nektos/act

Bryan Kok

@Transfusion

btw, what extension are you using to validate the yaml file?? it looks so handy!

Cat™

@CatTheHacker

default formatter I have set is redhat.vscode-yaml
but I also have docsmsft.docs-yaml and PascalReitermann93.vscode-yaml-sort

    "[yaml]": {
        "editor.defaultFormatter": "redhat.vscode-yaml",
        "editor.insertSpaces": true,
        "editor.tabSize": 2,
        "editor.quickSuggestions": {
            "other": true,
            "comments": false,
            "strings": true
        },
        "editor.autoIndent": "full"
    },

Karol

@karolswdev

Hey guys. Has anybody had troubles with matrix variables with act? I keep getting the | /github/workflow/10: line 1: ${{matrix.path}}: bad substitution error.

I wonder if this approach is supported at all at the moment?

Karol

@karolswdev

This is because I was using working-directory: ${{matrix.path}}. I did a workaround to do cd $${matrix.path}} && run-whatever-I-want

Cat™

@CatTheHacker

post full workflow

Christophe Lecointe

@christophelec

Hello everyone, I'm having trouble making act work on MacOS. I installed the latest version from brew, and tried to run a few command but they all come back blank, even listing workflows. I have a docker daemon running via Minikube. Any idea what could be the issue here ? I did not find error logs to provide even with -v so far

Christophe Lecointe

@christophelec

Ok, I have things happening by triggering the pull_request event, but I'm not sure why my workflows are not listed when doing a -l ?

Cat™

@CatTheHacker

@christophelec act by default works on workflows with push event

see:
https://github.com/nektos/act#commands
--detect-event Use first event type from workflow as event that triggered the workflow
nektos/act#484

Andrew Hall

@andrewhall-premier

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H i - I'm trying to run act with the ubuntu-18.04 environment, but it's ignoring the parameter and running within buster-slim. Any insight into the problem?

Cat™

@CatTheHacker

@andrewhall-premier check if workflow is using ubuntu-18.04

Andrew Hall

@andrewhall-premier

It uses ubuntu-latest, do I have to peg it to 18.04?

Cat™

@CatTheHacker

or use -P ubuntu-latest=[...]

Andrew Hall

@andrewhall-premier

makes sense, thanks

That worked! Thanks for such a quick response! You've saved me hours!

Cat™

@CatTheHacker

:thumbsup:

Andrew Hall

@andrewhall-premier

IMO, it would be nice to receive a warning message if the specified override doesn't match run value in the workflows file. For a NOOB it was non-obvious

Cat™

@CatTheHacker

I'll see what I can do about it

Andrew Hall

@andrewhall-premier

:thumbsup:

Sven Assmann

@sassman

I wonder, if there was already someone finding or doing a web ui?

Cat™

@CatTheHacker

I'm not aware but that is absolutely worst idea

Sven Assmann

@sassman

How would you keep track of build logs etc? I mean if using act as a build pipeline runner..

Cat™

@CatTheHacker

I read them?

Not sure what you mean

thomascorthals

@thomascorthals

@sassman If you run the workflow on GitHub, you get a nice web UI with access to the build logs.

Cat™

@CatTheHacker

The goal of act is to make sure workflow works, once it works I just push it github and have GH Actions do stuff

from GH Actions you have separation per jobs, workflows, etc.

Sven Assmann

@sassman

Maybe my use case in mind is a bit different from yours. I'm talking about not using github for execution but an own ci - server. Like for example jenkins gives the UI and the runner infrastructure..

sure thing.. not suggesting that this is the act use case at all..

Cat™

@CatTheHacker

If you need to run stuff on demand there is https://agola.io/

Sven Assmann

@sassman

I read it but I think that is something different

Cat™

@CatTheHacker

that's a CI, like Jenkins

Sven Assmann

@sassman

a headless ci

Or am I missing something?

Cat™

@CatTheHacker

I'm quite confused on what are you trying to achieve

Sven Assmann

@sassman

Let me try it differently, let's say I have a github actions pipeline in my repo, but I do not use github, then that's pretty useless, right?

What I can do is use act to run it locally?

Cat™

@CatTheHacker

Technically yes

Sven Assmann

@sassman

cool, so imagine now a 3rd party self hostable thing, that acts as the CI server, get's notified by the repo (on push hook) and used act internally to execute the pipeline.

Cat™

@CatTheHacker

but why

Sven Assmann

@sassman

this thing I'm talking about would have some sort of UI (at least something that Github also shows - like build logs)

well there are a few good reasosn

Cat™

@CatTheHacker

there are so many better solutions already production-ready

Sven Assmann

@sassman

github actions are pretty well known to almost all meanwhile, no new DSL to learn not like Jenkinsfile or travis yml (the adoption rate is higher)

so this thing would have a market. Same as gitlab CI has or Bamboo or you name it

Cat™

@CatTheHacker

good luck trying to sell product that doesn't even work

Sven Assmann

@sassman

any solutions that support github actions pipelines?

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