I have a Deploy to IBM Cloud button that deploys 3 git repos and works great except I have a maintenance problem. If I make an edit in one of the repos which impacts how it is built, I have to change the pipeline.yml which exists in another repo, namely in the same repo as my .bluemix\toolchain.yml. I would prefer to have my pipeline.yml files self-contained in the repo they actually pertain to. My toolchain.yml has 3 entries like:
services:
dashboard-build:
service_id: pipeline
parameters:
services:
- dashboard-repo
name: 'dashboard-{{toolchain.name}}'
configuration:
content:
$ref: dashboard.pipeline.yml
$refType: text
I tried an absolute path like:
ref: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/org/repo/master/.bluemix/dashboard.pipeline.yml but it errored out with
repository contains an invalid template. File not found
Can I change the pipeline's location to be in its own repository or does it have to be co-located with the toolchain.yml?
Yes, as you've guessed any files referenced with $ref or $text must be co-located in either the same repo or zip file. We might offer support for referencing and extending another template in the future but there is nothing concrete there yet.
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Also...
$text should be used in preference to $ref and $refType here.
The pipeline's "content" element expects raw text and historically that is why we added $refType: text. However, $ref as specified in JSON Reference explicitly ignores siblings so although we have support for $refType currently it would be better to just use $text going forward.
content:
$text: dashboard.pipeline.yml