Make it easier customize Auto DevOps with CI variables

Problem to solve

Auto DevOps is highly customizable through environment variables, but these are not very discoverable, a pain to type out, and validation usually only happens at a later stage, so users can enter bad data and only find out through their CI jobs.

Intended users

Anyone customizing CI predefined variables. So maybe:

Further details

Proposal

This is just one idea, but I think having

  • intellisense-like auto completion, with inline documentation about each variable
  • stricter validation of well known variables

anywhere these variables can be customized would be a huge improvement

Permissions and Security

Documentation

Testing

What does success look like, and how can we measure that?

What is the type of buyer?

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Edited by Hordur Freyr Yngvason