Cloud Native CI/CD with GitLab

Overriding Extended Configurations

In more advanced use cases, extended configurations can be overridden. For example, we want to have a test3 job that uses the same configuration as test1 but runs different scripts in the before_script section. Here is how we can do it:

cat <$HOME/todo/app/.gitlab-ci.yml
stages:
  - test

include:
  - local: '.includes/base_test.yml'

test1:
  extends: .base_test
  script:
    - echo "Running tests for test1..."

test2:
  extends: .base_test
  script:
    - echo "Running tests for test2..."

test3: