Executing a CircleCI job only when tag matches a certain pattern - circleci

Question

I have the following workflow definition for a CircleCI build
workflows:
version: 2
default:
jobs:
- verify
- tests_3_1:
requires:
- verify
- tests_5_0:
requires:
- verify
- pack:
requires:
- tests_3_1
- tests_5_0
- push:
requires:
- pack
context:
- GitHub
filters:
tags:
only: /^v(0|[1-9]\d*)\.(0|[1-9]\d*)\.(0|[1-9]\d*)(?:-((?:0|[1-9]\d*|\d*[a-zA-Z-][0-9a-zA-Z-]*)(?:\.(?:0|[1-9]\d*|\d*[a-zA-Z-][0-9a-zA-Z-]*))*))?(?:\+([0-9a-zA-Z-]+(?:\.[0-9a-zA-Z-]+)*))?$/
branches:
ignore: /.*/
The idea is to:
run verify, test_3_1, test_5_0, pack on all commits
on top of the jobs above, run the job push when on master and with a tag that matches a semver version prepended by a v
For some reason no build is triggered when the commit is tagged. I am not sure if the problem is in the filter or in the regex not matching the build tags.
For now I tried v0.1.0-preview-0001 which matches on RegexPal.
Could you suggest any improvement? I see there is this question that is pretty similar but I have issues implementing the suggested solution

Answer 1

I solved this by specifying a tag regex filter for every job before push as shown in the documentation.
workflows:
version: 2
default:
jobs:
- verify:
filters:
tags:
only: /.*/
- tests_3_1:
requires:
- verify
filters:
tags:
only: /.*/
- tests_5_0:
requires:
- verify
filters:
tags:
only: /.*/
- pack:
requires:
- tests_3_1
- tests_5_0
filters:
tags:
only: /.*/
- push:
requires:
- pack
context:
- GitHub
filters:
tags:
only: /^v(0|[1-9]\d*)\.(0|[1-9]\d*)\.(0|[1-9]\d*)(?:-((?:0|[1-9]\d*|\d*[a-zA-Z-][0-9a-zA-Z-]*)(?:\.(?:0|[1-9]\d*|\d*[a-zA-Z-][0-9a-zA-Z-]*))*))?(?:\+([0-9a-zA-Z-]+(?:\.[0-9a-zA-Z-]+)*))?$/
branches:
ignore: /.*/