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Update CI schema to support `!reference`"

Frédéric Caplette requested to merge 348666-frontend-the-schema-for-gitlab-ci-yml-is-missing-support-for-reference into master

What does this MR do and why?

Adds support for the custom yaml keyword !reference for variables, script and rules.

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How to set up and validate locally

  1. Setup your yaml file to use !reference 
.gen:
  script: echo I am from gen

.vars:
  variables: 
    URL: "http://my-url.internal"
    IMPORTANT_VAR: "the details"

.cond:
  script: echo hello
  rules:
    - if: $CI_MERGE_REQUEST_SOURCE_BRANCH_NAME =~ /^feature/
      when: manual
      allow_failure: true

build:
  stage: "build"
  script: !reference [.gen, script]

test:
  stage: "test"
  variables: !reference [.vars, variables]
  script: echo $IMPORTANT_VAR
  rules: !reference [.cond, rules]
  1. Make sure you don't see any linting error

MR acceptance checklist

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relates to #348666 (closed)

Edited by Frédéric Caplette

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