CI/CD Catalog goes GA: No more building pipelines from scratch

This post announces the general availability of the CI/CD Catalog, which allows users to discover, reuse, and contribute CI/CD components. It details the concepts of components (reusable building blocks) and inputs (dynamic parameters for components). It explains how to publish components to the catalog and how to use them in pipeline configurations, including referencing components by commit SHA, branch, tag, or semantic version shorthand. The post also differentiates between public and private components and outlines the differences in catalog availability and functionality between GitLab.com and self-managed instances. Future plans include CI Steps as a first-class catalog object and enhanced security/governance for organizational catalogs.