Draft: CI Pipelines: allow default values for variables

What does this MR do and why?

Allow bash-style fallback in CI variables, e.g.

variables:
  TAG_OR_MAIN_BRANCH: "${CI_COMMIT_TAG:-main}"

This would expand to a git tag (if present) or to "main".

See &7437

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