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louib | 6 years ago

I had to setup CI for a GitHub open source project recently, and decided to give GitHub Actions a try. I have to say it's pretty nice to have the CI directly handled by GH (GitLab has been doing it for years, I know...). I hope it's gonna help some open source projects to easily add CI validations to their PR workflow.

That being said, there was only Ubuntu images for the Linux builds, and I'm not aware of a way to run custom containers at the moment.

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reilly3000|6 years ago

Most of the Actions are actually custom containers. So to run your own code you can just make an action, which isn't that complex.

ethomson|6 years ago

PM for GitHub Actions here. I wouldn't suggest that you build an action to run a build within a container. We offer container support for workflow runs which should be suitable for this. (Either by specifying the `jobs.<job-id>.container` or by using `docker run ...`)

Actions themselves are meant to support the workflow and distill a set of complex steps into something that can be done in a single workflow command. (For example, download and set up a new version of a Java JDK.) They're meant to be used as steps in many peoples workflows, instead of executing a single workflow.

The actions themselves can be built as either a container, which is self-contained, or as JavaScript. I often recommend the latter, since that will work cross platform (containers only work for people who are using workflows running on Linux).

ethomson|6 years ago

Indeed, GitHub Actions only has ubuntu virtual machines, but you can run a custom container with the `jobs.<job-id>.container` specifier.