Re:The Pain That Is GitHub Actions
by makeitdouble on Thursday March 20, 2025 @06:03AM
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> * Invest time that your pipelines can run locally on a developer machine as well (as much as possible at least), otherwise testing/debugging pipelines becomes a nightmare.
Yes, a thousand time.
Deploy scripts are tougher to deal with, as they'll naturally rely on a flurry of environment variables, protected credentials etc.
But for everything else writing the script for local execution first, and generalizating them for CI one they run well enough is the absolute best approach. It doesn't even need to run in the local shell, having all the CI stuff in a dedicated docker image is fine if it requires specific libraries or env.
Yes, a thousand time.
Deploy scripts are tougher to deal with, as they'll naturally rely on a flurry of environment variables, protected credentials etc.
But for everything else writing the script for local execution first, and generalizating them for CI one they run well enough is the absolute best approach. It doesn't even need to run in the local shell, having all the CI stuff in a dedicated docker image is fine if it requires specific libraries or env.