Halt execution of Bamboo build or deploy, without throwing an exception

Question

This seems so trivial, I am almost shy to ask... Depending on certain conditions, which I am able to check by looking at Bamboo variables, I sometimes want to just stop the execution of a build and/or it's deploy. The possibility to conditionally execute steps seems very limited in Bamboo, and I am having trouble solving this. I found a workaround, which is running a script that exits with an error, like a powershell script simple as this

exit 1

But that obviously causes the build to appear as failed, which really isn't what I want. I just want to prevent a deploy in certain conditions.

Does anyone know an elegant way to accomplish a full stop in a Bamboo plan?

Answer 1

You can manually stop a build in progress. From Stopping an active build:

To stop an active plan build:

1. Click Dashboard and then the All Plans tab.
2. Click the 'Stop' icon next to the active plan you want to stop.

It also appears possible to stop the build/deploy programmatically, using the REST API, more specifically making a DELETE request to the appropriate url:

/queue/{projectKey}-{buildKey}-{buildNumber : ([0-9]+)}?stage&executeAllStages ... DELETE Stop build execution.

available response representations:

401 Returned when user does not have sufficient rights to view or execute build for specified plan

204 On success (success is also when build was already completed - so nothing to stop)

404 Returned when specified job does not exist

Answer 2

I know that is not the clean solution everybody looks for and is a nasty workaround, but what worked for me was to squash all my deployment logic into a single Script Task (shell script) and then put the necessary conditions there, such as:

if [ <put condition for terminate here> ] ; then 
   exit 0
fi 
<Continue with other execution logic>

In that way, you can exit with 0 (thus build shows as successful) , but of course that prevents you from reusing all of the out-of-the-box Bamboo Task types that are readily available and questions the benefits of using the bamboo framework as a wrapper.