Includable Configs (ala gitlab ci)

[benyanke]

Clear and concise description of the problem

As someone who has a number of small repos that all require similar CI config, I find gitlab's CI includes very useful.

This allows you to reference yaml documents in another repo and then they are included, and YAML merged, if multiples. This allows more composable pipelines, with more flexibility than the Woodpecker plugins (which are excellent, for some workflows).

gitlab include docs
https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/includes.html

To use my own gitlab repos as an example:

I have a repo at gitlab.com/benyanke/common-ci-configs containing a number of composable CI bits that I use in various projects. One builds and pushes a docker container, one builds a hugo site, one publishes a hugo site to Netlify (a hosting provider), one publishes a hugo site to another provider, one lints, tests, and builds Golang projects, etc. On any given project, instead of needing to redefine all the required logic for a docker or go project, I simply include the go or docker include.

Suggested solution

Gitlab CI-like include functionality.

Alternative

No response

Additional context

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Validations

• Read the Contributing Guidelines.
• Read the docs.
• Check that there isn't already an issue that request the same feature to avoid creating a duplicate.

[qwerty287]

Is that a duplicate of #1089?

[benyanke]

Quite right, it is. I did some digging, but that one didn't come up for me. I'll add my bits to that thread close this issue out.