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Run your GitHub Actions locally 🚀

111 mentions on Hacker News by 95 people: 13 stories, 98 comments · first 2019-01-15 · latest 2026-08-17

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  1. Why not just use act? It was made for this exact set of problems? https://github.com/nektos/act
    comment by ttfkam · 2023-11-12 · in GitHub Actions Are a Problem
  2. …nektos/act is how Gitea Actions builds GitHub Actions workflow YAML build definition documents. https://github.com/nektos/act From https://twitter.com/MatthewCroughan/status/17200423527675700... : > This is the macOS Ventura installer…
  3. Also this exists: https://github.com/nektos/act which is conveniently packaged in a GH-a-like system by: https://gitea.com/gitea/act_runner in https://github.com/go-gitea
  4. Yes, I have been taking a look at https://github.com/nektos/act which allows running github actions workflow locally. I am investigating if I can integrate it directly in togomak, so that users can reuse existing github action in their…
  5. There are ways to run GHA locally. I've tried out one or two of the tools. [0] - [0] https://github.com/nektos/act
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. …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
  9. 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
  10. …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
  11. …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
  12. 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
  13. …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
  14. …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
  15. 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
  16. …(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…
  17. You can run GitHub workflows locally with act: https://github.com/nektos/act
  18. # 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?
  19. …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…
  20. …//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
  21. …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
  22. 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
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    story by homarp · 2022-11-26 · 151 comments
  24. …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
  25. …with the Dagger API via a Python SDK could be even more convenient, will definitely try! [0]: https://github.com/nektos/act
  26. Alternatively https://docs.dagger.io/1200/local-dev/ https://docs.drone.io/cli/drone-exec/ https://github.com/nektos/act
  27. 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
  28. …-- 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
  29. …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
  30. 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
  31. 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
  32. …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
  33. …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
  34. 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
  35. …+ ./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
  36. …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
  37. …https://github.com/iterative/setup-dvc https://github.com/marketplace/actions/python-linter https://github.com/nektos/act
  38. …is supported. Works a treat better than sending it repeatedly just to test how things behave in CI. https://github.com/nektos/act
  39. …and most niceties, and saves you having to constantly commit and push just to try things. https://github.com/nektos/act
  40. …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
  41. …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
  42. 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
  43. …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
  44. …a simulation, you can use `act` to run GitHub Actions locally. Great for testing before deploying. https://github.com/nektos/act
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    story by gdubya · 2021-08-22 · 4 comments
  46. …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
  47. …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…
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    story by simonpure · 2021-06-25 · 1 comment
  49. I've used https://github.com/nektos/act in the past. It works ok as long as you don't need artifacting.
  50. This project may be able to help you out: https://github.com/nektos/act/ (it provides a way to run GitHub actions locally)