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- Microsoft cancels plans for Python packages on GitHub
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Github will unfortunately not provide a helm repository in the future.
Same message as for PyPI compatible package registry: https://github.com/github/roadmap/issues/94
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GitHub support for PHP Packages: “no longer planned”
Yeah I had to look around a bit but yep… https://github.com/github/roadmap/issues/94
It looks like a lot of things have been killed… which with my cynical hat on I think might have something to do with overlapping capabilities with Azure services.
- GitHub Packages no longer planning Python PyPI support
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How do you debug CI/CD pipelines? Breakpoints?
Others have mentioned tmate to SSH into a running GitHub Actions workflow; there is a roadmap issue making that functionality built-in to Actions, planned for 2023/Q4.
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GitHub Actions is Vulnerable to Supply Chain Attacks
Immutable actions are on GitHub's roadmap.
- How to manage large GitHub orgs?
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Which role does Github Actions currently play in MLOps?
I think not yet, but seems to be in the roadmap
- Developing for M1/M2 without a Mac
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Workaround for organisational (internal) multi-repo sharing of npm packages
Any ideas how to solve this? Github already released information on a certain feature they will be developing in the future, but do you know any workarounds for now? Do I need to use an external package registry and use registry hosting service that allows me to modify the accessibility permission? Which do exist?
jenkins-std-lib
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The worst thing about Jenkins is that it works
> On a previous team I had used Concourse CI to some extent, but I wasn’t really blown away by the experience. Travis and Circle were mentioned. I was a fool. I should have committed to seriously researching some of the contenders and making a more informed decision, but I lacked the willpower and the discernment.
The whole post can be summed up as he had very little CICD experience. Made lots of beginner mistakes, which is easy to do in Jenkins. Then decided to write a post where all his complaints about Jenkins are not only wrong but are the issues that plague all the other CICD tools.
> So instead of writing Bash directly, you’re writing Bash inside Groovy
Why are you doing that? You have a fully featured programming language and you are running `sh('npm install')`. You could do this instead https://github.com/DontShaveTheYak/jenkins-std-lib/blob/mast... . How is bash inside of YAML better?
> The trouble is: Groovy is a much, much worse language for executing commands than Bash. Bash is interpreted, has a REPL that is great for experimentation, does require a ton of imports, and has lightweight syntax. Groovy has none of these things.
Groovy has a language server, linters and a vscode IDE plugins. They are probably not as stable or full featured as the bash ones, but they are available and very few take advantage of them. Again, how is YAML+Bash better?
> The way that developers test their Groovy steps is by triggering a job on the remote Jenkins server to run them. The feedback loop is 2 orders of magnitude slower than it is for just executing Bash locally.
This is a rookie mistake. For about 60-75% of pipelines you can run them locally in a docker container on your local machine. You can even set up hot code reload so as you change your pipeline the Jenkins reloads it. You can also configure the job to kick off a build when it reloads the code. When Jenkins is configured correctly it has the fastest feedback loop of any CICD tool on the market. GitHub actions comes in a close second since it can also be run locally but you cant run a "clone" of what you run in production, like having the same secrets, so it gets second place. Beside Jenkins and GitHub actions, I dont know of any solutions for the other tools.
You can run a GitHub action on Jenkins. It's a very deep and complex system. It's like an iceberg and so many engineers dont leave the surface before deciding it sucks and one of the YAML CICD tools is better. Sure the YAML alternatives are EASY to get started with and to do basic stuff with. But they are Terrible at anything complex. While Jenkins is not easy to get started with, once mastered, you can build complex pipelines with ease.
I get that I'm a Jenkins fanboy. Most of the things I mentioned above, I either contribute to or I'm the author of. I know Jenkins has issues. I know it has hurt lots of people, I read the complaints online. But it's still the best out there. The best software in the world is not written in bash or yaml and the same is true of the best CICD pipelines in the world. It's a shame very few people get to see/use those pipelines.
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GitHub actions top alternatives
With Jenkins you can still run your favorite GitHub actions. https://github.com/DontShaveTheYak/jenkins-std-lib/blob/master/jobs/github/actions/step_example.groovy
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Looking for a speaker on a panel on "how to make the most of Jenkins", pm me if interested
This library has a lot of helpful features https://github.com/DontShaveTheYak/jenkins-std-lib , one of my favorites is being able to run GitHub actions natively in Jenkins pipelines.
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Jenkins in kubernetes without docker
Here is an example using s6 overlay https://github.com/DontShaveTheYak/jenkins-std-lib/tree/master/docker/prod
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Which CICD Pipeline is the least hardest to develop from
Run a Jenkins locally in docker. I use a vscode dev container for this. https://github.com/DontShaveTheYak/jenkins-std-lib/blob/master/.devcontainer/devcontainer.json
- What CICD tool do you guys use?
- Ask HN: Where are all the Show HNs?
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The worse production code you have ever seen
I do my best https://github.com/DontShaveTheYak/jenkins-std-lib
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GitHub Actions Limitations and Gotchas
If you use Jenkins and want to try actions then check out https://github.com/DontShaveTheYak/jenkins-std-lib
It let's you run actions on top of Jenkins.
- GitHub actions down for some users
What are some alternatives?
plantuml - Generate diagrams from textual description
AutoHotkey - AutoHotkey - macro-creation and automation-oriented scripting utility for Windows.
trufflehog - Find and verify credentials
hbr - handbrake runner - runs HandBrakeCLI with settings specified in a keyfile. Allows for repeatable and easily modified encoding.
act - Run your GitHub Actions locally 🚀
cache - Cache dependencies and build outputs in GitHub Actions
gitlab
xmonad - The core of xmonad, a small but functional ICCCM-compliant tiling window manager
dependabot-core - 🤖 Dependabot's core logic for creating update PR's.
source-to-image - A tool for building artifacts from source and injecting into container images
actions-runner-controller - Kubernetes controller for GitHub Actions self-hosted runners