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Unblocker environment variables
Posted February 25, 2019 by Samuel
Block steps record the person who unblocks them, and this information is available to subsequent steps via $BUILDKITE_UNBLOCKER
environment variables. ๐ฎโโ๏ธ
Due to a quirk in our job environment calculations, these variables were only available in steps that were pipeline uploaded after the block step. This has been fixed, so now all steps after a block step will have the correct unblocker environment variables, no matter how theyโre defined or uploaded. ๐ฏ
So if you upload a deployment pipeline like this: ๐โโ๏ธ
The $BUILDKITE_UNBLOCKER
environment variables will be set to the person who presses the Deploy button: ๐โโ๏ธ
You can read more about block steps in our documentation. ๐
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