Include File Validation: Errors in Locally Included Templates

Problem/Feature Description

A platform team has split a large .gitlab-ci.yml into modular include files. The main file passes the GitLab CI Lint tool with no issues, but pipelines are failing at queue time with cryptic error messages. A senior engineer suspects the problem is in the included templates, which were never validated independently.

Validate both the main file and the included template below. Identify all errors in any file, explain why entry-point-only validation does not surface these issues, and produce corrected versions of all files.

Output Specification

Produce:

• A corrected .gitlab-ci.yml (main file)
• A corrected templates/jobs.gitlab-ci.yml
• An include-validation-report.md that: (1) lists all errors found with the file each error is in, and (2) includes a section explaining why validating only the main file is insufficient

Input Files

The following files are provided as input.

=============== FILE: inputs/.gitlab-ci.yml =============== include:

• local: 'templates/jobs.gitlab-ci.yml'

stages:

• build
• test
• deploy

variables: REGISTRY: registry.gitlab.example.com APP_NAME: myapp

=============== FILE: inputs/templates/jobs.gitlab-ci.yml =============== build_image: stage: build image: docker:24.0 services: - docker:24.0-dind script: - docker build -t $REGISTRY/$APP_NAME:$CI_COMMIT_SHA . - docker push $REGISTRY/$APP_NAME:$CI_COMMIT_SHA rules: - if: '$CI_COMMIT_BRANCH == "main"'

run_tests: stage: testing image: python:3.11-slim script: - pip install -r requirements.txt - pytest tests/ artifacts: reports: junit: test-results.xml

deploy_app: stage: deploy image: bitnami/kubectl:latest needs: - run_tests - build_image script: - kubectl apply -f k8s/ rules: - if: '$CI_COMMIT_BRANCH == "main"'