Gitlab can load its ci file from a remote web server. What I have done is generate the yaml programmatically and this gets returned from the web server. Less than ideal but it at least allows dynamic creation
Ya, as I understand, that's all this python ci lib is doing. I find it a little annoying that your first have to start a worker to create the pipeline file, and then again to run the pipelines steps
Artifacts, passing environment variables from the main pipeline to the child pipeline, expanding variable references in the child pipeline and getting unexpected results...
We're migrating our shared pipeline away from child pipelines. Maybe one day we'll do a write-up. :)
