title: How do I exit a gitlab pipeline early without failure?
body: <p>I have a gitlab <code>.gitlab-ci.yml</code> pipeline where the first job makes a decision about whether the rest are executed. Neither choice is a “failure” in the “send email and alert everyone” sense. It simply does or doesn’t need to be done at that time.</p>
  <p>I’m looking for the opposite of <code>allow_failure: true</code> which allows the pipeline to continue regardless of the exit status of the job. Instead, I want determine the continuation status.</p>
  <p>Is there an easy or common way to do this? Or am I, once again, stuck with generating yaml files?</p>