As an advanced technique, Codefresh allows you to define a custom step using templating instead of fixed YAML. We support templates inside the`spec:` block of a plugin definition by taking advantage of the[Gomplate](https://github.com/hairyhenderson/gomplate) library that offers additional templating functions on top of vanilla[Go templates](https://golang.org/pkg/text/template/).

As a simple example lets say we want to create a single step that checks out any number of git repositories. Of course you could just copy-paste the git clone step multiple times in a single pipeline. To make things easier we will create a single step that takes an array of git repositories and checks them out on its own:

{% highlight yaml %}