Well this started as "inline my bash files into yaml" and now it is becoming "a...
Well this started as "inline my bash files into yaml" and now it is becoming "a suite of tools to support this workflow"
Centralizing your #gitlab templates in a single repo create so an ugly, unpleasant workflow.
Next problem to solve: cloning remote scripts to a local repo so you can run them locally in the correct context.
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Also, long after I'd started this side project I discovered gitlab-ci-local
This let's you pretty faithfully execute a docker-base #gitlab pipeline locally.
For me, the immediate problem was needing to run docker on the laptop.
Still, it is a good alternative workflow, better than the default.