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EdgeLord
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GitHub Actions Are a Problem
I actually really like GitHub actions, I read the article and while I get some of the concerns, others I don't understand. In any case the author's situation doesn't apply to me, and I wanted to share something I really liked about GHA.
So, I recently figured out a way to host a remote browser on them by using an Ngrok tunnel. It's really cool to see BrowserBox running from inside a GitHub action container. I literally couldn't believe it actually worked when I first figured it out!
I was so excited. It started as just this tech prototype in my mind (could this be possible? Probably not but I Feel like it could be). And to see it actually achieved so cool! :)
I thought this was so cool, and such a useful way for people to either just get started with BrowserBox trying it out, or even run a quick little VPN-like/proxy browser from another region, that I wrote an action that integrates with issues to make the process as easy as possible for people.
Basically you can just clone or fork the repo: https://github.com/BrowserBox/BrowserBox and then open an issue and pick the template that is like "Make VPN". The login link will get published in the repo. The link is not private (unless you make your fork or template private) and there's a bit of setup with your ngrok API key (free is OK) but the issue conversation automatically guides you through all that.
I thought this was so cool (free server time, actually working app), that I created another version that uses MS Edge under the hood instead of Chrome in the original, just to show how easy it is: https://github.com/EdgeLord/EdgeLord
Just a niggle is that the other services we normally have (secure doc viewer, audio, remote devtools) do not work as ngrok only maps 1 port. I could use an ngrok config file I think to fix that but somehow, easy as that is, I have not gotten around to it! Another niggle is I noticed the auto-tab opening used in the GHA demo seems a little funky lately, and you may need to manually reload or resize them to un-wonkify it. Probably a little regression!
Anyway! :)
garden
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Build pipelines always seem to take longer than doing the same locally
Hey there! Have you tried garden.io for caching? We also cache tests. Pretty much anything that's possible to cache. We're open source at https://github.com/garden-io/garden
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Streamlining CI/CD Pipelines with Code: A Developer's Guide
To add to what's already been said: If you think about it, CI pipelines are typically a complete description of how your system is built, tested, and deployed.
Which is pretty fantastic except for how walled off they are. You can't really re-use these descriptions for e.g. development, they're not vendor agnostic, and they only way to run them is by pushing your code.
Maybe it's a silly analogy but it's almost like being a web dev that doesn't have a browser and needs to send their code to a friend who can tell them if that font size looks good.
I think we're way over due for freeing these "blueprints" of our system from the confines of CI and making them portable and flexible. And containers are the technology that's enabling that.
Full disclaimer (as always): I work at Garden[0] where we're also solving that problem but taking a slightly different approach to Dagger (it's still a DAG). Garden config is declarative and the jobs (we call them actions) have a semantic meaning. You can e.g. have a Build action of type container or a Deploy action of type Helm and Garden will figure out what to do with it.
[0] https://github.com/garden-io/garden
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GitHub Actions Are a Problem
Yes, there's us over at https://github.com/garden-io/garden! We're big believers in pipelines that run anywhere. I even made a short little video that should give you the gist. [1]
Some of the short-list of differences: we use YAML for our configuration language, Dagger can use full-fat languages to define its pipelines. Our feature scope is broader: you can use us to vend IDP-like stacks to your developers if you're a Platform Team; we make development with remote Kubernetes clusters very easy, including all the remote image builds; and we have a number of integrations so you can bring your IaC tool of choice (Pulumi, Terraform) into your pipeline and set up service -> infra dependencies.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFnan6s2cDg
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The Icelandic Saga Database
Me too. In fact Garden (dev tooling for the Kubernetes)[0] is a Berlin start-up with three Icelandic founders.
And if I'm not mistaken, two of us worked briefly with @halldorel (above commenter) at an earlier Icelandic start-up. It's a small world (if you're Icelandic).
[0] https://garden.io
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Local development set up for microservices with Kubernetes - Skaffold
There are dedicated tools just for that. Apart from skaffold check also tilt.dev, garden.io, devspace.sh, okteto.com
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is anyone using garden.io for Kubernetes development?
Would appreciate any insights on garden.io. Thanks.
- Garden – The DevOps automation tool for K8s
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Best way to run k8s apps locally
Telepresence, tilt, garden.io, okteto, skaffold etc.
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Local Development with hot reloading, what does your team do?
- https://garden.io/
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Digital nomad x Cyclist in the Balkans on my way to Japan (more info in the comments)
haha, do my pictures give off a strong not-web-dev vibe? Either way your right, I'm focusing on devxp and automation for kubernetes. Because my work is open source you can see it here https://github.com/garden-io/garden (btw we're also hiring another open core dev like me)
What are some alternatives?
trustacks
okteto - Develop your applications directly in your Kubernetes Cluster
gale - GitHub Action Local Executor
skaffold - Easy and Repeatable Kubernetes Development
telepresence - Local development against a remote Kubernetes or OpenShift cluster
wsl-vpnkit - Provides network connectivity to WSL 2 when blocked by VPN
tilt-extensions - Extensions for Tilt
UTM - Virtual machines for iOS and macOS
tilt - Define your dev environment as code. For microservice apps on Kubernetes.
waypoint - A tool to build, deploy, and release any application on any platform.
WSL - Issues found on WSL
bocker - Docker implemented in around 100 lines of bash