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There are ways to run GHA locally. I've tried out one or two of the tools. [0] - [0] https://github.com/nektos/act

comment by all2 · 2023-09-23 · in GitHub Actions could be so much better

Act can do most of it locally https://github.com/nektos/act

comment by bdcravens · 2023-09-22 · in GitHub Actions could be so much better

Check this out. It doesn't do everything but it's decent https://github.com/nektos/act

comment by hahn-kev · 2023-09-22 · in GitHub Actions could be so much better

…nektos/act[^1], which aims to duplicate GHA behavior locally, but I haven't tried it yet. [^1]: https://github.com/nektos/act

comment by dmtryshmtv · 2023-09-22 · in GitHub Actions could be so much better

act would also be helpful here in terms of debugging and development of Actions workflows. https://github.com/nektos/act

comment by bastardoperator · 2023-09-22 · in GitHub Actions could be so much better

…are failing or passing without pushing to git first using our Garden Workflows. We're OSS. [2] [1] https://github.com/nektos/act [2] https://docs.garden.io

comment by tao_at_garden · 2023-09-22 · in GitHub Actions could be so much better

…that tries to solve this, but this has been an issue with CI systems since they were invented. [0] https://github.com/nektos/act

comment by vegardx · 2023-09-22 · in GitHub Actions could be so much better

I feel you on that one. There is also Act ( https://github.com/nektos/act ) and Dagger.io.

comment by ianwalter · 2023-09-12 · in We built the fastest CI and it failed

…I think we just polled GitHub for changes instead of doing the web hook, but it's a similar effect. https://github.com/nektos/act

comment by 8organicbits · 2023-06-13 · in Use GitHub Hook When GitHub Actions Get Painful to Troubleshoot

…if this could be used locally for an on-workstation or on-prem setup. Perhaps with something like https://github.com/nektos/act

comment by moondev · 2023-03-30 · in GitHub Actions Extension for VSCode

I think this is the PR: https://github.com/nektos/act/pull/1293 This is perfect for my needs. Thank you to the Gitea folks for getting this added/integrated!

comment by candiddevmike · 2023-03-20 · in Gitea 1.19

…(eg `${{ var.DEPLOY_SPECIFIC_ENV_VAR }}`) and only recently added support for reusable workflows ( https://github.com/nektos/act/issues/826 ). It looks like fine software and the maintainers deserve praise for their work but it's not yet a…

comment by adrienthebo · 2023-02-01 · in Release engineering is exhausting so here's cargo-dist

You can run GitHub workflows locally with act: https://github.com/nektos/act

comment by sedatk · 2023-02-01 · in Release engineering is exhausting so here's cargo-dist

# Work - https://gitea.io (repos) - https://discourse.org (forums) - https://github.com/nektos/act (CI) - https://www.goatcounter.com (analytics) - https://bestpractical.com/request-tracker (support) - https://couchdb.apache.org (a slave…

comment by MrOwnPut · 2023-01-06 · in Ask HN: What's on your home server?

…docker/Podman socket) to check whether you get the exact same build artifacts as the CI build farm https://github.com/nektos/act A Multi-stage Dockerfile has multiple FROM instructions: you can build 1) a container for running the build…

comment by westurner · 2023-01-01 · in Python malware starting to employ anti-debug techniques

…//gitea.com/gitea/act/compare/nektos/master...main (although, as one might expect, upstream act is on https://github.com/nektos/act/commit/4989f444f1085ac0ec6b9bc... but their branch is only on https://gitea.com/gitea/act/commit/7754ba7fcf3…

comment by mdaniel · 2022-12-20 · in Feature Preview: Gitea Actions

…that will allow you to ssh into a runner, but I haven't had a need for them as of yet. [1] https://github.com/nektos/act

comment by mjlawson · 2022-12-08 · in Tell HN: Travis CI is seemingly compromised (once again)

Yeah, 60GB (“big”) and there is a “large” act’s Docker image whose size is 16GB: https://github.com/nektos/act/issues/107#issuecomment-760376...

comment by rebyn · 2022-11-26 · in Act: Run your GitHub Actions locally

…migrate your github projects to self-hosted and still support something like woodpecker ci. [1]: https://github.com/nektos/act

comment by sandreas · 2022-11-26 · in Forgejo – Launching a Fork of Gitea

…with the Dagger API via a Python SDK could be even more convenient, will definitely try! [0]: https://github.com/nektos/act

comment by tatoalo · 2022-11-10 · in Dagger Python SDK: Develop Your CI/CD Pipelines as Code

Alternatively https://docs.dagger.io/1200/local-dev/ https://docs.drone.io/cli/drone-exec/ https://github.com/nektos/act

comment by endigma · 2022-09-26 · in Deployment and infrastructure for a bootstrapped webapp with 150k monthly visits

If you want to run github actions locally before any pitfalls, you can try out https://github.com/nektos/act

comment by sandreas · 2022-09-26 · in GitHub Actions Pitfalls

…-- to say nothing of GitHub Actions just straight up ignoring that whole demographic and hoping https://github.com/nektos/act emulates enough to have people not notice the massive feature gap

comment by mdaniel · 2022-07-26 · in CircleCI Announces Support for Gitlab

…GitHub repository (a project that allows developers to run GitHub Actions workflows locally): https://github.com/nektos/act/issues/235

comment by jka · 2022-07-03 · in The End of CI

For now you can just host GitHub Actions locally. https://github.com/nektos/act

comment by dicknuckle · 2022-06-13 · in GitHub actions is down

Not that it's in any way official, however you can run Github Actions locally with https://github.com/nektos/act

comment by Benjamin_Dobell · 2022-06-01 · in GitHub Actions was having an outage

…automation and it was super frustrating. There's no official way to run/test this locally (there's https://github.com/nektos/act which doesn't replicate a lot of features) so you end up editing-saving-pushing-waiting-diagnosing (e.g. even…

comment by seanwilson · 2022-04-24 · in Software Mise En Place

…MS bought GH, I had hopes that they would build a tool to run action locally, but nothing yet. [0] https://github.com/nektos/act

comment by lapser · 2022-04-05 · in We use GitHub Actions to build GitHub

You can run github actions offline https://github.com/nektos/act I don't think github is trying to create lock-in, I think rather they were trying to make a way to easily share actions (not sure what other CIs systems are designed to have…

comment by greggman3 · 2022-03-22 · in GitHub Incident

…+ ./tests.py, with a Redis sidecar. This seems to be because services are not supported in `act`: https://github.com/nektos/act/issues/173

comment by thamer · 2022-01-25 · in GitHub Actions by Example

…project recently, being able to run actions locally with act[1] was a great time saver for me: [1] https://github.com/nektos/act

comment by natrys · 2022-01-24 · in GitHub Actions by Example

…https://github.com/iterative/setup-dvc https://github.com/marketplace/actions/python-linter https://github.com/nektos/act

comment by kortex · 2021-12-21 · in Pre-commit: framework for managing/maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks

…is supported. Works a treat better than sending it repeatedly just to test how things behave in CI. https://github.com/nektos/act

comment by kortex · 2021-12-21 · in Pre-commit: framework for managing/maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks

…and most niceties, and saves you having to constantly commit and push just to try things. https://github.com/nektos/act

comment by kortex · 2021-11-19 · in Advanced workflow automation features 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

comment by thinkafterbef · 2021-10-13 · in We want to fix GitHub Actions

…temporarily restricted! By the way, just discovered a nice library to test GitHub Actions locally: https://github.com/nektos/act

comment by hivacruz · 2021-10-05 · in GitHub Having Issues

I've never used it myself, but you're probably thinking of this: https://github.com/nektos/act

comment by Pathogen-David · 2021-09-08 · in GitHub Actions limitations and gotchas

…setup an ACT container so you can test GitHub Action changes locally before pushing them too (see https://github.com/nektos/act ) > Out of curiosity, how reliable do you find the environment cleanup is? So far, environment cleanup has been…

comment by cebert · 2021-09-08 · in GitHub Actions limitations and gotchas

…a simulation, you can use `act` to run GitHub Actions locally. Great for testing before deploying. https://github.com/nektos/act

comment by fieu · 2021-09-06 · in A curated list of actions to use on GitHub

…act which allows you to run github actions locally, this is typically how I do actions development: https://github.com/nektos/act I'm curious what prevents you from writing your own actions in typescript now?

comment by bastardoperator · 2021-08-19 · in Automating a Software Company with GitHub Actions

…Incidents like this make me want to self-host our CI/CD. I'm confused as to the difference between https://github.com/nektos/act and https://github.com/actions/runner Is it not possible to use 'runner' to run github actions locally? The…

comment by nightowl_games · 2021-08-10 · in Incident with GitHub Actions, API Requests, Git Operations, Issues and more

I've used https://github.com/nektos/act in the past. It works ok as long as you don't need artifacting.

comment by ollien · 2021-04-15 · in Work with GitHub Actions in Your Terminal with GitHub CLI

This project may be able to help you out: https://github.com/nektos/act/ (it provides a way to run GitHub actions locally)

comment by jka · 2021-04-15 · in Work with GitHub Actions in Your Terminal with GitHub CLI

…not require third-party tools/actions, though. [1]: https://github.com/mxschmitt/action-tmate [2]: https://github.com/nektos/act

comment by degraafc · 2021-04-15 · in Work with GitHub Actions in Your Terminal with GitHub CLI

…say for the most part it behaved sanely; did you report your complaints to their issue tracker? 0 = https://github.com/nektos/act

comment by mdaniel · 2021-02-24 · in Show HN: Test your Gitlab CI Pipelines changes locally using Docker

…said, how does this differ from something like act [1] (besides the fact this is for Gitlab)? [1] https://github.com/nektos/act

comment by Tyrubias · 2021-02-24 · in Show HN: Test your Gitlab CI Pipelines changes locally using Docker

…There's act[0] for github which I should use more often to solve this, but I usually forget [0]: https://github.com/nektos/act

comment by conradludgate · 2021-02-24 · in Show HN: Test your Gitlab CI Pipelines changes locally using Docker

You might find some success with one of these projects: * https://github.com/nektos/act * https://github.com/phishy/wflow

comment by abatilo · 2020-03-29 · in Show HN: ActionsPanel – Manually Trigger Your GitHub Actions