# Pipeline template array variable
**URL:** https://drone.discourse.group/t/pipeline-template-array-variable/11602
**Category:** Drone Support
**Created:** [February 2, 2022, 10:15am UTC](https://drone.discourse.group/t/pipeline-template-array-variable/11602 "2022-02-02T10:15:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@beniamin](https://drone.discourse.group/u/beniamin)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2022, 10:15am UTC](https://drone.discourse.group/t/pipeline-template-array-variable/11602/1 "2022-02-02T10:15:13Z")
We have many microservices written with PHP/Symfony. The pipeline for most of them looks like:
1. build the image
2. prepare the image for testing(install phpunit, etc)
3…7. Run some tests in parallel(steps may differ between microservice)
3. push the image to registry
I want to know if there is any possibility to create steps from 3-7 dinamically from a list of `{name, command}` using pipeline templates?
I am thinking at something like:
```auto
kind: template
load: plugin.yaml
data:
name: name
image: image
testSteps:
- name: unit
commmand: "phpunit --filter Unit"
- name: security
command: "bin/console symfony:security-check"
...
```
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### Author:  [@Eoin\_Mcafee](https://drone.discourse.group/u/Eoin_Mcafee)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2022, 10:31am UTC](https://drone.discourse.group/t/pipeline-template-array-variable/11602/2 "2022-02-03T10:31:26Z")
Hey @beniamin
At the minute there’s no support for the above.
Cheers,
Eoin
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### Author:  [@drone](https://drone.discourse.group/u/drone)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2022, 2:43pm UTC](https://drone.discourse.group/t/pipeline-template-array-variable/11602/3 "2022-02-03T14:43:34Z")
@Eoin_Mcafee looping through arrays is supported by the Go template engine. Would the below template work with the sample that beniamin provided?
```auto
kind: pipeline
type: docker
name: default
steps:
{{range .input.testSteps}}
- name: {{.name}}
image: php
commands:
- {{.command}}
{{end}}
- name: publish
image: plugins/docker
settings:
repo: {{ .input.image }}
```
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### Author:  [@beniamin](https://drone.discourse.group/u/beniamin)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2022, 6:45pm UTC](https://drone.discourse.group/t/pipeline-template-array-variable/11602/4 "2022-02-04T18:45:06Z")
@bradrydzewski your example seems to work.
Is there any way to “print” the compiled(final) pipeline?
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### Author:  [@drone](https://drone.discourse.group/u/drone)
#### Post date: [February 4, 2022, 10:15pm UTC](https://drone.discourse.group/t/pipeline-template-array-variable/11602/5 "2022-02-04T22:15:43Z")
@beniamin this feature does not currently exist. We brainstormed adding a CLI command and API endpoint to generate yaml files from templates, for testing purposes. This is definitely something we are interested in, but not something we are actively working on.