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[–] leMe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

lots of people already pointed out tools to (kind of) dry run locally. they are great to figure out cryptic error messages.

however, if you have issues with the complexity of the whole pipeline, it is usually easier to just execute the whole pipeline. for that we have the branch prefix cicd/ and treat these exactly as main/master and develop (except the very last deployment step). that way we can see where a whole pipeline will go. and when it is finally doing what it should, we can squash it before merge -> have a nice history.