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40 | 15 | |
4,250 | 1,673 | |
2.4% | 1.3% | |
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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.
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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
➜ getting-started-with-act git:(master) act -j build WARN ⚠ 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'. ⚠ [Node.js CI/build] 🚀 Start image=node:16-buster-slim [Node.js CI/build] 🐳 docker pull image=node:16-buster-slim platform= username= forcePull=false [Node.js CI/build] 🐳 docker create image=node:16-buster-slim platform= entrypoint=["tail" "-f" "/dev/null"] cmd=[] [Node.js CI/build] 🐳 docker run image=node:16-buster-slim platform= entrypoint=["tail" "-f" "/dev/null"] cmd=[] [Node.js CI/build] ☁ git clone 'https://github.com/actions/setup-node' # ref=v3 [Node.js CI/build] ☁ git clone 'https://github.com/actions/cache' # ref=v3 [Node.js CI/build] ☁ git clone 'https://github.com/actions/upload-artifact' # ref=v3 [Node.js CI/build] ⭐ Run Main actions/checkout@v3 [Node.js CI/build] 🐳 docker cp src=/Users/andrewevans/Documents/projects/getting-started-with-act/. dst=/Users/andrewevans/Documents/projects/getting-started-with-act [Node.js CI/build] ✅ Success - Main actions/checkout@v3 [Node.js CI/build] ⭐ Run Main Use Node.js 16.x [Node.js CI/build] 🐳 docker cp src=/Users/andrewevans/.cache/act/actions-setup-node@v3/ dst=/var/run/act/actions/actions-setup-node@v3/ [Node.js CI/build] 🐳 docker exec cmd=[node /var/run/act/actions/actions-setup-node@v3/dist/setup/index.js] user= workdir= [Node.js CI/build] 💬 ::debug::isExplicit: [Node.js CI/build] 💬 ::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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GitHub Actions Are a Problem
> GitHub Actions is based on Visual Studio Team Foundation Server's CI, and later Azure DevOps
Yes and no, ADO Agent (https://github.com/microsoft/azure-pipelines-agent) is far more secretive and "black-box" alike.
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GitHub Actions could be so much better
Fun fact: Microsoft had a plan to provide that!
They canned it.
https://github.com/microsoft/azure-pipelines-agent/pull/2687...
- Self-hosted Devops agent: managed ID?
- Can anyone help me out
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Pipeline to spawn build agent on Azure
You will need to download the agent (https://github.com/microsoft/azure-pipelines-agent/releases/latest ) and run the configure command.
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Azure Pipelines - Node.js 16 and custom pipelines task extensions
A GitHub issue was opened to track support for different Node versions with custom tasks, but it remained unresolved for a long time. In October 2022 it was announced that Node.js 16 support was available.
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AZ Modules gone on MS Hosted Devops Agents?
Even thought im in the EU datacenter, my hosted agent is version 2.213.2, which is also the latest version of the agent taht was released by MS - https://github.com/microsoft/azure-pipelines-agent
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Hosting Azure DevOps Pipelines agents on GitHub Codespaces
{ "name": "AzurePipelines", "dockerFile": "Dockerfile", // Configure tool-specific properties. "customizations": { // Configure properties specific to VS Code. "vscode": { // Add the IDs of extensions you want installed when the container is created. "extensions": [ "ms-vscode.azurecli", "ms-vscode.powershell", "hashicorp.terraform", "esbenp.prettier-vscode", "tfsec.tfsec" ] } }, // Use 'forwardPorts' to make a list of ports inside the container available locally. // "forwardPorts": [], // Use 'postStartCommand' to run commands each time the container is successfully started.. "postStartCommand": "/home/vscode/azure-pipelines/start.sh", // Comment out to connect as root instead. More info: https://aka.ms/vscode-remote/containers/non-root. "remoteUser": "vscode", // Amend Azure Pipelines agent version and arch type with 'ARCH' and 'AGENT_VERSION'. https://github.com/microsoft/azure-pipelines-agent/releases. "build": { "args": { "UPGRADE_PACKAGES": "true", "ARCH": "x64", "AGENT_VERSION": "2.206.1" } }, "features": { "terraform": "latest", "azure-cli": "latest", "git-lfs": "latest", "github-cli": "latest", "powershell": "latest" } }
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Unpopular opinion: As a hobbyist and professional, I kind of prefer Azure DevOps.
Looks like they are working on it:https://github.com/microsoft/azure-pipelines-agent/issues/3922
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ADO pipelines not rendering PS 7.2 new color escape sequences
Thanks for sharing this. As mentioned in this GitHub issue, the build pipeline does render PS 7.2 new color escape sequences, however release pipeline does not.
What are some alternatives?
upload-artifact
actions-runner-controller - Kubernetes controller for GitHub Actions self-hosted runners
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.
runner - The Runner for GitHub Actions :rocket:
act - Run your GitHub Actions locally 🚀
github-act-runner - act as self-hosted runner
auth - A GitHub Action for authenticating to Google Cloud.
setup-buildx-action - GitHub Action to set up Docker Buildx
checkout - Action for checking out a repo
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