Breakpoints for live debugging of CI/CD pipeline

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Problem to solve

Although web terminal is already available for CI/CD debugging, there is currently no stop/resume breakpoint feature for live debugging of CI/CD pipelines. This would make it a lot easier to debug a pipeline.

Intended users

• Delaney (Development Team Lead)
• Sasha (Software Developer)
• Presley (Product Designer)
• Devon (DevOps Engineer)
• Sidney (Systems Administrator)

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Further details

• CodeFresh recently introduced this feature: https://codefresh.io/codefresh-news/pipeline-debugging/

Proposal

Add ability to insert breakpoints in a pipeline that will pause at the breakpoint to allow inspection and confirmation that pipeline is working correctly before resuming the pipeline running. You could imagine:

• Set a breakpoint in a job
• When the pipeline and the job executes, a web terminal is automatically opened
• The user is automatically connected to the terminal and can start debugging if needed

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