github-action-tester vs turnstyle

github-action-tester

Run tests when pull-requests are opened, or commits pushed. (by skx)

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🎟️A GitHub Action for serializing workflow runs (by softprops)

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github-action-tester		turnstyle
	Project
1	Mentions	2
26	Stars	286
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	2.3
almost 4 years ago	Latest Commit	3 months ago
Shell	Language	TypeScript
-	License	MIT License

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github-action-tester

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GitHub Actions Limitations and Gotchas
19 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Sep 2021

To be honest I've always found the best approach with most of these systems is to checking your magic as shell-scripts inside your repository.
Then you're much much more portable. Want to run tests? Run ".ci/tests.sh", want to generate artifacts "make", or ".ci/build.sh".
All systems, be they github actions, jenkins, gitlab-runners, and everything else allow you to clone/update your repository and run something from within it. Which keeps things mostly portable.
I put together a simple github action a long time ago, but now of course I realize it is overkill:
https://github.com/skx/github-action-tester/

turnstyle

Posts with mentions or reviews of turnstyle. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-08.

GitHub Actions Limitations and Gotchas
19 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Sep 2021

Turnstyle?
We've had similar issues with Terraform deployments.
https://github.com/softprops/turnstyle
Preventing concurrent GitHub Actions
3 projects | dev.to | 13 Jun 2021

A number of 3rd party solutions exist, but these introduce additional waiting costs or other issues. For one of my projects, I host a lock-service, just to force concurrent workflows to exit quietly, and then auto-trigger re-runs.