Pipeline states

[madisp]

Hi what are the pipeline states and what’s the rough transition order? The documentation in CircleCI API just lists them:

state required string
Enum: "created" "errored" "setup-pending" "setup" "pending"

The current state of the pipeline.

[aaronclark]

Hi @madisp,

The pipeline states are those which you have mentioned, but here is the general flow for the transitions:

1. Regular Pipelines
   a. created → pending → (no error) → created
   b. created → pending → (error) → errored

2. Pipelines with Setup Workflows
   a. created → setup-pending → setup → (no error) → (continuation request) → pending → (no error) → created
   b. created → setup-pending → setup → (error) → errored
   c. created → setup-pending → setup → (no error) → (continuation request) → pending → (error) → errored

There might be one or two cases missing from the above depending on where an error occurs.

In the setup workflow flow, continuation request is referring to a step that happens when creating a dynamic workflow. Documentation of the API for this can be found here as well:

https://circleci.com/docs/api/v2/#operation/continuePipeline

Let me know if you have any additional questions!