#GitHub Actions Feels Bad
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fossil wigeon
TLDW?
ember fractal
TLDW?
GitHub Actions is a spaghetti code mess and is behind the scenes just a reskin of ADO pipelines. It has a ton of easily attackable vectors and 2 is a very different thing than what the original promise/goal was of GHA
fossil wigeon
Oh no, that does not sound nice
proud ridge
GitHub Actions is a spaghetti code mess and is behind the scenes just a reskin o...
what was the original promise?
||btw always preferred gl ci due to its simplicity||
ember fractal
what was the original promise?
||btw always preferred gl ci due to its simplicit...
when github actions was first released (before the microsoft acquisition) it was a means to make it easy to integrate and connect to outside resources to do the things you wanted to do for CI/CD. so it was more an API to make it easy to trigger actions based on things happening in the repo, but it wasn't really meant to be a CI in itself more a way to manage a CI workflow running on a combination of outside services (or your own runner)
more workflow management than CI itself
then microsoft bought it and github actions 2 became a full CI/CD pipeline