🚀 Smarter CI with GitHub Actions Cache for Ansible (aka “Stop Downloading the Internet”)
Mood: Slightly annoyed at CI pipelines 🧨CI runs shouldn't feel like molasses. Here's how I got Ansible to stop downloading the internet. You're welcome. Let’s get one thing straight: nobody likes waiting on CI.Not you. Not me. Not even the coffee you brewed while waiting for Galaxy roles to install — again. So I said “nope” and made it snappy. Enter: GitHub Actions Cache + Ansible + a generous helping of grit and retries. 🧙♂️ Why cache your Ansible Galaxy […]#githubworkflows
I’ve quite a lengthy experience with #GitHubWorkflows, but not up to the point where I can claim I’m an expert. However, I recently developed a new workflow, and it prompted me to write this post. Feel free to add your own.
GitHub workflows #TipsAndTricks
I'll be next week at @voxxed_lu to present a new talk about end-to-end Pull Request #testing when your target environment is #Kubernetes.
Come and let's chat!
I always find it a bit confusing to create workflows in GitHub, but when there, they can be really helpful, so I keep on struggling. For @govdirectory I just tried to make the script that checks that the results of a query matches the expected count to run when someone makes a count that changes one or more of those queries: https://github.com/govdirectory/website/pull/450
Mitigating Attack Vectors in GitHub Workflows: https://openssf.org/blog/2024/08/12/mitigating-attack-vectors-in-github-workflows/
Periodic reminder that #programming in #yaml is the absolute worst. #ansible #github #githubworkflows #devops
Thanks to #AutoDeploy with #GithubWorkflows I did a month ago, and after introducing the concept of #GitHub to my girlfriend, she’s able to correct my typos in our websites without any knowledge in server, #Hugo, #HTML, #CSS or even deployment. 🙂
(And she don’t need me for it!)
#IndieDev
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