I'll add one more annoying part: testing the CI/CD script on gitlab. It doesn't exist, and it's hell.
Edit: perhaps it's skill issue too, but I'm annoyed they don't have a similar feature to jump to definitions as github does.
Edit: perhaps it's skill issue too, but I'm annoyed they don't have a similar feature to jump to definitions as github does.
It's so sad that we can't just run local validations on the CI/CD script through a local emulator. If they had a local emulator approach similar to what is provided by Firebase for their cloud products, that would be amazing.
Did you try the pipeline editor? It's at <project_url>/-/ci/editor
You can see how GitLab expands the code, validate it (syntax), validate it against a branch (i.e. what happens when I get a push on main), and visualize the full YAML spec of what you have in the editor.
I have that problem with GitHub at the moment because we're switching from self-hosted GL to GH due to company policies, and for me it's much less readable (but I also know I've been playing with it ~1 month so far instead of the 7+ years I spent on GitLab, so need to learn tools etc).