Make composable Auto DevOps elements easy to find and use - multiple selection
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Problem to solve
Auto DevOps contains many interesting elements, especially now that teams are able to use composable pieces (i.e., the template list in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/lib/gitlab/ci/templates/Auto-DevOps.gitlab-ci.yml). We can also use this same Auto DevOps composability for solutions to problems like &1804.
The problem with all of this, however, is that the discoverability of these to improve your CD pipeline is very poor. You have to know about this feature, and then you have to go read the template .gitlab-ci.yml and understand it, then you need to guess what all the different templates actually do and how to integrate them.
Instead, in the .gitlab-ci.yml editor, we should provide an easy to use way to:
- See the list of available templates that can be mixed in
- Add/remove them in an easy way
Intended users
This will help users get the most out of GitLab CD.
Further details
Proposal
Allow multiple selection of templates to the WebIDE when editing an existing .gitlab-ci.yml file.
The current flow:
If a user selects the .gitlab-ci.yml named file in the WebIDE
Allow choosing the multiple templates
each one should me marked with a
the templates should be fully copied in this scenario and the user will need to manually remove the duplicate/non desired sections from the combined .gitlab-ci.yml template