Many teams opt to keep most of the logic of their process inside shell scripts or build tools (like Maven or Make). I'm not sure if there is any standard way of

Many teams opt to keep most of the logic of their process inside shell scripts or build tools (like Maven or Make). I'm not sure if there is any standard way of defining a Pipeline in the way I think you are asking that is tool agnostic. Building locally is a good one and thats something I am thinking about in the long term.