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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.
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GitHub Actions could be so much better
> with no persistent storage
There's https://github.com/actions/cache though?
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Optimizing GitHub Actions Performance: Enhance Workflows with Caching
Use Cache Actions: GitHub Actions provides cache actions that simplify caching implementation. The @actions/cache JavaScript library is a popular choice for managing caching in workflows. It offers flexible options for storing and retrieving cache artifacts based on keys, scopes, and paths.
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Speeding up GitHub Actions with npm cache
GitHub maintain a set of repos called actions. One of which is called cache.
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How I Sliced Deployment Times to a Fraction and Achieved Lightning-Fast Deployments with GitHub Actions
By utilizing the actions/cache action action, we implemented a strategy to store and retrieve dependencies, preventing redundant installations.
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Use GitHub Actions to Make Your GitHub Profile Dynamic
I do think it's good practice to enable caching, such that your script doesn't hit RubyGems / pip / npm / etc every time it runs.
That way at least the automation activity stays entirely within the GitHub / Azure network.
It looks like you can do that for Ruby by adding this:
https://github.com/actions/cache/blob/master/examples.md#rub...
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A guide to using act with GitHub Actions
β getting-started-with-act git:(master) act -j build WARN β You are using Apple M1 chip and you have not specified container architecture, you might encounter issues while running act. If so, try running it with '--container-architecture linux/amd64'. β [Node.js CI/build] π Start image=node:16-buster-slim [Node.js CI/build] π³ docker pull image=node:16-buster-slim platform= username= forcePull=false [Node.js CI/build] π³ docker create image=node:16-buster-slim platform= entrypoint=["tail" "-f" "/dev/null"] cmd=[] [Node.js CI/build] π³ docker run image=node:16-buster-slim platform= entrypoint=["tail" "-f" "/dev/null"] cmd=[] [Node.js CI/build] β git clone 'https://github.com/actions/setup-node' # ref=v3 [Node.js CI/build] β git clone 'https://github.com/actions/cache' # ref=v3 [Node.js CI/build] β git clone 'https://github.com/actions/upload-artifact' # ref=v3 [Node.js CI/build] β Run Main actions/checkout@v3 [Node.js CI/build] π³ docker cp src=/Users/andrewevans/Documents/projects/getting-started-with-act/. dst=/Users/andrewevans/Documents/projects/getting-started-with-act [Node.js CI/build] β Success - Main actions/checkout@v3 [Node.js CI/build] β Run Main Use Node.js 16.x [Node.js CI/build] π³ docker cp src=/Users/andrewevans/.cache/act/actions-setup-node@v3/ dst=/var/run/act/actions/actions-setup-node@v3/ [Node.js CI/build] π³ docker exec cmd=[node /var/run/act/actions/actions-setup-node@v3/dist/setup/index.js] user= workdir= [Node.js CI/build] π¬ ::debug::isExplicit: [Node.js CI/build] π¬ ::debug::explicit? false
- duplicated cache by cache action
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runner image with MS office installed - do-able? is there a better way?
You could try to find some point in the process where you can set up Actions caches with actions/cache, otherwise Container customization for Self-Hosted Runners is currently in Beta.
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[Question] Decrease Docker image's build time
I would configure Github Actions cache so Docker doesn't have to compile all layers from scratch every time
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The strongest principle of the blog's growth lies in the human choice to deploy it
In the copied example, npm caching is done via actions/cache@v2 action. But we can simplify our workflow by dropping this step and using built-in functionality for caching
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How to debug GitHub actions. Real-world example
When it comes to the alternatives to tmate, there is another great debugging tool that you could check out. It is called act and it allows you to run GitHub Actions code on your local machine making debugging even easier. It has its own limitations and some learning curve but overall it is another tool you should use if you canβt fix the CI bugs by connecting directly into the running action with the tmate.
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Using my new Raspberry Pi to run an existing GitHub Action
Link: https://github.com/nektos/act
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Show HN: Open-source x64 and Arm GitHub runners. Reduces GitHub Actions bill 10x
Could you upload your build of GitHub's runner image to Docker Hub?
This would be quite useful for users of other GitHub Actions clones like act [0].
[0]: https://github.com/nektos/act
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Git commit messages are useless
> These kinds of commit messages are typically an indicator of a broken process where somebody needs to commit to see something happen, like a deployment or build process, and aren't able to assert that stuff works locally.
This is one of my biggest pet peeves with services like github actions. Something running locally like "act" [1] isn't sufficient because it doesn't have everything github has and is extra friction anyway to get everyone to use it for testing.
[1] https://github.com/nektos/act
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Essential Command Line Tools for Developers
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Whatβs with DevOps engineers using `make` of all things?
If you use Github actions, act is incredibly useful. It can be used to test your GH actions, but also serves as an interface for running tasks locally.
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Streamlining CI/CD Pipelines with Code: A Developer's Guide
That's something that often is difficult or basically impossible. Except for maybe GitHub actions through Act (https://github.com/nektos/act). I'd still lean to something in the yaml sphere if it eventually would be used in deployment pipelines and such. For example a solution incorporating ansible.
It also seems to me that the argument you make is mostly focused on the building step? Earthly certainly seems focused on that aspect.
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GitHub Actions Are a Problem
I feel I'm being trolled, but I'll bite and accept the resulting downvotes
I don't think treating every mention of act as an opportunity for airing of personal grievances is helpful in a discussion when there's already ample reports of people's concrete issues with it, had one looked at the 800 issues in its repo https://github.com/nektos/act/issues?q=is%3Aissue or the 239 from gitea's for https://gitea.com/gitea/act_runner/issues or whatever is going on with Forgejo's fork https://code.forgejo.org/forgejo/act .
But, as for me specifically, there are two and a half answers: I wanted to run VSCodium's build locally, which act for sure puked about. Then, while trying to troubleshoot that, I thought I'd try something simpler and have it run the lint job from act's own repo <https://github.com/nektos/act/blob/1252e551b8672b1e16dc8835d...> to rule out "you're holding it wrong" type junk. It died with
[checks/lint] Failure - Main actions/setup-go@v3
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How Steve Jobs Saved Apple with the Online Apple Store
https://twitter.com/mitsuhiko/status/1720410479141487099 :
> GitHub Actions currently charges $0.16 per minute* for the macOS M1 Runners. That comes out to $84,096 for 1 machine year*
GitHub Runner is written in Go; it fetches tasks from GitHub Actions and posts the results back to the Pull Request that spawned the build.
nektos/act is how Gitea Actions builds GitHub Actions workflow YAML build definition documents. https://github.com/nektos/act
https://twitter.com/MatthewCroughan/status/17200423527675700... :
> This is the macOS Ventura installer running in 30 VMs, in 30 #nix derivations at once. It gets the installer from Apple, automates the installation using Tesseract OCR and TCL Expect scripts. This is to test the repeatability. A single function call `makeDarwinImage`.
With a Multi-Stage Dockerfile/Containerfild, you can have a dev environment like xcode or gcc+make in the first stage that builds the package, and then the second stage the package is installed and tested, and then the package is signed and published to a package repo / app store / OCI container image repository.
SLSA now specifies builders for signing things correctly in CI builds with keys in RAM on the build workers.
"Build your own SLSA 3+ provenance builder on GitHub Actions" https://slsa.dev/blog/2023/08/bring-your-own-builder-github
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What are some alternatives?
upload-artifact
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]
sccache - Sccache is a ccache-like tool. It is used as a compiler wrapper and avoids compilation when possible. Sccache has the capability to utilize caching in remote storage environments, including various cloud storage options, or alternatively, in local storage.
dagger - Application Delivery as Code that Runs Anywhere
actions-runner-controller - Kubernetes controller for GitHub Actions self-hosted runners
earthly - Super simple build framework with fast, repeatable builds and an instantly familiar syntax β like Dockerfile and Makefile had a baby.
setup-buildx-action - GitHub Action to set up Docker Buildx
action-tmate - Debug your GitHub Actions via SSH by using tmate to get access to the runner system itself.
checkout - Action for checking out a repo
LSPatch - LSPatch: A non-root Xposed framework extending from LSPosed
setup-qemu-action - GitHub Action to install QEMU static binaries
virtual-environments - GitHub Actions runner images [Moved to: https://github.com/actions/runner-images]