Less of an issue or more or a feature/question perhaps ... It would nice to support global variables in the CI builds; classic use-case being deployment keys / docker registry credentials. Rohith ### Problem to solve Without support for global variables users must manually enter the same credentials repeatedly for dozens of projects when migrating to GitLab for details like: * docker private registry credentials * kubernetes credentials) * deployment keys ### Intended users * Development Team Lead * Software Developer * DevOps Engineer ### Proposal Implement support for global (instance-level) variables for CI builds by: - Re-use the refactor/re-design of CI variables in project/group settings - Place under CI/CD section in the admin settings Further design discussion is done in the merge request https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/33510 ### Links / references ### Availability & Testing #### Questions @thaoyeager @mbobin * Will there be any UI implementation on this feature? * How will user provide and/or obtain these variables? * Via the API for now? #### Test areas * Unit test changes * Feature requires new unit tests * FE (waiting on response to questions above) * API * Integration test changes * Feature requires integration test: FE <- API (depends on response to questions above) * End-to-end test change * No end-to-end testing required * package-and-qa required