: | only: | needs:
• GitLab CI, variables, templates, executors, .gitlab-ci.yml, .gitlab/, Credential helpers, notifications, pipeline editor, Keyword reference, Changelog, ContainersNotReady, GitLab environments

https://about.gitlab.com/2019/08/22/gitlab-12-2-released/index.html