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Docs: Improve the why and how for the include keyword for CI/CD

Michael Friedrich requested to merge docs/ci-improve-include into master

What does this MR do?

For the Contribute Challenge 2020 I want to help improve the documentation regarding the CI keywords.

Today I was preparing my GitLab meetup demo, and struggled from creating a symlink for the .gitlab-ci.yml file. I've then found an issue comment suggesting to use include.

I had opened the docs and I needed to read the entire section with all different methods in order to understand how include works and how I might use that for symlinks.

This MR does the following:

  • Add the why in the introduction, structured CI config and avoiding clutter is important
  • Moves the methods from a list into a table and adding a short description that you immediately know which one you are looking at. Local file, makes sense - remote file, maybe not. Template - ah, that's just the GitLab templates known from the editor. No need to read further.
  • Changes the structure a bit moving the important overview on the top
  • Moves the templates to the last one, local, file and remote are equally the same, templates is different.

Related issues

#17090 (comment 214945841)

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