CI/CD Display existing/predefined/inherited environment variables

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Problem to solve

When working on the CI-pipeline of a project it is sometimes unclear what environment variables are defined. Especially if:

• the project is a child of multiple groups (that each could define variables)
• the user working on the CI-pipeline is not the owner of the group.

When the project-group-hierarchy is complex then it becomes a difficult task to verify or not accidentally override environment variables. Not even the WebIDE displays all existing environment variables.

Intended users

• DevOps Engineer or Software Developer creating/updating the CI pipelines (gitlab-ci.yml)
• Development Team Lead/Project/Group owners for auditing

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