Is there a way to override the default GitLab CI AutoDevOps templates?

Question

I am running my GitLab CI pipelines in an offline environment with none of my repositories containing the pipeline YAML files. Due to the sheer number of repositories I enabled AutoDevOps to use a baseline image until I can define pipelines for each specific repository as necessary, however, the application dependencies and pipeline images cannot be downloaded. I have a means to resolve this, but it requires configuration in the .gitlab-ci.yml file meaning the default AutoDevOps templates cannot be used and I have to make changes in every single repository, defeating the point of enabling AutoDevOps in the first place.

Is there a way to override the default AutoDevOps templates with my own?

Answer 1

From the documentation :

Auto DevOps is completely customizable because the Auto DevOps template is just an implementation of a .gitlab-ci.yml file.

So AutoDevOps pipelines are only .gitlab-ci.yml files and you need to include them to overrides jobs and anything in this pipeline. You need to include a .gitlab-ci.yml file to override the default.

AutoDevOps is useful even if you include a ci file because it add a lot of jobs without writing them.