Running Github Actions On Local Machine.

Github Action is one heck of the CI, but you want to create a new CI/CD pipeline in Github. The only way to test is the making push or pull requests to the respective repository.

What if I tell you there is one more way to test run Github actions.

For Mac, it is a straightforward install.

It will download and install the dependencies for the local run. To use it in a repository, clone the repo on the local machine

Once it is installed, go to the root directory. We can start experimenting with stuff like total steps in the workflow. I have only step workflow to show which GitHub provides. So it is showing as stage 0.

the act is the command used to run the workflow. It will ask for the image that you want to use to run the workflow. Please choose an image as per your requirement. More details are mentioned in that repo’s README.

For help, it is command act-h

To run the workflow as a dry run, it is act-n. The successful output looks like this.

To run the workflow, you just need the act command. it would work like this.

What if there is a failure in the script? It can show the same in the run. I purposefully changed some variables in the script.

This is an awesome tool while developing CI/CD pipelines scripts on the local machines. Just give it a try.

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