We want to fix GitHub Actions

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  • act

    Run your GitHub Actions locally 🚀

    Yeah, you're right, there is a tool called act[1] that lets users test the GitHub Actions CI runs toward their local machine. The implementation looks very similar to GitHub Actions official runner, e.g use the identical provisioning scripts[2]. It is a very nice tool but serves a different purpose than us.

    Regarding general testability with GitHub Actions, I'd recommend checking out the tmate action[3], which lets you debug your CI run with SSH.

    [1] https://github.com/nektos/act

    [2] https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments

    [3] https://github.com/mxschmitt/action-tmate

  • virtual-environments

    Discontinued GitHub Actions runner images [Moved to: https://github.com/actions/runner-images]

    Yeah, you're right, there is a tool called act[1] that lets users test the GitHub Actions CI runs toward their local machine. The implementation looks very similar to GitHub Actions official runner, e.g use the identical provisioning scripts[2]. It is a very nice tool but serves a different purpose than us.

    Regarding general testability with GitHub Actions, I'd recommend checking out the tmate action[3], which lets you debug your CI run with SSH.

    [1] https://github.com/nektos/act

    [2] https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments

    [3] https://github.com/mxschmitt/action-tmate

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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