I have come to find out, my pipeline goes on loop. here is my pipeline
here is what happening,

Problem Summary

1. Pipeline Stages and Goals: • Merge Request Submission: • When a Merge Request (MR) is submitted, the pipeline should run tests to
   ensure the changes are correct. • Merge to Master: • After merging
   an MR to the master branch: • The bump_version job should run to
   increment the version in app/meta.py. • The build-prod job should run
   to build and push Docker images. • The pipeline should stop after the
   build-prod job.
2. Current Behavior: • When an MR is submitted, the tests run successfully. • When the MR is merged to master, the bump_version job
   runs, followed by the build-prod job. • The build-prod job runs
   again, leading to an infinite loop, causing the entire pipeline to
   re-trigger.
3. Suspected Cause: • The bump_version job creates a commit on the master branch, which triggers the build-prod job. • The creation of a
   Git tag by the bump_version job also triggers the entire pipeline
   again.

Desired Behavior

• Ensure that the pipeline does not re-trigger itself after the
bump_version and build-prod jobs. • The pipeline should stop after
the build-prod job when the version bump commit and tag are created.

Requirements:

1. Merge Request (MR) Submission: • Run tests.
2. Merge to Master: • Run bump_version job. • Run build-prod job. • Stop the pipeline after build-prod without retriggering.

stages:
  - build-ci-image
  - lint
  - test
  - bump_version
  - build
  - deploy

variables:

build_ci_image:
  stage: build-ci-image
  image:
    name: gcr.io/kaniko-project/executor:v1.14.0-debug
    entrypoint: [""]
  script:
    - /kaniko/executor ...."
  rules:
    - if: '$CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE == "merge_request_event"'
      changes:
        - docker/Dockerfile
        - requirements.dev.txt
        - requirements.txt

.python_job:
  image: ....
  interruptible: true
  rules:
    - if: '$CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE == "merge_request_event"'
    - if: '$CI_COMMIT_BRANCH == "dev"'
    - if: '$CI_COMMIT_TAG'

lint:
  stage: lint
  extends: .python_job
  script:
    - make lint

test:
  stage: test
  script:
    - make coverage

bump_version:
  stage: bump_version
  image: bump2version
  script:
    - git remote set-url ...
    - bump2version $VERSION_PART --current-version $(grep -oP '__VERSION__ = "K[0-9.]+(?=")' app/meta.py) app/meta.py
    - git push origin HEAD:master --tags
  artifacts:
    paths:
      - app/meta.py
  rules:
    - if: $CI_COMMIT_MESSAGE =~ /^Bump version:/
      when: never
    - if: $CI_COMMIT_BRANCH == "master"

build:
  stage: build
  image:
    name: gcr.io/kaniko-project/executor:v1.14.0-debug
    entrypoint: [""]
  before_script:
    - ....
  script:
    - /kaniko/executor ..."
  rules:
    - if: '$CI_COMMIT_BRANCH == "dev"'
    - if: '$CI_COMMIT_TAG'

build-prod:
  stage: build
  image:
    name: gcr.io/kaniko-project/executor:v1.14.0-debug
    entrypoint: [""]
  before_script:
    - ....
  script:
    - |
      new_version=$(grep -o '__VERSION__ = "[0-9.]+"' app/meta.py | sed 's/__VERSION__ = "//;s/"//')
      /kaniko/executor ...."
  dependencies:
    - bump_version
  artifacts:
    paths:
      - app/meta.py
  rules:
    - if: '$CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE == "push" && $CI_COMMIT_BRANCH == "master"'
    - if: '$CI_COMMIT_TAG'

deploy-staging:
  stage: deploy
  environment:
    name: staging
    url: 
  image:
    name: bitnami/kubectl:latest
    entrypoint: ['']
  script:
    - kubectl ....
  rules:
    - if: $CI_COMMIT_BRANCH == "dev"
    - if: $CI_COMMIT_TAG