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Agreed. I worked with Gitlab CI on the daily from 2021 till 2024 and I started curating a diary of bugs and surprising behavior I encountered in Gitlab.

No matter what I did, every time I touched our CI pipeline code I could be sure to run into yet another Gitlab bug.

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This is also my experience with GitLab CI.

It’s great if you have relatively simple CI. If you have anything slightly more complicated (like multiple child pipelines for a monorepo) you’re going to have a rough time.

Every time I thought I understood GitLab CI, it would fail/behave in non-obvious ways.

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