I've no idea why gitlab needs its on own .gitlab-ci.yml when I have a docker compose file. On side projects, I would like to run CI locally on my PC but there seems to be no solution. What do you suggest?
CI needs a specific file because you have to define a pipeline and execution order not only services. I'd recommend you Drone CI http://try.drone.io/ If you install the CLI you can run the pipeline locally as it would run in the server.
