default in GitLab CI pipelines

You can set global defaults for some keywords. Each default keyword is copied to every job that doesn’t already have it defined. If the job already has a keyword defined, that default is not used.

For example - the correct way to specify a default image is by using the default keyword:

default:
    image: python-latest

These keywords can have custom defaults:

after_script
artifacts
before_script
cache
hooks
id_tokens
image
interruptible
retry
services
tags
timeout

Another example using default which will be added to each stage:

default:
  artifacts:
    paths:
      - "$LOGFILE"