Running parallel test on gitlab ci with retry - can't make it happen

[efiShtain]

The Problem

Running in gitlab-ci, using parallel, trying to allow re running only the failed jobs.

I have the following (reduced) pipeline

Run Cypress:
  stage: verify
  image: cypress/browsers:node16.16.0-chrome107-ff107-edge
  script:
    - npx cypress run --config baseUrl=<MY_FRONTEND_URL>,projectId=$CYPRESS_PROJECT_ID --parallel --record --browser chrome --group "TESTSt" --ci-build-id=$CI_PIPELINE_ID-$CI_JOB_ID
    expire_in: 5 day
  parallel: 5

It spawns 5 parallel jobs that should split the specs based on cypress cloud orchestrator. The --ci-build-id flag is here to support retry failed job based on the workaround described here issue #8451

The workaround works well if I set the parallel to 1

But when trying to run tests in parallel > 1 it does not work

Each job gets a unique ci-build-id so cypress cloud does not split the specs between the jobs

If I stick to the inferred ci-build-id (which is CI_PIPELINE_ID in gitlab), the parallel execution works, but I can't retry any failed job

Any ideas ?

[prateekj117]

@efiShtain Did you find any workaround for this?