Hacker News with Generative AI: GitHub Actions

Show HN: Forge – Secure, Multi-Tenant GitHub Actions Runners on K8s or EC2 (github.com/cisco-open)
Forge is a scalable, secure, and fully automated multi-tenant platform for running ephemeral GitHub Actions runners on AWS — designed for platform teams, by platform engineers.

GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, DevOps, Cloud Computing, Security

13 points by ebrilhante 4 days ago | 5 comments

Run GitHub Actions locally (github.com/nektos)

GitHub Actions, Development, Software, Tools

272 points by flashblaze 7 days ago | 130 comments

We Fixed 2k+ Security Issues (2023) (sudhishkr.com)
In this article we explain our journey towards Continuous Security Audits to detect and remediate potential Security Issues within our OpenSource offerings at Dgraph Labs Inc. As part of this initiative, we have integrated a selection of toolsets that facilitate Continuous Security Audits, leveraging our new CI/CD Setup built upon the robust foundation of GitHub Actions.

Security, Open Source, CI/CD, GitHub Actions

4 points by mooreds 12 days ago | 0 comments

How to harden GitHub Actions (wiz.io)
Build resilient GitHub Actions workflows with lessons from recent attacks.

Security, GitHub Actions, Software Development

218 points by moyer 18 days ago | 71 comments

Gas: Get Action Status A GitHub Actions checker script (github.com)
Instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

GitHub Actions, Software Development, Automation, Scripting, Tools

11 points by twosdai 28 days ago | 3 comments

Any program can be a GitHub Actions shell (yossarian.net)
In GitHub Actions, you can use the shell keyword to specify the shell that runs a given run: block. This keyword is optional for workflows but mandatory for action definitions.

GitHub Actions, Shell Scripting, Software Development, Automation

282 points by woodruffw 46 days ago | 101 comments

Disk I/O bottlenecks in GitHub Actions (depot.dev)
When your CI pipelines are slow, you can only optimize so much. Bottlenecks in CPU, Network, Memory, and Disk I/O can all contribute to slow CI pipelines. Let's take a look at how disk I/O can be a bottleneck in GitHub Actions.

GitHub Actions, CI/CD, Performance Optimization, DevOps, Disk I/O

106 points by jacobwg 56 days ago | 72 comments

Solving the Pain that is CI/CD (dan-manges.com)
Last week, The Pain That Is GitHub Actions was on the front page of Hacker News. It received 700 upvotes and 500+ comments. The pain is widespread, and opinions on how to solve it are highly varied.

CI/CD, DevOps, Software Development, GitHub Actions

11 points by fourteenminutes 58 days ago | 1 comments

Building and Publishing Games to Steam Directly from GitHub Actions (nullonerror.org)
I have been using GitHub Actions extensively both at work and in personal projects, as shown in this post What I’ve been automating with GitHub Actions, an automated life.

Game Development, GitHub Actions, Steam, Automation

47 points by delduca 61 days ago | 19 comments

Ollama Models Atom Feed (simonwillison.net)
simonw/ollama-models-atom-feed. I setup a GitHub Actions + GitHub Pages Atom feed of scraped recent models data from the Ollama latest models page - Ollama remains one of the easiest ways to run models on a laptop so a new model release from them is worth hearing about.

GitHub Actions, Open Source, Artificial Intelligence

50 points by mdp2021 61 days ago | 12 comments

Blueskyfeedbot: Post RSS Feeds to Bluesky via GitHub Actions (github.com/marketplace)
Blueskyfeedbot is a bot that posts RSS feeds to Bluesky via GitHub Actions.

Social Media, GitHub Actions, RSS Feeds, Automation

154 points by hrpnk 114 days ago | 70 comments

Show HN: Actionate – GitHub Actions for JetBrains IDEs (github.com/revenate)
Actionate brings the power of GitHub Actions directly into your JetBrains IDE, creating a unified, all-in-one environment for your development flow.

GitHub Actions, JetBrains IDEs, Development Tools, Software, Productivity

43 points by revenate_ 118 days ago | 13 comments

Show HN: Sticky Disks in GitHub Actions (github.com/useblacksmith)
A GitHub Action that helps persist state written to disk across jobs. This action can serve as a superior alternative to the Actions cache, especially when the cache artifacts are extremely large. Each sticky disk is hot-loaded into the runner and mounted at the specified path. The sticky disk is formatted as an ext4 filesystem.

GitHub Actions, Software Development, Tools, State Management, Disk Persistence

13 points by aayushshah15 127 days ago | 1 comments

Run Database in GitHub Actions, Persisting Data to S3, and Access It Publicly (wesql.io)
When it comes to running a database for development, testing, demos, or short-lived workloads, cost and complexity can be big headaches.

Cloud Computing, Databases, GitHub Actions, DevOps, S3

72 points by earayu 162 days ago | 45 comments

How we made GitHub Actions 2x-10x faster for $3K and one afternoon (strongcompute.com)
Strong Compute cares about response times for developers. If you’re working with GPU clusters - check us out - strongcompute.com. Zero Ops for GPU clusters backed by ultra fast data pipelines.

GitHub Actions, Performance Optimization, Cloud Computing, GPU Clusters

10 points by bensandcastle 218 days ago | 2 comments

How to Deploy Node.js to AWS Lambda with OpenTofu and GitHub Actions (developer-friendly.blog)

Node.js, AWS Lambda, Serverless Computing, DevOps, GitHub Actions

9 points by meysamazad 263 days ago | 6 comments

Show HN: 10x cheaper GitHub Actions on your AWS account (warpbuild.com)

GitHub Actions, Cloud Computing, AWS, Cost Optimization

30 points by suryao 297 days ago | 12 comments

Show HN: Pippy – Pipelines for GitHub Actions (pippy.dev)

GitHub Actions, Automation, Software, Open Source

50 points by awenix 310 days ago | 21 comments

Runs-on: Self hosted, on-premise, GitHub Action runners (runs-on.com)