01-single-time-trigger

A Concourse CI pipeline with a single time trigger

This page provides an example of a pipeline that is triggered by a time resource on a pre-determined interval.

The time resource produces a new trigger (or a new version in Concourse resource lingo) for the time interval that was declared in its definition in the pipeline configuration file.

• For example, a trigger for a time range:

resources:
- name: trigger-daily-between-1am-and-2am
  type: time
  source:
    start: 1:00 AM
    stop: 2:00 AM
    location: America/Phoenix

or, a trigger for a time interval:

resources:
- name: trigger-every-3-minutes
  type: time
  source:
    interval: 3m

Sample pipeline

The pipeline below provides a sample of multiple jobs that are automatically triggered by a single interval time resource. Download its configuration file here.

How to test the pipeline

To create the sample pipeline in your concourse server, download file scheduled-pipeline-01 and issue the following fly command:
fly -t <your-concourse-alias> set-pipeline -p simple-timer -c scheduled-pipeline-01.yml

Then unpaused the pipeline in Concourse and it should automatically get triggered within 3 minutes.

See also

• A CI pipeline with multiple time trigger resources