I Hate GitHub Actions with Passion

https://xlii.space/eng/i-hate-github-actions-with-passion/

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spockz•18m ago

Would a tool like act help here? (https://github.com/nektos/act) I suppose orchestration that is hiding things from different processor architectures could also very well run differently online than offline, but still.

Hamuko•18m ago

>Now of course, in some Perfect World, GitHub could have a local runner with all the bells and whistles.

Not by GitHub, but isn't act supposed to be that?

https://github.com/nektos/act

iamcalledrob•13m ago

  > For the love of all that is holy, don’t let GitHub Actions
  > manage your logic. Keep your scripts under your own damn
  > control and just make the Actions call them!

The pain is real. I think everyone that's ever used GitHub actions has come to this conclusion. An ideal action has 2 steps: (1) check out the code, (2) invoke a sane script that you can test locally.

Honestly, I wonder if a better workflow definition would just have a single input: a single command to run. Remove the temptation to actually put logic in the actions workflow.

worldsayshi•11m ago

> I think everyone that's ever used GitHub actions has come to this conclusion.

I agree that that should be reasonable but unfortunately I can tell you that not all developers (including seniors) naturally arrive at such conclusion no.

ImHereToVote•6m ago

I thought that's how actions are supposed to work. Python is king. Just use the Actions script to feed your variables.

Conan_Kudo•6m ago

This is basically how most other CI systems work. GitLab CI, Jenkins, Buildbot, Cirrus CI, etc. are all other systems I've used and they work this way.

I find GitHub Actions abhorrent in a way that I never found a CI/CD system before...

btreecat•4m ago

This is how we did things with Jenkins and gitlab runners before, idk why folks would do it differently for GHA.

If you can't run the same scripts locally (minus external hosted service/API) then how do you debug them w/o running the whole pipeline?

frankwiles•12m ago

I actually built the last thing last weekend weirdly enough.

gg watch action

Finds the most recent of currently running action for the branch you have checked out. Among other things.

https://github.com/frankwiles/gg

n0us•9m ago

Skill issue

bryanrasmussen•4m ago

is it your contention that once anybody becomes sufficiently skillful with a technology they will come to love it? And thus stating that one does not love the specific technology demonstrates the lack of skill?

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