CI/CD include anchors and templating support
Summary
Gitlab CI pipeline inclusion is a great feature. But anchors and templating doesn't work if both are in different files, and it's certainely the most interesting feature.
The idea there is to produce various include with a catalog of steps which can be used as templates from child yml, normalizing builds across applications
Steps to reproduce
Create a inclusion file with the following content
.app_services:
services: &app_services
- postgres:latest
Create a .gitlab-ci.yml with the following step
include: "/myinclude.yml"
build:
services: *app_services
Example Project
here is a sample project with the cross anchor/template awaited feature
https://gitlab.com/nerzhul/ci-pipeline-include-failure/tree/master
What is the current bug behavior?
LINT fail with error
Unknown alias: app_services
What is the expected correct behavior?
The pipeline should run and create a build step using app_services from the include. It also should permit to include templates from child if include is defined after the child anchor