Tag filter not firing in workflow

[rofr]

We are building and deploying to a test environment for each push to the master branch on GH. When we push to master with a tag matching ver-nnn.nnn, we want to build and deploy to prod. This was working fine in circle ci v 1.0 but we haven’t got it working after the upgrade to 2.0. Can you see anything obviously wrong with our yaml below?

workflows:
  version: 2
  build-and-deploy:
    jobs:
      - build
      - deploy-dev:
          requires:
            - build
          filters:
            branches:
              only: master

      - deploy-prod:
          requires:
            - build
          filters:
            tags:
              only: /^ver-[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$/
            branches:
              ignore: /.*/

[rofr]

Seems like branches: ignore: /.*/ could be a problem. The .* regex matches any branch and so everything is ignored? But I’ve seen this in examples… Or is ^ and $ the problem?

[halfer]

It’s worked for me in the past, though I use YAML references. Maybe put your YAML and my YAML into this parser to see if they produce different data structures? You may have an indentation problem.

[rofr]

That yaml parser is a great debugging tool, thanks for sharing! Not solved yet, I guess I have to dig in and experiment. I find the ignore /.*/ filter very confusing. What does it actually mean to ignore every branch?

[halfer]

I think ignoring a branch is useful if you want a tag-only trigger. If you don’t also have the ignore, you match on the default branch filter, which is “all”, even if you also have a tag filter.

[FelicianoTech]

You need to apply the tag filters to the build job. Right now you’re not telling it to run for tags, so it’s not. Since deploy-prod requires build, it’s not running either.

[rofr]

Thank you, that solved the problem!