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Configuration Engineers, customers and 3rd parties – everybody who contributes to the Bitbucket repositories. Please make sure that you communicate this to everybody involved.

What is .gitlab-ci.yml?

It is script that describes which CI (=Continuous Integration) jobs should be run. They should be designed in a way that they can merged into any branch.

See https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/

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