function(vars={})
  {
    dockerBuild: {
      // base job to manage containers (build / push)
      variables: {
        DOCKER_DRIVER: "overlay2",
        DOCKER_HOST: "tcp://docker-host.gitlab-runner.svc.cluster.local:2375"
      },

      image: "docker:git",
      before_script: [
        "docker login -u $DOCKER_USER -p $DOCKER_PASS quay.io",
      ],

      tags: [
        "kubernetes",
      ],
    },

    QuayTest: {
      // base job to test the container
      image: vars.images.quayci.name,
      variables: {
        TEST: "true",
        PYTHONPATH: ".",
        QUAYDIR: "/quay-registry",
        GIT_STRATEGY: "none",
      },
      before_script: [
        "cd $QUAYDIR",
        "source $QUAYDIR/venv/bin/activate",
      ],
      tags: [
        "kubernetes",
      ],
    },

    QuayDeploy: {
      local this = self,
      local _vars = self.localvars,
      localvars:: {
                   appversion: "1.0.0-%s" % self.image.tag,
                   apprepo: "quay.io/quay/%s" % self.appname,
                   appname: "quay-ci-app",
                   domain: "quay-%s.k8s.devtable.com" % self.image.tag,
                   namespace: "ci-quay-%s" % self.image.tag,
                   image: vars.images.quayci,
                   channels: [],
                   pushargs: ["-f"],

                   buildParams(extra_params={}):: (
                     local params = {image: _vars.image.name,
                                     tag: _vars.image.tag,
                                     domain: "$QUAY_DOMAIN"} + extra_params;
                     [
                     "echo -n %s > VERSION" % _vars.appversion,
                     'echo %s > params.json' % std.escapeStringJson(params),
                     "cat params.json"
                     ]),

                    pushApp(repo="quay.io/quay", extra_args=['-f'], channels=[]):: (
                      ["appr push %s %s" % [repo, std.join(" ", extra_args)]] +
                      ["appr push %s -c %s" % [repo, channel] for channel in channels]
                    ),
                   },

      variables: {K8S_NAMESPACE: _vars.namespace,
                  QUAY_DOMAIN: _vars.domain},
      image: "quay.io/appr/appr:kubectl",
      environment: {
        name: "review/%s" % _vars.image.tag,
        url: "https://%s" % _vars.domain,
      },
      tags: [
        "kubernetes",
      ],

      before_script: [
       "appr login -u $DOCKER_USER -p $DOCKER_PASS quay.io",
       "cd deploy/%s" % _vars.appname,
       ] + _vars.buildParams(),

      script:
       _vars.pushApp(_vars.apprepo, _vars.pushargs, _vars.channels) +
       [
       "appr deploy %s@%s --namespace %s -x docker_user=$DOCKER_USER -x docker_pass=$DOCKER_PASS" % [
        _vars.apprepo,
        _vars.appversion,
        _vars.namespace],
       "kubectl get ingresses -n %s -o wide" % _vars.namespace,
      ],
    },

    QuayDeployStop: self.QuayDeploy {
      variables+: {GIT_STRATEGY: "none"},
      environment+: {
        action: "stop"
      },
      before_script: [],
      script: [],
   },

    EndToEndTest: self.QuayTest {
      initDb:: true,
      services: [
      {name: "postgres:9.6"},
      {name: vars.images.quayci.name, alias: 'quay'}
      ] + if self.initDb == true then [
      {name: vars.images.quayci.name,
       alias: 'db-init',
       command: ["/bin/sh",
                 "-c",
                "sleep 30" +
                "&& /quay-registry/venv/bin/python initdb.py" +
                "&& sleep 3600",]},
      ] else [],
      before_script: if self.image == vars.images.quayci.name
                     then super.before_script
                     else [],
      script: ['sleep 150'],
      variables+: {
        APP_HOST: "localhost:80",
        POSTGRES_PASSWORD: "quay",
        POSTGRES_USER: "quay",
        SKIP_DB_SCHEMA: 'true',
        TEST_DATABASE_URI: self['DB_URI'],
        QUAY_OVERRIDE_CONFIG: '' + {"SERVER_HOSTNAME": "localhost:80"},
        DB_URI: 'postgresql://quay:quay@localhost/quay'
      },
    },

    dbTest(scheme, image, env):: self.QuayTest {
      variables+: {
        SKIP_DB_SCHEMA: 'true',
        TEST_DATABASE_URI: '%s://quay:quay@localhost/quay' % scheme,
      } + env,
      coverage: @"/^TOTAL.*\s+(\d+\%)\s*$/",
      services: [image],
      script: [
        "sleep 30",
        "alembic upgrade head",
        'PYTHONPATH="." TEST="true" py.test --timeout=7200 --verbose --show-count ./ --color=no --ignore=endpoints/appr/test/ -x',
      ],
    },
  }