[iamjackg]

Oh, that's really cool. I was trying to solve this from a different perspective a while ago: I wanted to add some pre-processing that would take a "normal" shell script and render it to the `script` part of the corresponding job at build time, the advantage being that you still have everything self-contained in the gitlab-ci job.

I stopped working on it because dealing with shell shenanigans in the GitLab CI runner environment is such a miserable experience that we're in the process of moving all our jobs to python scripts.

[Dries007]

Yea, Pythonifying the scripts is also generally my preferences the moment they become somewhat complex. But even then it's nice that you can be reasonably sure you're not forgetting quotes around variables or using bash constructs where you only have sh.