Here's an example of scheduling pipelines to execute automatically: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/pipelines/schedules.html https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/pipelin

Here's an example of scheduling pipelines to execute automatically: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/pipelines/schedules.html https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/pipelines/schedules.html Here's an example for running pipelines manually (can even be triggered through the UI): https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/#whenmanual https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/#whenmanual I believe the other comments address some of your other concerns as well.