Re:The Pain That Is GitHub Actions
by jiggawatts on Friday March 21, 2025 @04:02AM
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At first I assumed you were kidding, then I realised that sadly… you probably weren’t.
I wasn’t. This goes to show that when all you have is a YAML hammer, every problem has to look like a YAML-able nail. Still there would be people who would say I’m “blaming my tools” and “everything is covered in chapter 1 of yaml for dummies.”
A: Easy! You just spin up a Kubernetes pod with Alpine image, map a couple of files inside, run a bash script of "date" with some parameters, redirect output to a mapped file, and then read the resulting file. That's all. Here's a YAML for you. Configuration, baby!
(based on actual events)