Includes and Templates

Part of the GitLab CI course

By your third project, the .gitlab-ci.yml files start to rhyme. The same lint job. The same test setup with the same cache key. The same docker-in-docker incantation, copied from the last repository because you knew it worked there. Copy and paste is genuinely the right call the first two times.

GitLab gives you two tools for this, doing two different jobs. include: pulls in whole files from somewhere else. extends: lets one job inherit from another. Most real pipelines use both. ...