[limonkufu]

We are using make targets to automate ci/cd, local dev and a lot of other things by adding a set of easy to extend, customise template makefiles as submodules.

The main advantage for us is it's same everywhere and it's agnostic to underlying technologies. (we are only supporting unix based environments and have guidelines to setup gnumake in macos). By using this way, we ensure that the general SDLC is same across different repositories and underlying tooling can change anytime without inducing a lot of refactoring

We are also using make targets to document themselves. How to use, what are other targets, variables you need to define etc. This makes it a powerful CLI app for us that can run and support many things.

For anyone interested: https://gitlab.com/ska-telescope/sdi/ska-cicd-makefile and the similar parsing method for self documenting makefiles: https://gitlab.com/ska-telescope/sdi/ska-cicd-makefile/-/blo.... We didn't know about magicmake that's linked here that does the similar thing