I used to run gitlab-runner locally to debug the CI pipeline but my team now uses a lot of gitlab features to make the pipelines more DRY and this means CI code

I used to run gitlab-runner locally to debug the CI pipeline but my team now uses a lot of gitlab features to make the pipelines more DRY and this means CI code is scattered over projects. The easiest way I found to debug it, is to put set -x into the code to print the command with substituted variables.