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DevOps & CI/CD Bug Report

GitLab CI runs two pipelines on every push: branch and merge request pipelines

Ryan Pham · Feb 18, 2026 · 6 min read

After we added merge request rules to a few jobs, every push to an open merge request started two pipelines, doubling runner usage. Job-level rules matched both the branch push and the merge request event. A workflow:rules block that picks one pipeline type fixed it.

Banner: a Terraform state file held by a stale lock after a cancelled CI pipeline

DevOps & CI/CD Bug Report

Terraform "Error acquiring the state lock" after a cancelled CI pipeline

Daniel Tran · Mar 18, 2025 · 9 min read

A cancelled GitLab pipeline killed terraform apply mid-run and left the S3 backend locked. Every plan after that failed with Error acquiring the state lock. How we proved no run was active, unlocked safely, checked for drift, and stopped CI from cancelling applies.