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+---
+stages:
+  - unit-tests
+  - integration
+  - release
+  - deploy
+
+variables:
+  FAILFASTCI_NAMESPACE: 'quay'
+  IMAGE: quay.io/quay/quay
+  PIP_CACHE_DIR: /pip-cache
+  PIP: /venv/bin/pip
+  PYTEST: /venv/bin/py.test
+  TEST: "true"
+  PYTHONPATH: "."
+
+cache:
+  paths:
+    - cache
+    - /pip-cache
+    - /apt-cache
+  key: "$CI_PROJECT_ID"
+
+
+.job: &job
+  before_script:
+    - mkdir -p /apt-cache
+    - apt-get update
+    - apt-get install -o dir::cache::archives="/apt-cache" -y python-dev g++ libjpeg62-dev libevent-dev libldap2-dev  libsasl2-dev libpq-dev libffi-dev libgpgme11-dev nodejs jpegoptim optipng w3m
+    - pip install -r requirements.txt
+    - pip install -r requirements-tests.txt
+  script:
+    - echo test
+  tags:
+    - kubernetes
+  image: quay.io/quay/quay:build
+
+
+unit-tests:
+  <<: *job
+  stage: unit-tests
+  script:
+    - py.test --timeout=7200 --verbose --show-count ./ --color=no
+
+
+registry-tests:
+  <<: *job
+  stage: unit-tests
+  script:
+    - py.test --timeout=7200 --verbose --show-count ./test/registry_tests.py --color=no
+
+
+karma-tests:
+  <<: *job
+  stage: unit-tests
+  script:
+    - yarn install --ignore-engines
+    - yarn test
+
+code-styles:
+  <<: *job
+  stage: unit-tests
+  script:
+    - echo "yapf"
+    - echo "pycodestyle"
+    - echo "pylint"
+
+
+postgres:
+  <<: *job
+  variables:
+    TEST_DATABASE_URI: 'postgresql://quay:quay@localhost/quay'
+    SKIP_DB_SCHEMA: 'true'
+    POSTGRES_PASSWORD: quay
+    POSTGRES_USER: quay
+  stage: integration
+  services:
+    - postgres:9.6
+  script:
+    - alembic upgrade head
+    - py.test --timeout=7200 --verbose --show-count ./ --color=no --ignore=endpoints/appr/test/
+
+
+
+mysql:
+  <<: *job
+  variables:
+    TEST_DATABASE_URI: mysql+pymysql://quay:quay@localhost/quay
+    SKIP_DB_SCHEMA: 'true'
+    MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: quay
+    MYSQL_DATABASE: quay
+    MYSQL_USER: quay
+    MYSQL_PASSWORD: quay
+  stage: integration
+  services:
+    - mysql
+  script:
+    - alembic upgrade head
+    - py.test --timeout=7200 --verbose --show-count ./ --color=no --ignore=endpoints/appr/test/
+
+
+# # TODO (@ant31)
+# .docker: &docker
+#   variables:
+#     DOCKER_HOST: tcp://localhost:2375
+#   image: docker:git
+#   before_script:
+#     - docker login -u $DOCKER_USER -p $DOCKER_PASS quay.io
+#   services:
+#      - docker:dind
+#   tags:
+#     - kubernetes
+
+# docker-push:
+#   <<: *docker
+#   stage: release
+#   script:
+#     - echo "push container to the quay prod repo"
+#     - docker build --no-cache -t quay.io/quay/quay-branches:$CI_BUILD_REF_NAME .
+#     - docker push quay.io/quay/quay-branches:$CI_BUILD_REF_NAME
+
+# helm-push:
+#   <<: *docker
+#   stage: release
+#   script:
+#     - echo "build chart"
+
+# deploy-staging:
+#   when: manual
+#   stage: deploy
+#   script:
+#     - echo "deploy-staging"