How can I activate debug logs with "to be continuous"?

Question

I'm using to be continuous templates in my GitLab projects, but sometimes job fail and I lack debug information to troubleshoot the problem.

How can I activate debug logs in to be continuous pipeline jobs ?

For instance by enabling verbosity in every used tool (Maven, curl, kubectl, ...).

Answer 1

Most of to be continuous templates enable debug logs when $TRACE is set.

So you may simply manually run your pipeline, and set TRACE=1 interactively (any non-empty value is okay).

/!\ this is different (and complementary) to GitLab's CI_DEBUG_TRACE variable.