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Post-step operations are a set of optional predefined processes that can be configured on any step. These operations will be executed once the step has completed. The post-step operations allow you to annotate your builds, images and pipelines with extra metadata.

Post-step operations are a set of optional predefined processes that can be configured on any step. These operations will be executed once the step has completed. The post-step operations allow you to annotate your builds, images and pipelines with extra metadata or run other steps.

-[Image Metadata]({{site.baseurl}}/docs/docker-registries/metadata-annotations/)

-[Custom Annotations]({{site.baseurl}}/docs/codefresh-yaml/annotations/)

-[Hooks]({{site.baseurl}}/docs/codefresh-yaml/hooks/)

Post operations are only for metadata. If you want to run a step when another step fails or succeeds you need to use[conditional execution of steps]({{site.baseurl}}/docs/codefresh-yaml/conditional-execution-of-steps/) and the`fail_fast` property.

Post operations are only for metadata. If you want to run a step when another step fails or succeeds you need to use[conditional execution of steps]({{site.baseurl}}/docs/codefresh-yaml/conditional-execution-of-steps/) and the`fail_fast` property or[step hooks]({{site.baseurl}}/docs/codefresh-yaml/hooks/)

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In this example the step`print_error_message` will only run if step`run_tests` has failed.

See also[advanced workflows]({{site.baseurl}}/docs/codefresh-yaml/advanced-workflows/#single-step-dependencies).

See also[advanced workflows]({{site.baseurl}}/docs/codefresh-yaml/advanced-workflows/#single-step-dependencies) and[Pipeline/Step hooks]({{site.baseurl}}/docs/codefresh-yaml/hooks/).