# Switch to Disable Pipelines

**URL:** <https://forum.buildkite.community/t/switch-to-disable-pipelines/1144>\
**Category:** Features Requests\
**Created:** [July 8, 2020, 11:41pm UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/switch-to-disable-pipelines/1144 "2020-07-08T23:41:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![jsm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.buildkite.community/jsm/32/428_2.png) [@jsm](https://forum.buildkite.community/u/jsm)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2020, 11:41pm UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/switch-to-disable-pipelines/1144/1 "2020-07-08T23:41:05Z")

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Hi!

I’d love to be easily able to disable pipelines.

What I imagine:

- In settings page, switch to disable pipelines
- Prevents new builds from starting
- Prevents non-started steps from starting
- Prevents clicking “confirm” on builds

Why?

We sometimes have to disable our terraform pipeline when there’s an outage and we made a manual change, to make sure that change doesn’t get wiped. Currently we have to manually put a failing step in the pipeline, cancel all running jobs, and cancel all pending confirmation jobs, to make sure no one does anything.

Making this easier & safer would be great.

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**Author:** ![Jason](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.buildkite.community/jason/32/742_2.png) [@Jason](https://forum.buildkite.community/u/Jason)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 1:20am UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/switch-to-disable-pipelines/1144/2 "2020-07-09T01:20:52Z")

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Great suggestion @jsm! I have passed this through to the team!

On a side note, I have seen code freeze style functionality added into pipelines using conditionals and environment vars. I created a [gist](https://gist.github.com/jayco/14131acc724211c375fba87251a3049f) to demonstrate.

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**Author:** ![juanitofatas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.buildkite.community/juanitofatas/32/957_2.png) [@juanitofatas](https://forum.buildkite.community/u/juanitofatas)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 3:13am UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/switch-to-disable-pipelines/1144/3 "2020-12-09T03:13:26Z")

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Hi @jsm!

Sorry for the delay 🙇🏻‍♂️‍♂ We have added the ability to [Archive Pipelines](https://buildkite.com/changelog/111-archive-pipelines).

Please give a go and let us know if you have any feedback 🙌🏻