gh-actions-local-poc-act

Trying out https://github.com/nektos/act to run GitHub Actions Locally 🚀

How to Run?

Install act using brew

brew install act

Go to a repo with .github/workflows , create a workflow. This repo is a good starting point!

Run act in the directory with the workflow files.

act

A prompt asks to select the resource/size of the image to run act on. Micro should be fine.

? Please choose the default image you want to use with act:

  - Large size image: +20GB Docker image, includes almost all tools used on GitHub Actions (IMPORTANT: currently only ubuntu-18.04 platform is available)
  - Medium size image: ~500MB, includes only necessary tools to bootstrap actions and aims to be compatible with all actions
  - Micro size image: <200MB, contains only NodeJS required to bootstrap actions, doesn't work with all actions

The server now be should run on docker. Docker must be Running.

To see the the logs run

act -v

To See the Graph of the Workflow

act -g

See more here - https://github.com/nektos/act#example-commands

Known Issues

• While setting up go and dependancies, there were some ca-caertificate error and if any package requires C , GCC Compiler also needs to be configured, hence the apt-get's