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In the introduction, pytest is mentioned as recently learned (as part of a training event, likely), but no link or reference is included on where students can learn if that is not the case yet.

This helps make obvious which CI/CD edition this repo is about.

Since we already have the hsf-training-cicd-github this also makes it consistent with the naming.

In chapter 3, about YAML, lists and dicts are only illustrated without an explanation of the syntax.

Students must understand for example:

• all members of a list are lines beginning at the same indentation level
• starting with a "-" (a dash)
• Space after the dash
• etc.

See #13

Only pointed out once

In Chapter 4 (YAML and CI), explain to the student that image: rikorose/gcc-cmake means a Docker image defined in the YAML config file.

Can we recommend something similar to act? Perhaps what is suggested here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49090675/how-can-i-test-gitlab-ci-yml
Wouter uses gitlab-ci-local, https://github.com/firecow/gitlab-ci-local

The GitHub Actions CI/CD tutorial introduces matrices as a way to replicate similar jobs since it doesn't have extends (and since anchors are not all that common for this): https://hsf-training.github.io/hsf-training-cicd-github/09-the-matrix/index.html.

Gitlab has support for matrices too, https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/#parallelmatrix (I use them frequently, even though it may not be needed here exactly). It could be useful to present it as an episode, maybe right after https://hsf-training.github.io/hsf-training-cicd/10-the-worlds-a-stage/index.html.