actionlint
action-tmate
| actionlint | action-tmate | |
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| 5 | 13 | |
| 2,361 | 2,660 | |
| - | - | |
| 9.5 | 5.5 | |
| 9 days ago | 21 days ago | |
| Go | JavaScript | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
actionlint
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GitHub Actions could be so much better
Yep, actionlint is great! I've used it successfully both to lint my own workflows, and to lint third-party workflows for (basic) security issues.
Unfortunately, it can't lint actions themselves, only workflows that call actions[1]. This is a substantial deficiency, especially for users (like me) who write and maintain a decent number of actions.
[1]: https://github.com/rhysd/actionlint/issues/46
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What are the not-so-obvious tools that you don't want to miss?
I recently discovered actionlint and immediately told everyone that would listen about it. And now you are too. Static analysis for github actions, it's been pretty useful.
- Linter for GHA syntax?
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GitHub Actions Pitfalls
The first pitfall can be statically detected with actionlint
https://github.com/rhysd/actionlint
$ actionlint oops.yaml
action-tmate
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How to debug GitHub actions. Real-world example
The go-to method of debugging GitHub Actions is tmate. With tmate we can connect to our running Action terminal and see what is going on there by executing some simple commands!
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GitHub Actions Are a Problem
In addition to the suggestions others have made for locally testing workflows, there are also reverse shell actions[0] that can be used for troubleshooting CI failures on the GH runners themselves.
[0] https://github.com/mxschmitt/action-tmate
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GitHub Actions could be so much better
Been through that git commit; git push; repeat cycle too much as well until i discovered https://github.com/mxschmitt/action-tmate which gives a shell in between steps, which does not help with all problems but sure it's makes it less painful at times.
- How do you debug CI/CD pipelines? Breakpoints?
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How easy is it to troubleshoot GHA workflows?
In addition to everything here, I also will set up https://github.com/mxschmitt/action-tmate when Iām debugging. It helps tremendously since you can temporarily access the server.
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Act: Run your GitHub Actions locally
Unfortunately act is only capable of running very simple workflows. I've found this action to be more useful against the endless PR stream: https://github.com/mxschmitt/action-tmate
You drop it in your workflow and get an SSH shell into the worker, figure things out iteratively, then push when it's working.
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CI/CD using GitHub Actions for Rails and Docker
Solution: Tip o' the hat to Daniela Baron here, there's a real life saver of tool call tmate.
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Hosting VMs on GitHub Actions?
Here's a recent case where users of tmate - which lets you SSH into an actions worker - reported problems: https://github.com/mxschmitt/action-tmate/issues/104
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Github actions error while pushing code to package registry
see: https://github.com/mxschmitt/action-tmate
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Work with GitHub Actions in Your Terminal with GitHub CLI
Thought I'd get their docs updated - https://github.com/mxschmitt/action-tmate#manually-triggered...
What are some alternatives?
changed-files - :octocat: Github action to retrieve all (added, copied, modified, deleted, renamed, type changed, unmerged, unknown) files and directories.
reverse-rdp-windows-github-actions - Reverse Remote Desktop into Windows on GitHub Actions for Debugging and/or Job Introspection [GET https://api.github.com/repos/nelsonjchen/reverse-rdp-windows-github-actions: 403 - Repository access blocked]
combine-prs-workflow - Combine/group together PRs (for example from Dependabot and similar services)
act - Run your GitHub Actions locally š
gh-valet - Valet helps facilitate the migration of Azure DevOps, CircleCI, GitLab CI, Jenkins, and Travis CI pipelines to GitHub Actions.
floatly - An extension that adds a floating button for browser quick actions
travis-yml - Travis CI build config processing
mongodb-github-action - Use MongoDB in GitHub Actions
paths-filter - Conditionally run actions based on files modified by PR, feature branch or pushed commits
github-activity-readme - Updates README with the recent GitHub activity of a user
just - š¤ Just a command runner
ssh-agent - GitHub Action to setup `ssh-agent` with a private key