Specific paths for pipelines

[gmogames]

Hello,

Are pipeline files strictly required to live under the .buildkite directory, or is there a way to run a pipeline from another path?

In our setup, we keep pipeline files in a separate repository since many of them are shared across repos and platforms. Right now, I haven’t found a way to point to a specific file path — I keep running into this error:

find_buildkite_directory: Unable to find .buildkite from /workdir

I searched through the documentation and specs but wasn’t able to find anything that addressed this directly.

Thanks in advance for any guidance!

[ngan]

Can you try setting the BUILDKITE_BUILDER_PIPELINE_PATH variable?

buildkite-builder/lib/buildkite/builder/commands/abstract.rb

Lines 108 to 113 in 1b49cd1

	def find_root_by_env_path
	if ENV['BUILDKITE_BUILDER_PIPELINE_PATH']
	path = Pathname.new(ENV['BUILDKITE_BUILDER_PIPELINE_PATH'])
	path.absolute? ? path : Builder.root.join(path)
	end
	end

[ngan]

I think you can set BUILDKITE_BUILDER_PIPELINE_PATH to /my/custom/path/.buildkite/pipelines/foobar. This directory is expected to contain the pipeline.rb file.