Customizing-Components.md

+# Overview
+The re-usable pipeline components are customizable.   
+
+## Customize with Inputs
+The components provide override-able default values as inputs for `job`, `stage`, and `rules`.  Some components have `needs` as well. When including the component, you can override these inputs.  Example:
+
+_.gitlab-ci.yml_
+```
+include:
+  - component: $CI_SERVER_FQDN/accelerator/iac/release-workflow/ci-gradle@v1
+    - inputs:
+      -  rules: 
+        - when: manual 
+```
+
+## Customize with Job Merge
+Another way to customize is to redefine the job after include with additional configuration.  If multiple jobs of the same name are defined, then they are merged.