nektos/act on Hacker News

…out to other stuff in the runner Docker image and report it to the UI would be a nice start. [0]: https://github.com/nektos/act [1]: https://forgejo.org/docs/v15.0/user/actions/github-actions/#... [2]:…

comment by cobertos · 2026-08-17 · in Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

a bold attempt, how does it compare with https://github.com/nektos/act which has been the de-jure project in this space? Act has never been in my opinion super great, but it's also been several years since I've checked in to revisit the…

comment by SOLAR_FIELDS · 2026-08-09 · in Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

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Show HN: Nanci, CI written in plain Python, locally debuggable

story by Hex08 · 2026-05-14 · 0 comments

You can run your own github actions compatible-ish server. https://github.com/nektos/act Personally my favorite is probably drone-ci. I'd suggest not buying in too hard on any one of these CI systems and just writing shell scripts. Shell…

comment by traverseda · 2026-05-06 · in Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions

There is this : https://github.com/nektos/act

comment by LelouBil · 2026-04-28 · in GitHub Actions is the weakest link

How does this use github syntax? Is it via https://github.com/nektos/act or something similar? I have skimmed through the article but I am unsure of how it is a faster CI. Also perhaps Depot should at this point have their own git provider…

comment by Imustaskforhelp · 2026-03-24 · in Now Available: Depot CI

…There are ways to run github actions in forejo as well iirc even on locally hosted which uses https://github.com/nektos/act under the hood. People, the time where you spent hundreds of thousands of dollars and expected basic service and no…

comment by Imustaskforhelp · 2026-03-03 · in GitHub having issues [resolved]

https://github.com/nektos/act Lets you run your actions locally. I've had significant success with it for fast local feedback.

comment by smw · 2026-01-14 · in I hate GitHub Actions with passion

https://github.com/nektos/act

comment by smw · 2026-01-14 · in I hate GitHub Actions with passion

Would something like this help with the feed back loop? https://github.com/nektos/act

comment by bitterbytes · 2026-01-14 · in I hate GitHub Actions with passion

skill issue bro https://github.com/nektos/act

comment by thrown_in_dust · 2026-01-14 · in I hate GitHub Actions with passion

Skill issue bro: https://github.com/nektos/act

comment by thrown_in_dust · 2026-01-14 · in I hate GitHub Actions with passion

do you mean https://github.com/nektos/act or there is something else ?

comment by alfonsodev · 2026-01-14 · in I hate GitHub Actions with passion

…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

comment by Hamuko · 2026-01-14 · in I hate GitHub Actions with passion

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.

comment by spockz · 2026-01-14 · in I hate GitHub Actions with passion

Why SSH to the build agent when you can run your actions locally using the excellent https://github.com/nektos/act

comment by t_tsonev · 2026-01-12 · in Launch a Debugging Terminal into GitHub Actions

…runners just because I do not want to run act on a remote ARM64 server. I was just using act ( https://github.com/nektos/act ) on my local server to build the X64 packages for my project, since I want to streamline it with ARM64 support, I…

comment by mintflow · 2025-12-17 · in Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions

…[1] https://gitea.com/gitea/act / https://gitea.com/gitea/act_runner [2] http://github.com/nektos/act

comment by figmert · 2025-12-17 · in Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions

…by Forgejo actions: https://forgejo.org/docs/latest/user/actions/quick-start/ - both based on https://github.com/nektos/act

comment by croemer · 2025-12-16 · in Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions

…party could handle webhooks, parse the .github/workflows/example.yml, then execute the action via https://github.com/nektos/act (or similar), then post the result.

comment by agartner · 2025-12-16 · in Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions

…owned hardware. The motivation is to fill the gap between local workflow execution by projects like https://github.com/nektos/act and self-hosted runner setups on the cloud. My team’s requirements are simple and we don’t require all the…

comment by vrajat · 2025-12-15 · in Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

…They may need to build proper support for running actions locally -- there is the third-party https://github.com/nektos/act tool which might be a starting point, but that's mostly designed so you can debug actions without having to…

comment by DalekBaldwin · 2025-12-08 · in GitHub Actions has a package manager, and it might be the worst

You should really check out (pun intended) `act` https://github.com/nektos/act

comment by luca616 · 2025-11-18 · in GitHub: Git operation failures

…Gitea Actions and Forgejo Actions build from GitHub Actions YAML with with nektos/act. nektos/act: https://github.com/nektos/act What would be the new commands to locally build from an SRPM and locally sign the built RPM? Gitea/Forgejo has…

comment by westurner · 2025-10-22 · in Forging Fedora's Future with Forgejo

To run your github actions locally, we've had decent success with this tool: https://github.com/nektos/act Just be warned if you try it out that if you don't specify which workflow to run, it will just run them all!

comment by montroser · 2025-10-09 · in Incident with Webhooks

…get a lay of the land. Why is no comparison made with act, same goal and same language? 65k stars. https://github.com/nektos/act

comment by bdhcuidbebe · 2025-09-22 · in Show HN: Gocd – a lightweight Go-based CI/CD tool that runs on your dev machine

…re-implementation of the GHA self-hosted runner in Go for self-hosted runners, based on the popular https://github.com/nektos/act for running GHA locally. Been using this for over a year now and it's been infinitely useful for CI on…

comment by sethops1 · 2025-09-21 · in Node 20 will be deprecated on GitHub Actions runners

I use act to run github CI locally fwiw https://github.com/nektos/act

comment by tough · 2025-07-23 · in Using Radicle CI

Seems like that was also closed for about half a year, maybe GP came across [this discussion]( https://github.com/nektos/act/issues/553#issuecomment-791562... ) during that period and (understandably) came to their conclusion from that.

comment by sundarurfriend · 2025-05-20 · in Run GitHub Actions locally

There's a long-open issue[1] for Podman support. Maybe they're just tired of dups? [1] https://github.com/nektos/act/issues/303

comment by organsnyder · 2025-05-19 · in Run GitHub Actions locally

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story by flashblaze · 2025-05-16 · 133 comments

…at their level, but I think most people would be pretty happy with just a hetzner vm using act https://github.com/nektos/act if they want github actions, or jenkins. I think we can rent hetnzer vms on a per hour basis or maybe we can't ,…

comment by Imustaskforhelp · 2025-05-15 · in How the economics of multitenancy work

…and I will be investing time to using it because it really * hopefully * makes a difference. [1] https://github.com/nektos/act

comment by orliesaurus · 2025-03-20 · in The Pain That Is GitHub Actions

…to be an incredible time-saver when working with GitLab pipelines (similar to https://github.com/nektos/act for GitHub) I wish GitLab/GitHub would provide a way to do this by default, though.

comment by hv42 · 2025-03-20 · in The Pain That Is GitHub Actions

…I don't like. > It doesn't help that you can't really try any of this locally (I know of [act]( https://github.com/nektos/act ) but it only supports a small subset of the things you're trying to do in CI). This is the biggest issue with GH…

comment by joshstrange · 2025-03-20 · in The Pain That Is GitHub Actions

…you to run actions locally. Although not exactly the same as the real thing, it can save time. https://github.com/nektos/act

comment by elAhmo · 2025-03-20 · in The Pain That Is GitHub Actions

…setup that ai hate. I wish if „act“ was a tool directly maintained by the GitHub folks though. https://github.com/nektos/act

comment by larusso · 2025-03-20 · in The Pain That Is GitHub Actions

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story by modinfo · 2025-01-21 · 0 comments

Not sure if I am missing something but you can definitely run (some?) GH actions locally with act: https://github.com/nektos/act Seen a couple posts on here say otherwise.

comment by makingstuffs · 2025-01-20 · in I'll think twice before using GitHub Actions again

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story by mooreds · 2025-01-01 · 0 comments

Have you tried using act for that? https://github.com/nektos/act Has saved me a bunch of CI debug pain.

comment by EionRobb · 2024-06-05 · in Arm64 on GitHub Actions

Link: https://github.com/nektos/act

comment by ivanjermakov · 2024-03-12 · in Using my new Raspberry Pi to run an existing GitHub Action

Not sure if this is what they are using, but this is a way. https://github.com/nektos/act

comment by pjot · 2024-03-12 · in Using my new Raspberry Pi to run an existing GitHub Action

…Docker Hub? This would be quite useful for users of other GitHub Actions clones like act [0]. [0]: https://github.com/nektos/act

comment by maxloh · 2024-01-31 · in Show HN: Open-source x64 and Arm GitHub runners

…laugh out loud! So much related! Ever since I discovered `act` [1], I made a lot less commits. [1]: https://github.com/nektos/act

comment by genzer · 2024-01-26 · in Quicksort with Jenkins for fun and no profit

…have everything github has and is extra friction anyway to get everyone to use it for testing. [1] https://github.com/nektos/act

comment by weikju · 2024-01-26 · in Git commit messages are useless

…that often is difficult or basically impossible. Except for maybe GitHub actions through Act ( https://github.com/nektos/act ). I'd still lean to something in the yaml sphere if it eventually would be used in deployment pipelines and such.…

comment by creesch · 2023-11-21 · in Streamlining CI/CD Pipelines with Code

…ample reports of people's concrete issues with it, had one looked at the 800 issues in its repo https://github.com/nektos/act/issues?q=is%3Aissue or the 239 from gitea's for https://gitea.com/gitea/act_runner/issues or whatever is going on…

comment by mdaniel · 2023-11-13 · in GitHub Actions Are a Problem

You should check out: https://github.com/nektos/act Works pretty well for the actions I have used it on.

comment by slenk · 2023-11-12 · in GitHub Actions Are a Problem

It’s easy to look at the endgame. Just look at the hurdles https://github.com/nektos/act has to work with

comment by SOLAR_FIELDS · 2023-11-12 · in GitHub Actions Are a Problem