by Thomas Chinery
on April 19, 2024
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The gitlab-ci.yaml file is present in almost every Gitlab project I work on.
Often a pipeline is generic to specific type of project and in this scenario it would be wise to reference a singular gitlab-ci.yaml file.
Most Engineers I’ve worked with copy and paste the gitlab-ci.yaml file across projects which of course is error prone and drives inconsistencies when working with many projects.
Gitlab allows you to reference a gitlab-ci.yaml from a different project - I often create a Pipeline Templates project for this. Not only that but you also reference specific versions meaning you can roll out and test versions on one project first without touching the rest.