[eysi]

This is such a great point!

Your pipelines should mostly be CI provider agnostic and runnable from anywhere, including your laptop during development.

If you ever need to change a CI provider, you just move your pipelines.

I'm definitely biased, I'm working at Garden[0] which allows you to do just that but it's mostly applicable for teams using Kubernetes. I paused at your comment because Garden has sometimes been called "a makefile for the cloud".

Whatever tooling you use, having portable pipelines that you can iterate on and debug from your laptop is the only sane approach imo.

[0] https://docs.garden.io/overview/use-cases#faster-simpler-and...