GitHub Actions could be so much better

Re:GitHub Actions could be so much better by withinboredom on Friday September 22, 2023 @07:05PM (#37618937)

I appreciate this perspective, however, after spending 6mo on a project that went (2) all the way, never again. CI/CD SHOULD NOT be using the same scripts you build with locally. Now, we have a commit that every dev must apply to the makefile to build locally, and if you accidentally push it, CI/CD will blow up (requiring an interactive rebase before every push). However, you can’t build locally without that commit.

I won’t go into the details on why it’s this way (build chain madness). It’s stupid and necessary.

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Re:GitHub Actions could be so much better by Tainnor on Friday September 22, 2023 @07:13PM (#37618996)

This comment is hard to address without understanding the details of your project, but I will at least say that it doesn't mirror my experience.

Generally, I would use the same tools (e.g. ./gradlew build or docker build) to build stuff locally as on CI, and config params are typically enough to distinguish what needs to be different.

My CI scripts still tend up to be more complicated than I'd like to (due to things like caching, artifacts, code insights, triggers, etc.), but the main build logic at least is extracted.

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Re:GitHub Actions could be so much better by SAI_Peregrinus on Saturday September 23, 2023 @12:12AM (#37620526)

Agreed. I want my builds reproducible. The CI binaries should be bit-for-bit identical to the locally-built ones.

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