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I've been enjoying GitLab at my last three employers now, with the CI integration being the most liberating feature compared to the traditional CI providers. Especially the Docker CI runner gives you a great integration test environment, and I'm impatiently waiting for this MR [0] that will allow dependant containers to also talk to each other. It's the last missing piece for my ideal CI setup.

[0] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/merge_requests/1...

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GitLab product manager for Verify (CI) here.

Thanks for bringing this up I hadn't seen your contribution! I think this is a great idea. I know the technical team has been overwhelmed with community contributions as of late - which is a good problem to have but one that we're still solving. I'm going to try and shepherd this one along myself. If you want you can reach out to me on Twitter @olearycrew or my email is boleary [at] gitlab.

Great to hear you're looking into it! I do have to clarify that I'm not the owner of the MR though, not meaning to take credit of @krotscheck's work.

Ah sorry, my bad - I may have misread as well. Either way thanks for bringing it to my attention as I think this is a change that could make some other iterations "possible."

That thread looks rough. Kudos to the MR author for sticking it out.

@boleary-gl have you all considered having someone dedicate time each day / week to prioritizing community issues?

Ehn, it's no biggie. Tagir did most of the code (and owns the commits), I'm just a hominid rebase bot.

Edit: Saw that you are not the author of the merge request. Then thank you for highlighting it.

Oh jolly good! This exact feature was something I've thought about as useful for microservice stacks where you need interconnected background services for integration testing. Very nice of you to contribute this feature, thanks! Hopefully this will be merged at some point.

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